Get late breaking Pacquiao Vs Margarito information right here.Watch Pacquiao vs Margarito,Pacquiao vs Margarito Live Online,Pacquiao vs Margarito Live Streaming,Pacquiao vs Margarito Replay.Here we are, in Texas, of all places, for Saturday’s Manny Pacquiao-Antonio Margarito fight. We should be in Las Vegas.
Las Vegas was made for pro boxing. Vegas is lots of bright lights and lots of dim bulbs losing the rent money. It is noisy, garish and loose with the truth, same as boxing. If they put them in eHarmony’s computer, they’d end up married.
Right now, thousands of Southern California fight fans should be doing as they always do for big fights — exceed the speed limit on Interstate 15 to rush to the weigh-in, that Friday afternoon prefight ceremony that remains one of the stupidest exercises in all of sport. Two men stand on scales in their underwear, flexing biceps.
Pacquiao-Margarito doesn’t work best in a big stadium. Cowboys Stadium can seat 100,000 and will probably have 60,000 for this one. That means you pay up to $700 for a seat and the only way to see the blood is on a huge TV screen. In Vegas, if you aren’t close enough to see the blood in the ring, you’ll probably see some a few rows in front of you. Fights for aisle seats are often better than those for title belts.
To be clear, this may be the last of this for a while. Expect the planets to get back in alignment and the big shows to return to Las Vegas. If you are unhappy that you had money budgeted for losses at the blackjack tables, rest easy that big-fight weekends in Vegas will return.
This is what happened this time.
Top Rank promoter Bob Arum, needing to get his superstar, Pacquiao, back in the ring once more in 2010, reserved the Nov. 13 date at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. He then reasoned that, though the world wants to see Pacquiao fight Floyd Mayweather Jr., Las Vegas law enforcement seems to want to see Mayweather more, and so that fight couldn’t happen. Arum knew that as sure as the sun will rise, Mayweather will run his mouth and run afoul of the law.
Arum’s next best sales-worthy product was Pacquiao-Margarito. But he had a problem.
Margarito had been caught with a hard substance in his glove wraps before a January 2009 fight with Shane Mosley at Staples Center. They took the stuff out of his gloves, then Mosley beat the stuffing out of Margarito, and in the aftermath, Margarito lost his license to box.
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