Byline: nick giongco
LAS VEGAS Some of Americas leading publications have dispatched reporters and photographers to cover Saturday nights super-featherweight slugfest between Manny Pacquiao and Erik Morales at the MGM Grand.
Lee Samuels, the public relations man of Top Rank, the lead promoter of todays heavily-hyped showdown, said publications like the Los Angeles Times, New York Daily News, Sacramento Bee, San Diego Union-Tribune, Arizona Republic, Orange County Register, Los Angeles Daily News and top Mexican paper La Opinion, Las Vegas-Review Journal and Las Vegas Sun, are in town to catch the action.
Samuels revealed that the Ring magazine, acknowledged as the Bible of Boxing, even sent three writers to cover the event and a Japanese TV crew as well as an English news team are already here in anticipation of a mega fight.
Todd DuBoef, the new president of Top Rank, said they had to add more seats in the $75 section as he expects more fans to make a bee-line to the box-office just hours before the show gets on the road.
Owing to the unusual number of newsmen, the promoters have decided to further enhance the services available for those covering a fight that has all the trappings of a classic.
The supply of soda drinks, juice and designer bottled water did not stop and newsmen working from morning til night had an abundance of snacks ranging from nachos (with salsa and guacamole), different kinds of specialty bread, fresh fruits, pretzels, potato chips, chocolate chip and oatmeal cookies, muffins and frozen delights from Haagen Dazs.
