March 6, 2003
TRENDY RESTAURANT PLANNED FOR 199 BOWERY
March 6, 2003 | 5:00amThe fast-gentrifying lower Bowery, already active with nightclubs and bars, is about to get its first serious, large restaurant. The owners of two successful uptown places have signed a 20-year,...
HERCULES FIGHTS BEING CHAINED BY A DISSIDENT
March 6, 2003 | 5:00amIT could be the main bout of a wrestling match - He-man vs. Hercules. But it's just another corporate struggle in what could be a long list this spring. Sources...
4TH TYCO APT. IN POSH LISTING
March 6, 2003 | 5:00amJUST when we thought all of Tyco's fancy apartments were accounted for comes word that a fourth lofty lair in Manhattan belonging to the beleaguered company will go on the...
BUFFETT LOSES BIDDING WAR FOR $1B UNIT OF BANKRUPT CONSECO
March 6, 2003 | 5:00amDespite his clout, Warren Buffett yesterday lost his fight to buy bankrupt Conseco's mobile-home lender in a billion-dollar bidding war with ex-Wall Streeter Christopher Flowers. Buffett balked at upping his...
BONDS TO RAISE $110M IN BUNNY MONEY
March 6, 2003 | 5:00amSince sex sells even in the worst of times, Playboy is tapping the bond market for the first time to raise $110 million. The bunny bonds will be backed by...
WOOING PLAYTEX - OFFERS SUBMITTED MAY BRING $1.6B
March 6, 2003 | 5:00amPlaytex, a company whose products are known for cleaning up life's everyday messes, is now hoping to clean up on its sale. Playtex Products Inc. - maker of cleaning products,...
STARR REPORT
March 6, 2003 | 5:00amRehn, Marriott wingin' it for KFC Say what you want about the old "15 minutes of fame" refrain - we should all be as lucky as Trista Rehn, Evan Marriott...
TAYLOR MADE CLASSIC
March 6, 2003 | 5:00amPAUL TAYLOR DANCE COMPANY City Center, 55th Street between Sixth and Seventh avenues. (212) 581-1212. Season runs through March 22. ---- WALT Disney has inspired comparatively few ballets - yet...
ACTOR LAUGHS AT CELEBS
March 6, 2003 | 5:00amBARBRA'S WEDDING At the Westside Theatre, 407 W. 43rd St. Telecharge, (212) 239-6200. ---- 'BARBRA'S Wedding" is an anti-showbiz comedy about two residents of a smallish Malibu ranch-style house on...
PUSS & BOOS
March 6, 2003 | 5:00amCAT POWER ----- LIKE a long-unchanged litter box, the band Cat Power made a major stink at Irving Plaza Tuesday night. It's incredible that anyone takes this group and its...
PLAY IT AGAIN, BUSH ...BUT THIS TIME IT'S SERIOUS FOR STORY BEHIND 9/11 MYSTERY
March 6, 2003 | 5:00amTIMOTHY Bottoms, the actor who portrayed George W. Bush as a goofy frat boy two years ago on Comedy Central's ill-fated sitcom, "That's My Bush!," is in talks to play...
'MARRIED' SUITOR DENISE NOT QUITE SINGLE ENOUGH
March 6, 2003 | 5:00amWHO knew they disqualified you from Fox's new reality show "Married by America" for already beingmarried? Denise L., a "suitor" on "Married," turns out to be separated - but not...
PASS THE 'BEENE' DIP
March 6, 2003 | 5:00am"Oliver Beene" [Zero stars] Sunday at 8:30 on Fox/Ch.5 ---- WHAT a load of crap. Pudgy little Oliver Beene gets covered with the stuff at the very beginning of the...
NORAH'S 'COME AWAY' A RUNAWAY HIT
March 6, 2003 | 5:00amNORAH Jones has the Midas touch. The Brooklyn songstress turned Grammy gold into cash, with her five-trophy haul fueling the biggest sales week of her career - 621,000 copies of...
WHEN ADS ATTACK - ANGRY MOVIE FANS SHRIEK AS PROMOS INVADE SCREENS
March 6, 2003 | 5:00amSHOW up at a movie and you'll have to watch Craig Kilborn sell Coca-Cola, Celine Dion shill for Chrysler and Fandango's curlyheaded guy dance with bells and say, "What do...
