Vegas & EventsHistory
How Las Vegas became the capital of fight night
From a 1931 gambling law to a 2016 arena on the Strip: how casinos learned to pay site fees for big fights and turned Las Vegas into boxing's home address.
Writer · Promotion and Las Vegas
Rafael Ortega
Grew up in El Paso around boxing gyms and spent years in Las Vegas covering fight weeks, casinos and the city’s events trade.
- Writes about
- Boxing and MMA promotion · Las Vegas · Fight-night economy
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