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

[Manuel "Chubby" Medina]

72 pages already

Goin for 100

[Gandalf]

72 pages already

Might get to 100 before the fight!

[Gandalf]

72 pages already

Goin for 100

Hahaha, you beat me to it!

[XaduBoxer]

72 pages already

Goin for 100

Hahaha, you beat me to it!

My postings on this thread is equivalent to 20 pages... ha ha LOL
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[clintuk]

Goin for 100

Hahaha, you beat me to it!

My postings on this thread is equivalent to 20 pages... ha ha LOL
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Probably the first fact you've posted on this thread ^^

Haha, I kid, I kid

[carloseap]

PAC absorbed them without causing big problems

No problems? How do we call a bloody face, cuts, swells, gashes, etc.?

PAC inflicting the worst beating ever on Hoya...

Hardcore PacFans *sigh*...when will you guys stop getting aroused from victories over has-beens or nobodies like Diaz? Like I said many times, I give him credit for his victories over Morales, Barrera, and being a fill-in and taking care of business when he was barely getting known outside the Phils but over ODLH, Diaz, etc.? Come oooooon. Look at it this way, do you give credit to Trevor Berbick for beating Muhammad Ali? Do you give credit to McBride for beating Tyson? Do you give credit to Camacho for beating Ray Leonard?

Pacquiao knocks down sparmate with body shot

After seeing that hardcore PacFans get totally excited over his victories vs Diaz, ODLH, etc. Then it doesn't surprise me to hear you guys getting all aroused with the news of Pac beating his very own sparring partner.

Hello, Chino, hello everyone!
Another Hatton fan from Mexico here!
You make an excellent point in your post. Nothing impressive in Pacquiao's record. Had he beaten someone like, say, Julio Cesar Chavez in his prime, I would be the first to say Ricky doesn't stand a chance against him.

I am positively sure that Ricky will give the world a huge surprise. Very different boxing styles, and in the end, that makes a huge difference, as in the Cotto-Margarito fight, or the Pavlik-Hopkins one.

Pacquiao has never fought someone like Hatton in his entire career. He will be in for a shock! Hatton is naturally more powerful, he can also inflict severe damage with his brutal body shots. As for the arm length, the shorter the arms, the harder the punch! In the end, all it takes is ONE PUNCH to decide a fight.

VIVA HATTON! GO, RICKY!

[XaduBoxer]

Hahaha, you beat me to it!

My postings on this thread is equivalent to 20 pages... ha ha LOL
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Probably the first fact you've posted on this thread ^^

Haha, I kid, I kid

Hey Clint, sorry I can't find any pic of Hatton's bus... I believed there's none... There must be some favoritism in Vegas... PAC has a custom bus while Hatton has none...

Anyway here's another photo of the Pacquiao bus...

[XaduBoxer]

Hatton's speech during the final press conference:

"I'm going to make this speech as short as possible," he said. "I'm not going to say much because while reading all the websites and the sports magazines and the newspapers I see you have made your minds up.

"Well, the fat, beer-drinking Englishmen is going to shock the world again. Manny is rated the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world but this is my weight division and all I can say it that I will see you all, and Manny, in the centre of the ring."

[LEGION]

Hatton's speech during the final press conference:

"I'm going to make this speech as short as possible," he said. "I'm not going to say much because while reading all the websites and the sports magazines and the newspapers I see you have made your minds up.

"Well, the fat, beer-drinking Englishmen is going to shock the world again. Manny is rated the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world but this is my weight division and all I can say it that I will see you all, and Manny, in the centre of the ring."

He must be drunk already....how are all the fans going to fit in the center of the ring?

[The Congressman]

Hatton's speech during the final press conference:

"I'm going to make this speech as short as possible," he said. "I'm not going to say much because while reading all the websites and the sports magazines and the newspapers I see you have made your minds up.

"Well, the fat, beer-drinking Englishmen is going to shock the world again. Manny is rated the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world but this is my weight division and all I can say it that I will see you all, and Manny, in the centre of the ring."

He must be drunk already....how are all the fans going to fit in the center of the ring?

Lol!

