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"Throwing punches, not baseballs, is preoccupying Pacquiao. A little less than five months removed from his big victory over Oscar De La Hoya, Pacquiao is scheduled to fight Ricky Hatton for the IBO and Ring Magazine World Junior Welterweight titles in Las Vegas on May 2.
"He's definitely 100 percent ready to fight right now. We're just maintaining," said Pacquiao's trainer, Freddie Roach.
Roach also noted Pacquiao has had seven "clones" of Hatton as sparring partners and has knocked out four of them. This thrilled the unabashedly pro-Pacquiao gathering at the news conference."
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JuanMa Lopez picks PAC's style to dominate that of Hatton...
The week after your fight, Manny Pacquiao is going to be facing Ricky Hatton. What’s your take on that fight, and who do you see winning it?
If we go based on styles, Pacquiao style should dominate Hatton’s.
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To be fair neither fighter will have exact clones of the other man. I was quite impressed with Hatton's choice of Lara as sparring partner, as he looks very good from the few videos I have seen. He can throw a hundred punches a round from an awkward southpaw stance. But let's face it, nothing quite matches up to what either man will face come fight night. And let's not forget that all this sparring is done with headgear. Hattons head is tough enough, Manny hasn't shown us yet what he can take upstairs, and I'm not convinced that any of his sparring partners can hit to the body as hard as Hatton either.
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There are only 10 days left before Ricky Hatton steps into the ring with Manny Pacquiao, and trepidation over the Englishman's chances mounts with every passing hour.
Hatton may have replaced a limited trainer — Billy Graham — with an excellent one — Floyd Mayweather Sr — but he hasn't altered his lifestyle between bouts and nor, more worryingly, does he appear to have learned to keep his trap shut lest he provide his opponent with the extra motivation that comes with prospect of making a braggart dine out on his own hubris.
"Manny fights the same way all the time," Hatton said about his Filipino opponent this week. "He's effective at what he does but he's not a versatile fighter. He's never met a man as fiery, ferocious or rough as me, and certainly not as big and strong. I don't think Manny is the most elusive. He's there to be hit. And if he gets hit he's going to get hit by the biggest man he's ever faced."
No doubt there was an element of the circus barker in this stream of consciousness but nevertheless Hatton surely overstepped marketing responsibilities and to potentially damaging effect. Pacquiao, as he implies, is one-dimensional all right; he's brilliant, and he is brilliant all the time.
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