LAS VEGAS — It is called a ring, even though it is square, and on Saturday night, it will be a center of attention when Floyd Mayweather Jr. fights Manny Pacquiao.
A boxing ring is the most intimate of sporting venues, a 20-foot-by-20-foot elevated square, framed by thick bands and topped by canvas, with none of the vastness of a football field or loose dimensions of a baseball park.
Yet it is afforded none of the same reverence.
A couple of weeks ago, Jay Cline walked out of the MGM Grand Garden Arena, where he is the operations director, into the bright daylight.