[XaduBoxer]

And what's this news with 2 days into the fight??

link --> Hatton camp in turmoil heading into fight


"LAS VEGAS – Two days before Manny Pacquiao and Ricky Hatton are to meet in the year’s biggest boxing match, a representative of Pacquiao trainer Freddie Roach had a conversation with Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer about the possibility of Roach training Hatton in Hatton’s next fight.

Roach’s agent, Nick Khan, had heard of rumors of discontent between Hatton and his trainer, Floyd Mayweather Sr. In a telephone conversation with Schaefer, Khan suggested that Roach would be interested in training Hatton."



What's your thoughts on this guys??
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[XaduBoxer]

Hatton's speech during the final press conference:

"I'm going to make this speech as short as possible," he said. "I'm not going to say much because while reading all the websites and the sports magazines and the newspapers I see you have made your minds up.

"Well, the fat, beer-drinking Englishmen is going to shock the world again. Manny is rated the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world but this is my weight division and all I can say it that I will see you all, and Manny, in the centre of the ring."

He must be drunk already....how are all the fans going to fit in the center of the ring?

LOL ... Hatton's problem is, he keeps on reading newspapers, magazines and websites (specially Saddo's "Do you think PAC will inflict...")... He's the heavy underdog so those readings were expected... Better for Hatton to shut off from world and refrain from reading any news about this fight...
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[LEGION]

Hatton's speech during the final press conference:

"I'm going to make this speech as short as possible," he said. "I'm not going to say much because while reading all the websites and the sports magazines and the newspapers I see you have made your minds up.

"Well, the fat, beer-drinking Englishmen is going to shock the world again. Manny is rated the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world but this is my weight division and all I can say it that I will see you all, and Manny, in the centre of the ring."

He must be drunk already....how are all the fans going to fit in the center of the ring?

LOL ... Hatton's problem is, he keeps on reading newspapers, magazines and websites (specially Saddo's "Do you think PAC will inflict...")... He's the heavy underdog so those readings were expected... Better for Hatton to shut off from world and refrain from reading any news about this fight...
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Well I'm sure if he's read all your posts he's already made a reservation at the hospital

[The Congressman]

I smell early excuses already from hatton....







http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog/20 ... ao-rumours

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Las Vegas is abuzz with speculation and gossip as the atmosphere builds for Saturday night's main event

Ricky hatton sparring

Ricky Hatton finished sparring two days earlier than usual and Las Vegas is abuzz with rumour and conjecture as to why. Photograph: Justin Downing/Sky Box Office

It has taken longer than usual before a big fight in Vegas, but the rumours have started leaking ahead of Ricky Hatton's meeting with Manny Pacquiao on Saturday night.

Rumour 1) Hatton finished his sparring on Wednesday of last week, two days earlier than usual, not because he and his trainer, Floyd Mayweather Sr, were happy they could not make him any sharper but because he had to have a cortisone injection in his left elbow.

Hatton shot that one down. He said he's never been fitter before a fight. While he nearly always says that, I could find no confirmation of the story, and he did not appear at all uncomfortable when he met the British press on Monday night. He was alert, relaxed, confident and slim.

"I gave the sparring partners a right hiding," he says. "That's the way you want it to be in your last session. Normally we'd do our last session on the Friday but we didn't need to. There's only one way you can go when you've got it just right, and that's backwards."

Rumour 2) This one is harder to pin down or stand up: Mayweather Sr is seriously put out by the way some members of the entourage are treating him. They ignore him in the gym and, generally, leave him out of the loop.

The story goes that when they went to Los Angeles for a press conference last week, they did not tell him they were staying overnight and he consequently did not bring with him the medication he needs for his debilitating chest condition. Instead, he turned up in his suit, with no change of clothes, and someone had to rush to a drugstore to get his medicine.

If Mayweather, a fiercely proud but vulnerable man, is put out, this might explain a story in the Daily Mirror this week, which quoted him as saying, "I taught Ricky to box. Ricky didn't know anything when I started with him. He had brute strength, that was it. When I first went down to England to see him, you know, it was horrendous. But you look at him today, he's totally different." This, of course, contradicted his earlier view that, "Ricky could win this fight without me. But he has a much better chance with me."

