Yes, that place use to rock and everytime the camera would look around you could really tell how packed it was and it wasn't all dark at the top like the mgm and other places.
It was packed because it was so small. When they fought indoors at Caesars Palace Sports Pavillion, they would use what was basically a large ballroom that you would hold any big business meeting. If you go back to old Ring magazines, where they listed the attendance of those fights at Caesars, you'll see figures like 1,500 for a Lupe Pintor or a Wilfredo Gomez title defense. I believe Holmes-Shavers II had around 3,000 people. And the biggest might have been the Holmes-Norton/Young-Ocasio doubleheader ... where they broke fire code regulations and put 5,000-plus seats in the room. The Leonard-Benitez/Hagler-Antuofermo doubleheader had 4,000 attendees. It's kind of embarrassing when you look at the actual attendance in some of those fights. Frankly, the rooms looked and were packed because they only held a few thousand people. Of course, they could hold more people when they staged fights outdoors - like Ali-Holmes and Holmes-****ey ... but they'd just set up a ring in the middle of the parking lot at the hotel and bring in bleachers. And, even then, they didn't hold more than 10,000 or so. The lights may be blacked out in the upper balconies of arenas today, but that's because they hold 20,000 people. Those old ABC broadcasts of Caesars Palace fights look great and they could always spot the celebrities in attendance ... because they were in tiny hotel ballrooms that didn't hold that many people. If a 1,000 people showed up, it looked packed.
