Earlier today the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, Nevada, the opening ceremony for the 49th annual WBC Convention took place. The convention will be running all week in the city and will be capped off on Friday night with a card at the hotel featuring a middleweight face-off between former title challenger Marco Antonio Rubio and gritty journeyman Matt Vanda.
Several boxing luminaries were in the building, including past and present champions such as Saul ?Canelo? Alvarez, Miguel Cotto, George Foreman, Roberto Duran, Evander Holyfield, Roy Jones Jr., Sugar Ray Leonard, Rafael Marquez, Thomas Hearns, Larry Holmes, Toshiaki Nishioka, Marvin Hagler, and several others.
