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The people on this board seem pretty evenly split on who they like in the Hitman/Pac-man battle.
Who do you think the crowd in Las Vegas will support?
Hatton? Pacquiao? or evenly split?
I think the crowd will back Hatton (slightly). I think he has gotten a little more fanfare in his US fights than Pacquiao has, although many of Pac-man's opponents had long become household names making them appeal more to the casual fans.
Thoughts?
About 60-40 in Pacs favour at the actual venue and probably about the same on these boards.
can't see that many Hatton fans going over for this... could be wrong but with the ramped up ticket prices and the pound to dollar rate... its an expensive event for even the hard core hatton fans.
Pac fans will be 80 % louder.
Hatton fans 82.4% drunker.
I think Hatton will have the edge although probably only about 60-40. However, I think the sheer noise & hostility of the Hatton fans will make it seem like more. I am curious how many from this board are going to support Pac, I know that there are a few guys goin over to support Hatton, but wondering what kind of response Pacquiao is getting in ticket sales
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Originally Posted by Youngblood
That about says it all.
Hatton will have the band there and enough singing fans that it'll seem like it's in Manchester. Even if the venue is majority Manny fans they'll be a lot quieter.
I expect the Fillipino fans will support Manny. ;D
Good point. Any Pac fans going from here or are you all armchair supporters/glory supporters?Quote:
Originally Posted by JazMerkin
What are they all gonna chip in and buy a ferry? I doubt it would be affordable to most in his homeland.Quote:
Originally Posted by BoomBoom
I will be there pulling for Hatton, but it is a short trip for me...I am already in the US.
A good point was made about the ticket prices. As recent as Wednesday ticketmaster still hadn't sold out.
Manny will probably fly them out. He looovvveeees giving money to his people, theyll probably take one of those airbuses or something.Quote:
Originally Posted by KelWhat are they all gonna chip in and buy a ferry? I doubt it would be affordable to most in his homeland.Quote:
Originally Posted by BoomBoom
Many Mexican fans supported Manny in the Hoya fight... Many Americans I think will support Manny against Hatton... Remember Sugar Ray Leonard, Winky Wright, Lennox Lewis said Manny is their favorite boxer...Quote:
Originally Posted by BoomBoom
So I think in the venue, (Filipinos + Mexicans + Americans) > British Hatton fans ...
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Originally Posted by KelWhat are they all gonna chip in and buy a ferry? I doubt it would be affordable to most in his homeland.Quote:
Originally Posted by BoomBoom
Yeah but Ricky has a decent amount of American fans too. I do think Manny will have a lot of fans but I wont be surprised if its split down the middle.Quote:
Originally Posted by SaddoBoxerMany Mexican fans supported Manny in the Hoya fight... Many Americans I think will support Manny against Hatton... Remember Sugar Ray Leonard, Winky Wright, Lennox Lewis said Manny is their favorite boxer...Quote:
Originally Posted by BoomBoom
So I think in the venue, (Filipinos + Mexicans + Americans) > British Hatton fans ...
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Probably... maybe 52/48 in favor of PAC (is this the purse split or crowd split?? ;D )Quote:
Originally Posted by BoomBoomYeah but Ricky has a decent amount of American fans too. I do think Manny will have a lot of fans but I wont be surprised if its split down the middle.Quote:
Originally Posted by SaddoBoxerMany Mexican fans supported Manny in the Hoya fight... Many Americans I think will support Manny against Hatton... Remember Sugar Ray Leonard, Winky Wright, Lennox Lewis said Manny is their favorite boxer...Quote:
Originally Posted by BoomBoom
So I think in the venue, (Filipinos + Mexicans + Americans) > British Hatton fans ...
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It'll be interesting to see how Pac is welcomed or played up off of drubbing he put on fan friendly DelaHoya.Anyone think he'll have a 'villian' factor??
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Originally Posted by Spicoli surfs 'Nawlins
Nope... Hoya gay fans will always remember what PAC said to Hoya right after the fight...
"Whatever happened... You are still my IDOL..." LOL ;D PAC is becoming a good politician... ;D
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A good 7,500 flights out to vegas from the UK for that particular weekend already booked and i suspect it`ll be more like 13-15 thousand come the actual fight.
Brits will take over the MGM though i suspect it wont make a blind bit of difference as to who actually wins the fight!!
I also think that it is more likely that the remaining tickets will be bought up by Hatton fans coming from the UK than Pac fans.
It's not really advisable to have that many Hatton fans (80%) in the MGM arena... or else it will come out a very quite night... ;) Hatton fans will muted by the sight of PAC giving a bad beating on Hatton...
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Have some neg;) (look a friendly wink)Quote:
Originally Posted by SaddoBoxer
Getting fukkin tired of you and your posts. I think your message is loud and clear, if the sun died tomorrow Pac just needs to bend over.....
Tone it DOWN
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Originally Posted by KelHave some neg;) (look a friendly wink)Quote:
Originally Posted by SaddoBoxer
Getting fukkin tired of you and your posts. I think your message is loud and clear, if the sun died tomorrow Pac just needs to bend over.....
Tone it DOWN
No problem mate... ;)
If you can't swallow a possible quite MGM arena full of Hatton fans then by all means neg rep me (you already did it ;) )...
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I'm not sure either what your goal is Saddoboxer. To antagonize I guess anyone who isn't a pacfan?
i'm going to be honest with you. I am fairly unbiased when it comes to fighters, and I root for pac. But if your goal is to turn fans to root against pac, it may be helping. I'm starting to hope Hatton beats his face in, if just to see you maybe stop.
I just told you I negged you;)Quote:
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Originally Posted by KelHave some neg;) (look a friendly wink)Quote:
Originally Posted by SaddoBoxer
Getting fukkin tired of you and your posts. I think your message is loud and clear, if the sun died tomorrow Pac just needs to bend over.....