RAG MAGS BAGGED - EDITORS ARE NEW LITERARY VILLAINS
March 6, 2003 | 5:00amTAKE aim: It's open season on editors. After last year's "The Nanny Diaries" by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus gave bitter ex-employees license to dish (not to mention earn extra...
WNEW FIDDLES WITH FORMAT
March 6, 2003 | 5:00amWNEW is showing signs of getting cold feet over an new, experimental radio format it was widely expected to unveil this spring. The new format was supposed to be a...
6-MILE FENCE FOR 'BLVD. OF DEATH'
March 6, 2003 | 5:00amThe city plans to install more fencing along Queens Boulevard, the so-called "Boulevard of Death" where 193 pedestrians were killed last year, officials said yesterday. Currently, there is fencing along...
'60 MINS.' SIGNS UP BUBBA AND DOLE
March 6, 2003 | 5:00amComing up on "60 Minutes" this Sunday: a few minutes with Bill Clinton and Bob Dole. Former President Clinton and one of his arch political rivals, former Sen. Bob Dole,...
LEONA HIT WITH NEW SUIT
March 6, 2003 | 5:00amThe so-called "Queen of Mean" is on a legal roller-coaster - only a day after a judge sharply reduced an $11 million judgment a gay employee won from her, it...
KILLER: PROSECUTOR SET ME UP
March 6, 2003 | 5:00amA Brooklyn prosecutor suppressed evidence that might have cleared an accused killer, the felon claims in court papers. Dimas Perez, who's serving life without parole, says he should have been...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
March 6, 2003 | 5:00amYou could say the North Dakota town of Rocklake is really for the birds - or, to be exact, the turkeys. Dozens of the belligerent gobblers, raised on a nearby...
SAME-NAME CREDIT THEFT NETS 10G
March 6, 2003 | 5:00amA Long Island woman has been arrested for stealing the identity of another with the same name - and using it to buy at least $10,000 worth of household appliances...
MOM GOES FREE IN KID'S SCALD DEATH
March 6, 2003 | 5:00amA Brooklyn woman responsible for her 4-year- old daughter's scalding death walked out of court yesterday - free to try to get back her three other children. Tarajee Davis, 28,...
THRU STREETS ARE TURN FOR THE BETTER
March 6, 2003 | 5:00amCrosstown traffic jams are toast - thanks to the city's Thru Streets program, Mayor Bloomberg declared yesterday. With Transportation Commissioner Iris Weinshall by his side, the mayor said the once-controversial...
VID-VOYEUR VICTIM RIPS ASSEMBLY DEMS
March 6, 2003 | 5:00amALBANY - The Long Island woman whose landlord secretly videotaped her in her apartment is demanding a meeting with the head of the Assembly to plead for a bill making...
VOTERS RAILING AS BILLIONAIRE STRAPHANGER STAYS MUM
March 6, 2003 | 5:00amTHE next time the "billionaire mayor" gets on the subway, he might not want to make eye contact with average straphangers. To many, the mayor seems to have idly sat...
HOCKEY VICTIM'S ICE-RAGE ORDEAL
March 6, 2003 | 5:00amA 15-year-old Long Island hockey player says he was "hurt pretty bad" in a vicious on-ice attack by an opponent's father - and his own dad vows to sue the...
PITCHMAN PUSHED FLAMMABLE FOAM
March 6, 2003 | 5:00amA foam company salesman advised the owners of the Rhode Island nightclub to soundproof the place with highly flammable packaging material, authorities say. Barry Warner has said he approached brothers...
CBS ARAB TRANSLATOR'S FAKE ACCENT
March 6, 2003 | 5:00amThe Arab-accented translator who delivered Saddam Hussein's answers in English during Dan Rather's "60 Minutes II" interview with the Iraqi leader last week was actually an American voice-over artist. Steve...
WEB BUFFOON TURNS CHENEY'S WIFE INTO CLOWN
March 6, 2003 | 5:00amA Brooklyn satirist's Internet lampoon of Vice President Dick Cheney's wife hasn't got 'em rolling in the aisles at the White House. The whitehouse.org Web site, by would-be gagster John...
