Celebrities were introduced fifteen minutes, and the successful gamblers had given back some of their winnings for a last-minute pair of tickets canal find a little consolation for bad ringside seats. Since the gala glitz of Trump Plaza was but a connecting corridor away from Convention Hall, the Trump Plaza was architecturally close to its purpose, possessing a retina-red decor that inspired you to sport and gamble, the shock in moving from gaming tables to the fight was as palpable as sex after midnight is distinguishable from the gray dawn. Now on the night of June 27, 1988, thousands of seats were laid out on the great flat floor and people in the seventeenth row ringside were paying $1,500 a ticket to see Tyson-Spinks Heavyweight Championship. ![]() ![]() The Hall looked on that occasion like a coronation chamber for a dictator. Lyndon Johnson was nominated there in 1964 with two identical sixty-foot close-up photographs of himself on either side of the podium. ![]() ![]() It drops the kind of pall an audience that would come from witnessing a cock-fight in a bank. This article originally appeared in the September 1988 issue of SPINĪs an arena for boxing, the Convention Hall at Atlantic City is not one of the happier architectural palaces of the world.
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