Tone it DOWN
No problem mate... ;)
If you can't swallow a possible quite MGM arena full of Hatton fans then by all means neg rep me (you already did it ;) )...
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There is no such thing as a quiet Hatton fan, even after Hatton lost to Floyd they all cheered and the band played. It's called support. You off to see Manny? your obviously his biggest fan.....?
Naahhh, I'll settle for a PPV...Quote:
Originally Posted by KelI just told you I negged you;)Quote:
Originally Posted by SaddoBoxerQuote:
Originally Posted by Kel
No problem mate... ;)
If you can't swallow a possible quite MGM arena full of Hatton fans then by all means neg rep me (you already did it ;) )...
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There is no such thing as a quiet Hatton fan, even after Hatton lost to Floyd they all cheered and the band played. It's called support. You off to see Manny? your obviously his biggest fan.....?
Yep, you're right Hatton fans are always noisy win or loss and I might be wrong in saying Hatton fans might be muted by the sight of PAC giving Hatton his worst beating... Hatton fans will still be shouting "ohhhhh", "ahhhhhh", and "ohh my goddddd" in that scenario... ;)
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Pac will have the mayority of the support. I don't think Hatton's fans want to spend their hard earned money watching their fighter get destroyed again only this time by a real pound for pound champion like the human buzz saw is.
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Originally Posted by Danny_G
Even in the midst of a recession and the fact it was only malignaggi a good 6000 turned out to see him fight.
35 thousand fans flocked from the UK to vegas for the mayweather fight something manny pacquiao could only dream about. If you seriously believe pacquiaos couple of hundred die hards are gonna out number the potential 10s of thousands who like myself will be over from the UK your mad.
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Originally Posted by Youngblood
Mate YB... this is just part of pre-fight hype and fun...
All these forum talks are nothing... what matters is the actual fight...
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Originally Posted by SaddoBoxerQuote:
Originally Posted by Youngblood
Mate YB... this is just part of pre-fight hype and fun...
All these forum talks are nothing... what matters is the actual fight...
I dont see anything wrong with saddo bigging up his boy pacquiao??
Forums like these are designed for fans to have opinions arent they???
It's never ending and always the same.
And yea, he can do what he likes. I don't mind most of it, but it gets tiresome. Just saying my thoughts.
And trying to give a perspective from someone who actually roots for Pac on the subject, likes pac and isn't philipino, but not so much the ceaseless antagonism.
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Originally Posted by Youngblood
BTW, this is not to antagonize anyone who isn't a pacfan...
This is more of to agonize Hatton fans... ;D (joke)
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Originally Posted by SaddoBoxerQuote:
Originally Posted by Youngblood
BTW, this is not to antagonize anyone who isn't a pacfan...
This is more of to agonize Hatton fans... ;D (joke)
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can just imagine the scene 10,000+ roaring "theres only one ricky hatton" "engerland, engerland, engerland" etc and little old you stood there with your pacman t-shirt chanting "manny, manny, manny" over and over again.
They`ll chew you up and spit you out before the 1st undercard fight is done ;D;D;D
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Originally Posted by SaddoBoxerQuote:
Originally Posted by Youngblood
BTW, this is not to antagonize anyone who isn't a pacfan...
This is more of to agonize Hatton fans... ;D (joke)
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can just imagine the scene 10,000+ roaring "theres only one ricky hatton" "engerland, engerland, engerland" etc and little old you stood there with your pacman t-shirt chanting "manny, manny, manny" over and over again.
They`ll chew you up and spit you out before the 1st undercard fight is done ;D;D;D
;D ;D it sounds like a real fun ... btw, PAC fans has new chants "hala bira, hala bira, hala bira" (translation: "blow hard, blow hard, blow hard" LOL :lolhaha: joke )
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The worse scenario would be a DRAW....No one coalition less ;D.
Think Hatton takes it
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Originally Posted by Spicoli surfs 'Nawlins
Theres 3months to go and already it seems like us brits and fillipinos are driving you yanks mad with endless predictions. If it were to end a draw after all this i think id have to give up coming on here for a while just for parity;D
Remember the mexicans and puerto ricans driving me mad last summer over cotto/margarito to the point of utter annoyance. I can now share their pain and apologise to all who we are driving mad
I will support Hatton on this but i still think Pac will win. But i just want Hatton to win so Pac fans can STFU.
I just wanna see a great fight. The anticipation is killing me. I like Ricky Hatton as I'm a big fan of body shots but I think Pac would win and he has my bet. Like the Filipino fans I would be yelling "money! money! money!" ;D
I guess the Pacquiao fans are gonna ignore my question on how many of them are actually going to the fight??
Its not got some sinister undertone where I will hunt you down & kill you pre-fight, it might just gave a basic indication of the support that will be going ;D
Also Thomson Local announced that they have had nearly 10,000 bookings going out to Las Vegas from the UK during the week preceding the fight. They stated their average per week was usually at a top level of about 800, so that might give the indication that a lot of Hatton fans will be there. That's just one holiday provider & not who I booked mine through
I will be interested to see how Manny copes at the weigh-in against the hostility he will no doubt get (not from me because I ain't getting into all that booing him shit), Mayweather was able to feed of it because that's what he does, but Pacquiao is not used to not being the popular fighter (even against ODLH whose fans aren't anywhere near as agressive as Hatton's).
I don't think there are many Pac fans in this forum that will support him by going to Vegas but tell you what I am shocked by the population of Filipinos here in San Jose. There were a lot of them back in Hawaii but damn they are just everywhere. I heard there is a million of them in Califronia alone. So regarding the local support, I think Pac has a solid one.Quote:
Originally Posted by JazMerkin