KHALID IN TOUCH WITH U.S. CELLS
March 6, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Evidence found in the Pakistan home of Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed revealed he was frequently communicating with people in the United States - possibly setting in...
4TH-GRADE TESTS HAD A MISTAKE
March 6, 2003 | 5:00amState Education Department officials admitted yesterday that one of the questions on the fourth-grade standardized reading examination was flawed and have scrapped it from the test scores of students. "There...
NICOLE AND JUDE ARE KNEE-DEEP
March 6, 2003 | 5:00amIs hot star Nicole Kidman just innocently touching the knee of married hunk Jude Law - or do we have the makings of a brand-new Hollywood scandal? This photo, appearing...
INJURED FIREMAN BREATHES EASIER
March 6, 2003 | 5:00amA rookie firefighter who suffered a critical case of smoke inhalation fighting a five-alarm blaze in Brooklyn is improving. Robert Petrarca, 26, of Staten Island, remained in critical but stable...
WTC FIRM'S FUNDS TO BE CARVED UP
March 6, 2003 | 5:00amA $33 million pot of money set aside by Congress specifically to help Cantor Fitzgerald - the World Trade Center brokerage that lost 658 employees in the terror attack -...
DA'S TAX-CHEAT PROBE TARNISHES BAUBLE-SELLERS
March 6, 2003 | 5:00amManhattan's bejeweled should beware. In its widening search for tax cheats, the Manhattan DA's office has begun serving subpoenas on the city's major jewelry dealers, District Attorney Robert Morgenthau told...
'BURGLARY-TO-ORDER' RING DELIVERED IT HOT
March 6, 2003 | 5:00amCall it "Rent a Burglar." A Manhattan burglary ring was thieving on demand, prosecutors charged yesterday - sending burglars into stores in Midtown and lower Manhattan to steal clothes, carpets,...
KLEIN TEACHING A THING OR TWO
March 6, 2003 | 5:00amListen up, students: That's Mr. Klein in front of the class. Schools Chancellor Joel Klein is taking off his boss' hat today to become a classroom teacher at the High...
BUTT BUSTERS HIRED FOR ANTI-SMOKE LAW
March 6, 2003 | 5:00amCall them the "Butt Cops." The city Health Department is hiring a dozen inspectors for special nighttime duty to enforce the city's tough new smoking ban - which is just...
'HUBBY' NABBED IN GRISLY MURDER
March 6, 2003 | 5:00amA jealous ex-con with a history of assault killed his common-law wife by stabbing her in the neck with a kitchen knife after she returned home from a date with...
WHERE IS MY WIFE? - E. SIDE DOC PLEADS FOR HELP
March 6, 2003 | 5:00amThe husband of a missing Upper East Side book dealer made an impassioned plea yesterday for help in finding his wife. "If you might think you know anything . ....
FORCES ARE READY TO ROLL, GENERAL VOWS
March 6, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Gen. Tommy Franks, commander of U.S. forces in the Persian Gulf, briefed President Bush on the Iraq war plan yesterday and proclaimed 300,000 American troops are "trained, ready...
NEW JAYSON INDICTMENT - ADDED CHARGE MAY HALT BID FOR DISMISSAL
March 6, 2003 | 5:00amNew Jersey prosecutors yesterday obtained a new indictment against former NBA star Jayson Williams in a surprise move that seeks to stop a legal challenge to the original manslaughter indictment....
'TOMB RAIDER' - SHE STOLE BONES FOR CULT: COPS
March 6, 2003 | 5:00amThe high priestess of a bizarre cult has been charged with ordering a band of ghoulish goons to steal skulls and bones from Newark cemeteries for use in ceremonies to...
KLEIN'S NEW CHIEF
March 6, 2003 | 5:00amSchools Chancellor Joel Klein yesterday appointed a music executive as his new chief of staff. LaVerne Evans Srinivasan is currently senior vice president and general counsel of BMG Music, a...
WARDEN ON HOT SEAT IN DALI HEIST
March 6, 2003 | 5:00amInvestigators probing the disappearance of a Salvador Dali painting from Rikers Island want to question an assistant warden who was on duty the night the valuable artwork was taken and...
