Do you think PAC will inflict the worst beating ever on Hatton?

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Freddie Roach said recently:

“Hatton is not fundamentally sound as a fighter – he keeps his chin up. He is the perfect opponent for Manny. You’re going to hear a lot of glass breaking when Manny starts playing his chin music concerto on Hatton. You’re going to see who has the chops to play this masterpiece on May 2.”


I agree with Coach Roach... Hatton's chin is very open to PAC's left hook... He keeps his chin up and his right glove is way below not protecting it...
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This is assuming if Hatton plays to Roach's plan...Hatton can always change his style to suit his opponent, but...I'm not sure if Pacquiao can change, to a greater degree, his susceptibility to rib punches, against one of the best body punchers in the sport

But, as we always know, it's all about the night...maybe Hatton will get blasted away in 5 rounds, maybe Pacquiao will crumble to a body punch, who knows eh

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There’ll be no major changes in the way Manny Pacquiao will conduct his business – methodical but brutal – against Ricky Hatton on May 2 in Las Vegas.

As in the most recent past, Pacquiao would definitely be in tip-top shape, according to his chief trainer Freddie Roach, who doesn’t see the junior-welterweight match set at the MGM Grand Garden Arena going past three rounds in favor of the Filipino southpaw – now regarded as the best in the world pound for pound.

Roach believes the old Pacquiao, the one who ran rings around the legendary Oscar De La Hoya with lateral movement and pin-point punching in December, would show up on fight night.

Roach is confident Pacquiao will be much sharper against Hatton than the time he easily polished off the Golden Boy.

“Manny’s style doesn't change a lot, but both opponents from these two last fights he is about to be or has been involved in — De La Hoya and Hatton — are both stronger, bigger guys, and we can't stand in front of them. We can use a little bit of the last camp preparing for Ricky, but we can tweak it a little bit,” Roach told Gareth Davies, the accomplished boxing writer for The Telegraph.

Roach is so sure of victory that he quipped that the only way Hatton can win the fight is when he catches Pacquiao napping on the ropes.

Roach said they’ve been workRoach ropeing hard in training camp to avoid, cognizant of Hatton’s preference to pin his foes on the ropes.

Other than that, Roach doesn’t see the fight going the other way.

“I can’t see that (happening),” Roach said in another interview this time with the Bulletin as he was about to cap another day of tough grind at the Wild Card Boxing Club in Hollywood.

With four weeks to go before the fight, Pacquiao’s is believed to reach his peak sometime in the next two weeks as his sparring session hits the 100 rounds-mark.

The past three weeks, Pacquiao has been either bloodying or beating up his sparmates, enough to convince Roach that there’s no way Hatton can beat the Gensan bomber.


Any info on the identities of Hatton sparring partners? Victor Ortiz? Zab Judah? Anyone? ... Hatton sparring sessions were ultra secret...
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Any info on the identities of Hatton sparring partners? Victor Ortiz? Zab Judah? Anyone? ... Hatton sparring sessions were ultra secret...
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Judah and Ortiz would be perfect sparring partners for Hatton.

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Any info on the identities of Hatton sparring partners? Victor Ortiz? Zab Judah? Anyone? ... Hatton sparring sessions were ultra secret...
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Judah and Ortiz would be perfect sparring partners for Hatton.

Or Team Hatton can hire Valero as a sparring partner... Valero is still very fresh... I think any of these 3 southpaws, Valero, Judah or Ortiz can hurt or give Hatton a black eye in sparring... Just like what happened to DelaHoya...
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Prediction of Gareth A. Davies, a formidable boxing sportswriter from UK's Telegraph Media Group:



Beholden to neither boxing camps, Gareth A. Davies brings along with him his invisible crystal ball from the United Kingdom. It reveals to him nothing short of mere speculations. But, he sees from it a see-saw fight between Pound-for-pound King Manny Pacquiao and IBO Light Welterweight Champion Ricky Hatton but conversely predicting an inevitable full stoppage in round 8th or 9th.

Asked about how he sees the fight other than his prediction of a late stoppage by Pacquiao, Davies says “Hatton may dominate Pacquiao in the first three rounds.” But, "Pacquiao will catch him up and through within fourth to fifth rounds and will clinically land more punches until the eight or ninth round," he adds.