It also does not quite fit with Hatton's take on his development. "I always had a good jab," he says. "I always had good boxing ability, I always had great footwork but I think that certainly in the past five or six years, I haven't used them properly."

Rumour 3) Billy Graham, whom Hatton sacked as his trainer before the Paul Malignaggi fight, is going through with his threat to sue the fighter for 10% of his earnings in the 10 years he was with him. That cut might be as high as £3m. Graham will remember that Kevin Rooney successfully sued Mike Tyson for a similar amount. Whatever, it's sad to hear Graham tell the Sun: "It's been a fairytale and the fairytale has now been ruined. For me it has, anyway. I loved him."

The truth of that story will be tested in the most public forum, the courts.

It might explain, also, Hatton's continued references to the good times with Graham. He peppers nearly every discussion about his switch to Mayweather Sr with phrases such as "Don't get me wrong, what Billy and me had was special." He refers time and again to Graham's failing health and inability to stand up to the rigours of training. What then, of Mayweather, who looks and talks like a man half his age but inside is struggling with lungs that cause him serious pain?

Rumour 4) Hatton was rocked a few times by sparring partners in the early part of his preparation in Las Vegas. Well, what can you say? To buy into this you have to believe that boxing is a no-risk business where the main man gets to throw all the punches, with none coming back. Fighters invariably take a shot or two getting ready for a fight. What the rumour didn't add was that Hatton held the shots.
Lunar atmosphere?

No doubt when Hatton's army arrive in good numbers – later than in the past, given money is tight – they will liven up a town that seems eerily quiet. A walk down the strip the other night was remarkable only for the absence of hubbub. Traffic is lighter. In the casinos, the ching-ching of the fruit machines is not so orchestral. There is more space at the bar and no problem getting a table at a restaurant.

And this is what it is like when the Brits aren't here. No wonder they love Ricky and his fans. He says he went to the recent fight between Ronald "Winky" Wright and Paul Williams at the Mandalay Bay Casino in Vegas and was shocked to see only 4,000 people there.

"And, when I think of how many people come over from Britain to support me on a regular basis and have brought the atmosphere to Vegas, this arena, and they're coming again. I think Las Vegas would have been a dull place if it hadn't been for me and my fans the last few years."

Now that you can believe.
Oscar wanted Manny to knock him out

Some found this hard to believe, but it's not. Hatton revealed this week that Oscar De La Hoya told him he was so dispirited in his fight with Manny Pacquiao that he wanted to be knocked out.

"One thing Oscar De La Hoya told me the other week when I spoke to him, he said, 'Whether I left it on the scales, or whatever it was, I felt lifeless. I was thinking to myself, 'Just find one punch and please knock me out. Put me out of my misery.'

"That's how bad he felt," Hatton continued. "And Manny didn't have the power to put him out of his misery. And he didn't have a leg under him, Oscar. So was it a good performance? Oscar's thinking, 'Just knock me out'. That's how bad and drained he felt."

Disbelieving hacks doubted it. But I remember when Jorge Vaca stopped Lloyd Honeyghan at Wembley in 1987, the temperamental Bermondsey fighter admitting later he was feeling sorry for himself during the fight, "and I just didn't care if he knocked me out".

Sometimes, it is the easiest alternative to taking a prolonged hiding. Boxers always find a way to justify their actions. And they always tell more truths after a fight than before. If Ricky loses on Saturday night, it will be interesting to hear if he really did hurt his elbow, if Floyd really was out of sorts, and if those sparring partners really did knock him about in the gym.

[LEGION]

Rumour 3) Billy Graham, whom Hatton sacked as his trainer before the Paul Malignaggi fight, is going through with his threat to sue the fighter for 10% of his earnings in the 10 years he was with him. That cut might be as high as £3m. Graham will remember that Kevin Rooney successfully sued Mike Tyson for a similar amount. Whatever, it's sad to hear Graham tell the Sun: "It's been a fairytale and the fairytale has now been ruined. For me it has, anyway. I loved him."




That's almost brought a tear to me eye Billy going through break-up loss syndrome.





"I miss me boys Ricky and Matthew" JK everyone just being a dick no offense meant