LACI CLASSIFIED AS A HOMICIDE
March 6, 2003 | 5:00amCops investigating the disappearance of Laci Peterson - the pregnant California woman who vanished Christmas Eve - yesterday classified the case a homicide. Modesto police, who have not found Peterson's...
U.N. STANDS BY AS INNOCENTS ARE SLAUGHTERED
March 6, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Critics say something's wrong with President Bush if he can't get the United Nations to get tough with Saddam Hussein - truth is, the U.N. track record for...
MCD'S ADDS A NUGGET OF TRUTH
March 6, 2003 | 5:00amMcDonald's claims it's putting the real chicken back into McNuggets after a Manhattan federal judge described the fatty snacks as a "McFrankenstein creation." Not content to let its McNuggets take...
'MOBSTER,' KIN BUSTED IN 'HATE' ATTACK
March 6, 2003 | 5:00amA reputed mob associate, his wife and their lawyer daughter were arrested yesterday on hate-crime charges for allegedly hurling racial epithets at a Chinese woman and then assaulting her in...
OPRAH'S THE '1' - BACK ON TOP AS AMERICA'S FAVORITE TV STAR
March 6, 2003 | 5:00amTV viewers are notoriously fickle, but not when it comes to Oprah Winfrey. The billionaire queen of daytime television has recaptured the No. 1 position as America's favorite TV personality,...
BLAKE AIDE BASHES BONNY
March 6, 2003 | 5:00amLOS ANGELES - Robert Blake's personal assistant slammed murder victim Bonny Lee Bakley as "old and chubby," and was stunned the actor would even date -much less marry - the...
GRIEVING KIN'S TEARS FOR COUPLE KILLED IN CRASH
March 6, 2003 | 5:00amThe beloved couple killed in a smash-up with a vehicle driven by an off-duty cop who allegedly had been drinking with pals earlier in the night were remembered yesterday as...
ONLY FEW DAYS REMAIN: POWELL - * WARNING TO SADDAM * REAL CONSEQUENCES * MISSILE-DESTROY PLOY
March 6, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Secretary of State Colin Powell yesterday warned Saddam Hussein that he has just "the next few days" to give up his doomsday weapons or face "very, very real"...
TICKET BLITZ A SIN ON ASH WED.
March 6, 2003 | 5:00amAn NYPD traffic agent might want to give up writing tickets for Lent after he was admonished for blitzing Ash Wednesday parishioners with tickets outside a Staten Island church. Sources...
ISRAEL BUS BOMBER'S FINAL NOTE HAILED 9/11
March 6, 2003 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - A young Palestinian carrying a farewell note praising the Sept. 11 attacks blew up an Israeli bus yesterday, killing at least 16 people - including a 13-year-old American...
CLASSROOM EXTRA - THE GIFT OF GIVING
March 6, 2003 | 5:00amABSTRACT: YOU think your school's got problems? How would you like to go to a school in a building that wasn't built as a school at all? What would it...
SUPREME COURT OKS KID-PREDATOR PIX ON INTERNET
March 6, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that states are allowed to warn parents about predators by showing pictures of convicted child abusers on the Internet. The 6-3 ruling was...
WORLDCOM DIGS PITCHED TO JACKO
March 6, 2003 | 5:00amA shamed WorldCom bigwig is trying to unload his unfinished Florida estate on another notorious character - Wacko Jacko, The Post has learned. But so far, Michael Jackson hasn't taken...
MCDONALD'S TELLS NUGGET OF TRUTH
March 6, 2003 | 5:00amMcDonald's claims it's putting the real chicken back into McNuggets after a Manhattan federal judge described the fatty snacks as a "McFrankenstein creation." Not content to let its McNuggets cop...
HINTS OF 'GOV. SPITZER'
March 6, 2003 | 5:00amALBANY - Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, signaling he's eyeing a race for governor, has begun raising money for an unspecified "statewide" 2006 campaign. Spitzer's newly formed campaign committee is called...
AIDE: BLAKE TOO GOOD FOR WIFE
March 6, 2003 | 5:00amLOS ANGELES - Robert Blake's personal assistant slammed murder victim Bonnie Lee Bakley as "old and chubby," and was stunned the actor would even date her, a cop testified yesterday....
