“For the loser, Las Vegas is the meanest town on earth”.
So said US journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson and come late Saturday night, either Oscar De La Hoya or Floyd Mayweather will know exactly what he means.
These two ring warriors are set to battle it out at the MGM Grand in the richest non-heavyweight title fight of all time and the stakes could not be higher.
Both men are multi-millionaires but as they have been reminding us for weeks, this fight isn’t about money.
It’s about reviving the prestige and glamour of a sport on the ropes and revealing just who is top dog, ‘pound-for-pound’, in the hardest game of all.
