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By Thomas Gerbasi - There’s nothing like a big fight night in Las Vegas. It’s the perfect place for fans to see and meet their heroes, and also a big deal for the fighters, as they have a chance to be seen and to greet their public.
Promoter Gary Shaw knows this, so he made it a point to bring one of his hot prospects, 2004 Mexican Olympian Alfredo ‘Perro’ Angulo, to the MGM Grand a little over a year ago, to test the waters of public perception.
Shaw was shocked by the reception Angulo received as they left the arena, but there was something different about the whole thing.
“People are stopping him, taking pictures, but he’s laughing his ass off,” recalled Shaw. “I’m looking at him, but I’m not getting it. Well, it probably took us way over an hour to go from the MGM Grand Arena to outside, and he’s still laughing the whole way.
"We finally get to the front door and I go ‘Perro, what’s so funny?’ He says, ‘Papa, they think I’m (Antonio) Margarito.’”
Even today, with Angulo firmly entrenched in the top ten of all four major sanctioning bodies’ junior middleweight rankings and his name established among fight fans as one of the top young fighters in the game, Shaw and his fighter still laugh about the incident, which says as much about Angulo as it does about the lure of ‘celebrity’. [details]
Promoter Gary Shaw knows this, so he made it a point to bring one of his hot prospects, 2004 Mexican Olympian Alfredo ‘Perro’ Angulo, to the MGM Grand a little over a year ago, to test the waters of public perception.
Shaw was shocked by the reception Angulo received as they left the arena, but there was something different about the whole thing.
“People are stopping him, taking pictures, but he’s laughing his ass off,” recalled Shaw. “I’m looking at him, but I’m not getting it. Well, it probably took us way over an hour to go from the MGM Grand Arena to outside, and he’s still laughing the whole way.
"We finally get to the front door and I go ‘Perro, what’s so funny?’ He says, ‘Papa, they think I’m (Antonio) Margarito.’”
Even today, with Angulo firmly entrenched in the top ten of all four major sanctioning bodies’ junior middleweight rankings and his name established among fight fans as one of the top young fighters in the game, Shaw and his fighter still laugh about the incident, which says as much about Angulo as it does about the lure of ‘celebrity’. [details]
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