EXEC DANGLES FLA. DIGS BEFORE JACKO
March 6, 2003 | 5:00amA shamed WorldCom bigwig is desperately trying to unload his unfinished Florida estate on another notorious character - none other than Wacko Jacko, The Post has learned. But so far,...
IN GOD WE TRUST, BUT NEW COLORS HELP
March 6, 2003 | 5:00amIt's not easy being green - even the $20 greenback will lose some of its cachet color in a few weeks when the feds give Andrew Jackson a color makeover....
JURY GETS GOTTI CASE
March 6, 2003 | 5:00amThe fate of reputed Gambino boss Peter Gotti and six other alleged gangsters is now in the hands of a federal jury, with deliberations set to begin this morning. The...
SADDAM'S NEW DIRTY TRICKS - * MISSILE-DESTROY PLOY * POWELL SLAMS FOE * WEASELS STILL BALK
March 6, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Secretary of State Colin Powell yesterday charged that Saddam Hussein is playing a new "double game" - by secretly making more Al Samoud 2 missiles to replace the...
KHALID WAS IN TOUCH WITH U.S. COHORTS
March 6, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Evidence found in the Pakistan home of Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed revealed he was frequently communicating with people in the United States - possibly setting in...
ASH WEDNESDAY TICKET BLITZER CATCHES HELL
March 6, 2003 | 5:00amAn NYPD traffic agent might want to give up writing tickets for Lent after he was admonished for blitzing Ash Wednesday parishioners with tickets outside a Staten Island church. Sources...
LEAFLETS GIVE IRAQIS A HEADS-UP
March 6, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - U.S. planes this week dropped 420,000 leaflets in Iraq, telling the citizens there to stay out of the fighting and to "watch your children learn, grow and prosper."...
MTA READY TO MAKE $2 A FARE ACCOMPLI
March 6, 2003 | 5:00amThe MTA will approve a $2 bus and subway fare today, despite calls from the state and city comptrollers to put the brakes on the 50-cent hike until an audit...
RANGERS LEFT KEEPING SCORE
March 6, 2003 | 5:00amYou have to love when athletes bemoan scoreboard watching. They say it isn't important. They say all the right things, like, "We can't control what other teams do." Or, "We...
SHODDY STARTS STALLING DEVILS
March 6, 2003 | 5:00amCALGARY - The alarm is sounding, even if the Devils can't hear their alarm clocks. Counting on comebacks, the Devils are betraying a glaring failure. They continue to sleepwalk through...
SNOWBOARDING ELITE HEADING TO STRATTON
March 6, 2003 | 5:00amIN little more than a week, the top riders in the world will converge on Stratton Mountain in Vermont for the U.S. Open Snowboarding Championships. The Open, which was founded...
KUEHL MAKES SNAP DECISION
March 6, 2003 | 5:00amGIANT NOTES Some players come to New York to make a name for themselves. Not Ryan Kuehl. "I hope after all this is done no one should ever hear my...
BONAVENTURE DEBACLE REALLY HITTING HOME
March 6, 2003 | 5:00amTHIS is the kind of story that always supplies a smug and self-satisfied smile. Nothing hits the spot quite like a steaming mug of campus hypocrisy, and how can you...
KIDD'S VISIT SPURS TALK
March 6, 2003 | 5:00amSAN ANTONIO - The Nets prepared for equal parts zoo, circus and basketball game. "It's going to be crazy," Byron Scott said. See, Jason Kidd is making his only trip...
SCOTT: WE CAN WIN IT
March 6, 2003 | 5:00amNET NOTES SAN ANTONIO - The Nets have lost five of six games, eight of their last 12. They have committed 47 turnovers in the past two games. Distractions have...
SJU GETS DOWN TO NIT-TY GRITTY
March 6, 2003 | 5:00amFor the first time in more than a month, St. John's can see the light. With a win tonight at the Garden against Rutgers, the Red Storm, which went 2-6...
DON'T DOUBT DAVID'S DRIVE - CONE BELIEVES HE'LL PITCH WAY ONTO METS STAFF
March 6, 2003 | 5:00amJUPITER - David Cone opened a box from a sporting goods company the other day, pulled out a pair of coach's shoes and quipped, "Are they trying to send me...
