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Boxing offers opportunity to pay respects to the fading Sports Arena

The fate of the 56-year-old Los Angeles Sports Arena has been sealed, but there remains time for a curtain call or two before the wrecking balls roll in.

After the wrecking balls will come soccer balls.

Two months ago, the Los Angeles Football Club, which has nothing to do with the NFL and is apparently trying to convince us of the need to be more universal in our sports terminology, announced plans to build a new stadium. The plan is for 22,000 seats and lots of the fancy facility enhancements that fans now demand, and correctly so, for their attendance dollar.