Fans of boxing champ Juan Manuel Márquez cheer on Dec. 8 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.
Cheer for Márquez
Fans of boxing champ Juan Manuel Márquez cheer on Dec. 8 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.
While scores of people traveled far to Las Vegas to see the boxing match between Juan Manuel “Dinamita” Márquez of Mexico and Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao of the Philippines, fortunately I had about a 25-minute commute to the MGM Grand Garden Arena on Saturday night.
Though I didn't splurge on tickets to the match, I did hang out in the lobby area waiting for crowds to rush out of the arena and cheer, which they did at around 10 p.m. after Márquez knocked out Pacquiao in the sixth round. And cheering is perhaps an understatement.
Fans of Márquez shouted, sang, danced, waved Mexican flags, hugged each other and transformed the venue into what seemed like the happiest place on the planet.
Veronica Zaragovia (Las Vegas) is happiest finding stories in remote corners and unlikely places, and she loves to explore Southern Nevada. Her reporting has taken her from South Dakota to Seoul, South Korea, and several places in between. Her reporting includes stories for the Associated Press, the Agence France Presse, KENS 5 (the CBS affiliate in San Antonio, Texas), the In Transit blog of The New York Times and the online PBS NewsHour.
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