AUTHOR NEEDS TO WORK ON HIS STYLE
March 6, 2003 | 5:00amTAMPA - If noted author David (H.G.) Wells were writing about his spring training performance yesterday against the Braves, "Perfect I'm Not!" would be an OK title. "Horsebleep I Am"...
BOOMER ANYTHING BUT PERFECT - PUT ANOTHER LOSS IN THE BOOK AS WELLS FALLS FLAT VS. BRAVES
March 6, 2003 | 5:00amBraves 12 - Yankees 2 TAMPA - Maybe David Wells should start pitching with a full load on. Perfect five years ago against the Twins when he admitted he was...
HAND IT TO CONE - FANS HAPPY WITH HIS PERFECT INNING
March 6, 2003 | 5:00amJUPITER - David Cone walked off the mound a conquering hero, appreciative of the smattering of fans who stood and cheered after the 40-year-old's perfect one-inning performance yesterday afternoon. One...
NUMBERS PUT LEFTY KAZMIR IN FAST LANE
March 6, 2003 | 5:00am10 INNINGS: Mets 7 - Marlins 6 JUPITER - When Scott Kazmir walked through the doors of the Mets' minor-league clubhouse early yesterday morning, No. 16 was waiting for him....
CONE PITTED AGAINST ROG IN WELLS' TOME
March 6, 2003 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - David Wells' poison pen finally infected Met spring training yesterday when David Cone had to defend himself against his pal's autobiography assertion that Cone helped Wells...
KLITSCHKO BELITTLES JONES
March 6, 2003 | 5:00amWladimir Klitschko thinks Roy Jones Jr.'s victory over John Ruiz last Saturday in Las Vegas was good entertainment, but he advises the new WBA heavyweight champion to think twice about...
NAGGING PAINS SIDELINE KARSAY, GIAMBI
March 6, 2003 | 5:00amYANKEE NOTES TAMPA - Steve Karsay's surgically repaired back is fine. The same can't be said for his right arm. "The shoulder is a little sore," Joe Torre said yesterday...
XAVERIAN, ST. RAY'S ROLL ON
March 6, 2003 | 5:00amCHSAA PLAYOFFS Two of the best players in the CHSAA claim to have learned from their mistakes. Xaverian's Chris Taft, who arrived just minutes before the team's last game against...
MCDYESS OLYMPICS CANDIDATE
March 6, 2003 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES BOSTON - U.S. Olympic men's basketball chief Stu Jackson monitored Antonio McDyess' rehab from knee surgery and considered inviting him to participate on the team that will compete...
CELTIC HEX KOS KNICKS ONCE AGAIN
March 6, 2003 | 5:00amCeltics 97 - Knicks 95 BOSTON - It ended with Clarence Weatherspoon yapping at the officials, looking for a last-second foul that never came. It ended with Weatherspoon having another...
FLAMES BURN DEVILS IN OT
March 6, 2003 | 5:00amCALGARY - The Devils managed a charity point last night, but that's all they got on this futile journey to Minnesota and Alberta. Those heady nights of their 12-0-1-1 rampage...
GIAMBI FEELS SOME PAIN, TOLD TO SIT OUT
March 6, 2003 | 5:00amYANKEE NOTES TAMPA - Not taking any chances in meaningless games, the Yankees shut down Jason Giambi yesterday when he felt a twinge in his right lower abdominal area. "I...
LOSING STREAK VS. CELTS IRKS CHANEY
March 6, 2003 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES BOSTON - Faced with seven straight losses against the team for which he starred, Don Chaney tried to light a fire under his Knicks before last night's game...
MCDYESS EYED FOR OLYMPICS
March 6, 2003 | 5:00amBOSTON - U.S. Olympic men's basketball chief Stu Jackson monitored Knick Antonio McDyess' rehab from knee surgery and considered inviting him to participate on the team that will compete in...
KLITSCHKO BELITTLES 'HEAVYWEIGHT' JONES
March 6, 2003 | 5:00amWladimir Klitschko thinks Roy Jones' victory over John Ruiz last Saturday in Las Vegas was good entertainment, but he advises the new WBA heavyweight champion to think twice about remaining...