World Boxing : Pacquiao-Cotto is the fight Las Vegas has been waiting for
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The dice roll, the roulette wheels spin, the players at the blackjack tables try to stare down the dealer, the slots whirl to the accompaniment of flashing lights and computerized tunes like ‘’Pomp and Circumstance’’ and all of them, high roller and low roller alike, come to the battle with a ‘’system’’ all their own. They have been coming to The Strip — that slice of understated neon that would make Caligula’s interior decorator blush — ever since the late Bugsy Siegel built the first of these major pleasure palaces in the desert, gift-wrapped the playing fields in Early American Gambling-House green felt and said, ‘’Beat us if you can’’.
For the record, that was circa post-World War II, and the only thing that ever beat the House wasn’t the systems, it was the financial torrent unleashed by Wall Street and banking greed that seriously cut into the availability of tourist money.
But now comes the firm of Manny and Miguel, to light up the financial horizon. The significance of their collaboration here tonight in the MGM Hotel & Casino’s Grand Garden arena cannot be over-stated or over-rated. This is the city that served as center stage for Holmes-Norton, where the two fought the most ferocious 15th round in the history of heavyweight boxing;…Hagler-Hearns, who fought the most incredible non-stop eight minutes this town ever saw; Leonard-Hearns, where Sugar Ray was one punch away from being stopped and found a found a way to knock Tommy out ……and you could surely name at least 20 more.
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