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    Default Re: only one man in the history of this sport...

    Quote Originally Posted by AdamGB View Post
    Sure Hatton may have a large crowd... but those are just numbers... You can't say that no fighter ever invoked so much passion or emotion though.

    Fighters like Ali's words and actions moved and inspired people on a level beyond boxing. I don't know what about Hatton exactly creates unrivaled passion or emotion? Being a decent boxer and being vocal about your love of darts and cheese pasties?

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    This. Having been at the Hatton-Pacquiao weigh in & fight, I can safely say the vast majority knew fuck all about boxing. Mosley got booed because they couldn't place him immediately, Hopkins got booed by virtue of Calzaghe (who was for some reason re-nicknamed 'Jumpin Joe Calzaghe') & the shrugs & confusion when Juan Manuel Marquez said it all about the number of 'boxing fans' among them.

    Plus the amount of them trying to shadowbox having clearly never been near a boxing club in their life was laughable. Truly some of the most obnoxious fans I've ever met, it's lucky for them the Pacquiao fans were almost as unlikeable.

    Hatton's fans are basically the same tools who go to England matches abroad & start throwing cafe tables at local waiters for 'being foreign' (witnessed that particular gem in Frankfurt in 2006).

    Mate i think that is the most ridiculous statement on this thread !!

    I was was in Vegas for Rickys 1st, 3rd and 4th Vegas fights and did not see one incident when Brits, sorry Hatton fans throwing tables or chairs or any other item around.

    Granted you have your opinion, but i can catagorically say no incidents occured that I witnessed, so tarring us with that brush is simply small minded !
    He was talking about the type of people, not their specific actions.

    For example I'd never heard such a large boxing crowd boo another country's national anthem before.... certainatly not that audable.


    As I was one of the english men in the arena that night, I personally was booing Mayweather's image on the Big screen, not the anthem, the is a huge difference bud

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    Default Re: only one man in the history of this sport...

    Quote Originally Posted by Mattyhitman View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by AdamGB View Post
    Sure Hatton may have a large crowd... but those are just numbers... You can't say that no fighter ever invoked so much passion or emotion though.

    Fighters like Ali's words and actions moved and inspired people on a level beyond boxing. I don't know what about Hatton exactly creates unrivaled passion or emotion? Being a decent boxer and being vocal about your love of darts and cheese pasties?

    Quote Originally Posted by Mattyhitman View Post


    Mate i think that is the most ridiculous statement on this thread !!

    I was was in Vegas for Rickys 1st, 3rd and 4th Vegas fights and did not see one incident when Brits, sorry Hatton fans throwing tables or chairs or any other item around.

    Granted you have your opinion, but i can catagorically say no incidents occured that I witnessed, so tarring us with that brush is simply small minded !
    He was talking about the type of people, not their specific actions.

    For example I'd never heard such a large boxing crowd boo another country's national anthem before.... certainatly not that audable.


    As I was one of the english men in the arena that night, I personally was booing Mayweather's image on the Big screen, not the anthem, the is a huge difference bud
    ohh, well i was one of the millions that laughed their ass off when Hatton went head first into the ring post

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    Default Re: only one man in the history of this sport...

    Quote Originally Posted by Mattyhitman View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by AdamGB View Post
    Sure Hatton may have a large crowd... but those are just numbers... You can't say that no fighter ever invoked so much passion or emotion though.

    Fighters like Ali's words and actions moved and inspired people on a level beyond boxing. I don't know what about Hatton exactly creates unrivaled passion or emotion? Being a decent boxer and being vocal about your love of darts and cheese pasties?

    Quote Originally Posted by Mattyhitman View Post


    Mate i think that is the most ridiculous statement on this thread !!

    I was was in Vegas for Rickys 1st, 3rd and 4th Vegas fights and did not see one incident when Brits, sorry Hatton fans throwing tables or chairs or any other item around.

    Granted you have your opinion, but i can catagorically say no incidents occured that I witnessed, so tarring us with that brush is simply small minded !
    He was talking about the type of people, not their specific actions.

    For example I'd never heard such a large boxing crowd boo another country's national anthem before.... certainatly not that audable.


    As I was one of the english men in the arena that night, I personally was booing Mayweather's image on the Big screen, not the anthem, the is a huge difference bud
    that's hardly any better.

    It's equally as ignorant not being aware of how your actions will be percieved based on your situation.

    Sort of the equivalent of thinking of something funny during a funeral and then laughing out loud about it.

    "Oh no... I wasn't laughing at the deceased guv, I read something funny this morning... and... um... I was just... um..."

    But basically the long and short of it is, as one of the Englishmen there, you were one of the Englishmen there, so speak for yourself... bud.

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