Another controversial decision on who won the boxing match held last Saturday Night at the Mandaylay Bay resort. If you guessed that Don King was "in the house" you would be correct.

For those of you that decided not to spend the fifty bucks on pay per view, yet are still interested in judging this fight for yourself - the fight will be aired one week later on Home Box Office:

Oscar De Lahoya vs Felix Trinidad
From the Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas
Saturday Sept 25th 9:45PM Eastern on HBO



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Mark
Moderator - Entertainment
mark@talkvegas.com

Mark,
A fight with "Don King in the house" is just like pro wrestling. Expect the bizzare!
Around here there where all sorts of gun shots when the fight was over. In Lancaster, PA, the fans (riotors) wreaked a police cruiser in celibration?
What's up with that? I'm so happy my guy won....I'm going to go out and destroy something? I guess I miss the point! It's just one more reason I don't follow/care about boxing.

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Lee-PA
Moderator, What's New Forum
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Mark, I taped the fight and should have known that it wasn't going to live up to the hype.

Hey Lee! You gotta explain to those PA boys that wrecking a police cruiser is no way to celebrate<G>

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John
Moderator Dining Forum
john@talkvegas.com

Mark,

Thanks for the info. I didn't pay for view, but I tuned in the channel to listen to the fight. When I went to bed, Oscar seemed to have it in the bag. I taped the sound for the rest of the fight. When I woke up and heard the results I wondered what had happened. Now if I can only get Beth to use the computer Saturday night.

Oscar De La Hoya's promoter said it will be a long time before the popular welterweight boxer, who lost a controversial majority decision Saturday at Mandalay Bay to Felix Trinidad, returns to fight in Las Vegas.

"I'm not saying he will never fight in Las Vegas again, but I don't think he will for a long, long time," said Arum, who has promoted all of De La Hoya's 32 pro bouts, with 18 of them in Las Vegas. "I have to worry about my other marquee fighters, too, (World Boxing Council super featherweight champion Floyd) Mayweather and (WBC super bantamweight champion Erik) Morales and whether they can get fair shakes here.

If De La Hoya does not fight in Las Vegas again, it will put a severe dent into the local economy. Terry Jicinsky, marketing and research manager of the Las Vegas Convention & Visitors Authority, estimated that the bout with Trinidad had a non-gaming economic impact of $7.2 million.

De La Hoya's fight with Julio Cesar Chavez on Sept. 18, 1998, pumped $9.1 million into the local economy. Those figures do not include people who came to town because of the fight but did not actually attend it.

Gleaned from the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Sept. 24, 1999.

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