Big Noise From Dallas

Multi media pomp and circumstance has become big in boxing. In a recent forgettable fight by one of the Klitchko's, the heavyweight king marked his entrance with a phalanx of holograms of great fighters announcing how great Klitchko is.

Now, here in Cowboy's Stadium, the fighters' entrances are preceded by giant video screen homages to all of the great ring wars. It's as if the promoters are begging us to believe this will be such an event. Either that or they are desperately hoping that the videos themselves, screened as they are in the Cowboys' enormous screens will make up for what very well may be a short fight, given that Pacquiao involved.

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