The wait is finally over as the last two remaining fighters will square for 'The Contender' Season Two championship on Tuesday night from the Staples Center in Los Angeles. It will be two veterans squaring off for the biggest payday of their careers when Steve Forbes meets Grady Brewer in the 10 round main event.

    For Steve Forbes, it has been a career filled with accomplishments, including a world title. In December of 2000 Forbes won the IBF junior lightweight title from John 'The Beast from the East' Brown, and in August of 2002 Forbes lost the belt on the scales when he faced David Santos. Steve has fought at higher weights since, but has not been able to win any more titles. He came up short at 135 lbs., losing to Carlos Hernandez, (October 2003), and lost in another shot to Thailand's Yodsanan '3-K Battery' Nanthachai. Through his long career, Forbes has never fought for half-a-million dollars like he will on Tuesday night. Forbes was hoping that joining the Contender might re-ignite his career, and it's done just that. He can kick it up a notch with another win on Tuesday.

    Forbes entered the show as one of the favorites to win, but unlike the other favorites (Michael Clark, Ebo Elder) he survived the first round and two additional fights and will now be fighting for the title. The show was a bit of a risk for Forbes, because he had fought most of his career at lightweight, and had just begun fighting at 140. He would now have to fight at 147, against bigger guys, some of whom had came down in weight from 154, like his semi-final opponent Cornelius Bundrage.

    Another risky factor for Forbes was the show's 5 round format. Forbes is not a hard puncher, more of a slick boxer who is used to going more rounds. He had to change his style a bit, and be more offensive minded. Forbes has usually been a slow starter, and probably lost the first round in all of his fights on the show. But, as Forbes put it, he was able to dig deep and find ways to win the fight late. Now he will be fighting for the biggest purse of his career against a very hungry fighter in Grady Brewer, who has also came up the hard way. Forbes has defeated Freddy Curiel, Nick Acevedo, and Cornelius Bundrage to get to this point.

   Grady Brewer has lived the journeyman's lifestyle as a boxer; he is respected by all because he has taken on just about everybody, (including Jermain Taylor, Jose Luis Zertuche, and Marco Antonio Rubio), usually on short notice. He handed Anthony Thompson his first loss, after 'The Messenger' had won 15 straight.