You needn’t spend much time in Las Vegas to find yourself entangled in the extensive strands of fighting history, or to feel their tensile strength. This unique, bizarre city in the middle of the desert was built on one key agenda, making money, and boxing has brought almost as much of that to “Sin City” as gamblers have. And within minutes of being enveloped by the balmy, late-summer evening air, it could be that your very first interaction with a local draws out this topic.
“The last time I actually went to a fight was when Lamon Brewster knocked out Wladimir Klitschko,” Curtis, a 63-year-old taxi driver, tells The Independent. “When was that? 2013, 2012? No, way earlier, right? 2005 maybe…” Even further back, in fact, in 2004.
