LAS VEGAS — The guy bobs and weaves, slipping around Joe Louis’ big left paw. Wisely, he’s leery of that left. It’s fixed in place for eternity, but the guy dodges it as if it were flesh and blood.

A few feet away, his pal snaps photographs with a small camera. Twenty yards away, the scene entrances sportsbook director Vinny Magliulo.

It’s early June 1996 at Caesars Palace. In several days, Oscar De La Hoya will beat Julio Cesar Chavez via a fourth-round TKO to claim the WBC super-lightweight belt.

What Magliulo witnesses trumps that main event.

The Joe Louis statue — carved from the same marble quarry in Carrara, Italy, that produced the immortal pose of David and the supports in the Pantheon in Rome and the Oslo Opera House — is about to claim another victim.

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