Pacquiao Vs Hatton - KOD

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Hatton joined the family carpet business on leaving school, but after he cut four of his fingers with a Stanley knife, his father made him a salesman to prevent him from losing his fingers.:scared

Hatton relinquished his IBF belt on 29 March, 2006 after refusing to fulfil a mandatory defence against number one contender Naoufel Ben Rabah, because he intended to move up to the welterweight class.:SIB

On 13 May 2006.[12] Hatton won the WBA crown from Collazo but struggled with Collazo's slick south-paw style and the extra weight.

It turned out to be one of the toughest fights of his career, with some boxing analysts believing Collazo won the fight.

Floyd Mayweather Senior has revealed he may have to quit because of ill health. Mayweather has a lung disease called sarcoidosis, which he says has got worse over the last few years. The dusty, dry heat of Las Vegas worsens his condition and he has returned home to Michigan to convalesce following his seven-week training camp with Hatton for his fight with Paulie Malignaggi. Mayweather, 55, coughs every few seconds and after trying to treat his condition with steroids, now uses herbal remedies and ointments.

"It's tough and I don't see me carrying on for another two years," he said. "If you don't find something that works for you, you're going to have a bad day. It can attack you at any time. I'm training these fighters and exercise is good. But it seems the more I exercise, the worse my lungs get.":scared
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Hatton is sometimes referred to by boxing fans as "Ricky Fatton"[37] because he's been known to allow himself to weigh as much as 175 to 180 pounds (35 to 40 pounds over his fight weight) when he's not in training for a fight. Ever since Hatton turned professional, he has always opted to eat a full English breakfast before fights - his favourite place in Hyde is The Butty Box in Mottram Road, where he was interviewed by Gaby Logan for Inside Sport; and he is known to drink Guinness on Thursday night when he plays darts for the New Inn. Hatton defends his diet, citing that he plans to retire within the next four major bouts - experts have used his ill-balanced diet, akin to Jake La Motta's ballooning up between fights, to explain his poor performances in recent fights, and nature to tire towards the end of fights.:0corn
Hatton also appeared on ITV1's daytime show Loose Women in August 2007, stating that the reason why he puts on weight between fights is because "I have a lot on my plate at the moment".:scared
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By Chuck Culpepper, Special to The Times December 5, 2007



MANCHESTER, England -- "Three sausage, three bacon, two hash browns, two black pudding . . ."

Wait, a point of information: Black pudding is a sausage made from pig's blood et al., but now let's continue with manager Alison Threadgold of the wee Butty Box caf? in Hyde on the thoroughly unpretentious eastern edge of Manchester, as she reels off the items in her menu's "Megabreakfast" . . . " . . . two slices of Spam, two eggs, beans, mushrooms, and tomatoes, and . . . " This Lipitor daydream goes for ?4.50 ($9.26 as of Tuesday) and doubles as Ricky Hatton's favorite meal, but hold on, she's not finished . . . " . . . two pieces of toast, and tea or coffee."

So the "or" represents the lone restraint. Hatton used to down the "Mega" traditionally between adoring well-wishes on fight mornings, and breakfast at the Butty Box surely ranks among the most telltale things about Hatton.

It would be the kind of outmoded sidewalk business that suburban shopping malls have slaughtered, a bastion of modesty with a painted black sign with neat pink lettering, five tables and three women toiling inside, the Chinese Delight restaurant next door, Bravo Seamstress Services after that, and Vittorio Tansella & Son Gents Hair Stylists just across Mottram Road.

"No airs or graces," they say about the Butty Box, and about Hyde, and about Manchester, and always, always about Hatton.

It's not just that he'll tell about his fondness for a Guinness or several or for a fat gram or several hundred; it's the way-it-is tone that craves no approval and dreads no disapproval.

"I don't lie about a single thing," Hatton told reporters last week on a conference call. "People say, 'Do you like to have a drink of alcohol?' and I say, 'Yes, yes, of course, I love to.' 'And do you like fat foods?' 'Yes.' 'And do you put weight on?' 'Yes.' And these people are maybe a little bit more vain, would probably not admit to that, and I do. "And I think with what you see with me, you see an honesty in my life, the way I am, period. There's honesty in the way I train for me fights."


Manchester: England's third-largest city. The world's first industrialized city. Home to a phenomenal late-20th century music scene. Its sky seldom seems to smile. It's home to much of the world's gray. Its winter wind can be hateful. Historian A.J.P. Taylor called Manchester "the only place in England which escapes our characteristic vice of snobbery."
George Orwell went for "the belly and guts of the nation."Noel Gallagher of the Manchester band Oasis told the BBC in 1998, "The thing about Manchester is . . . it all comes from here." He pointed to the heart

His father, Ray, played for Manchester City in pre-lavish soccer days, and still has the carpet business where his first-born pugilist once worked. His mother, Carol, still works a carpet stall at the Glossop Market in the Peak District to the east, and has enough moxie to admit to British reporters she endures her son's bouts by gracing her water bottle with one mixed drink of the vodka persuasion. A mayor of Hyde once thanked Hatton at a ceremony for "remaining real." Tommy Murtagh, the owner of the New Inn where the darts-team roster includes the 5-foot-7 Hatton, says he's "one of the lads when he's out with the lads, and if you saw him in the pub and you didn't know him, you wouldn't think he was anything special."



Around age 10, his father took him to a boxing gym where the owner, Ted Peate, took a look and said to Ray, "Look at the way that bloody bag is moving." Early footage of the lad punching shows stunning natural prowess for a skinny blond kid. He trained during teen years in the concrete-walled basement of the New Inn while his parents owned it before Murtagh. Owen can still remember the sounds from below -- "Bam, bam, bam" -- mixed with "all the growls he makes."


Murtagh remembers him removing his school uniform in afternoons and stocking shelves while getting teased about loving Man City to his brother's Man United. Long about age 15, he started working with Billy Graham, his understanding Manchester trainer with the copiously tattooed arms.

The people around Hyde adore touting him. He gets a "huge rush" from being called "the people's champion." The people love his lack of entourage. They love that he walks into the New Inn alone with, "Y'all right, mate?" or jogs on Stockport Road behind the housing estate and, Mines said, "People wave at him in the car as he passes and he just waves back." "He's luv-lehhhh," said Threadgold of the Butty Box, local dialect for "lovely."

Big ol' "megas" upcoming at the Butty Box.
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Ricky Hatton v Manny Pacquiao: 'Pacman' too fast, says trainer Freddie Roach

Freddie Roach has trained 23 world champions and plots to oversee the unravelling of Ricky Hatton through Filipino Manny Pacquiao here at the MGM Grand on Saturday night. :0corn

By Gareth A Davies, Boxing Correspondent, in Las Vegas
Last Updated: 5:07PM BST 28 Apr 2009

The feted coach, voted several times as trainer of the year by the sport's insiders in the United States, also holds with some certitude the belief that 22-year-old Briton Amir Khan will be his "next superstar".

Roach's renowned Wild Card Gym, in Hollywood, California, merits the entitlement of a Hollywood Dreamworks factory for great fighters. British boxers have either benefitted or faced belittlement in the last two decades as a result of Roach's quasi-intellectual and strategic capacity to understand fighters and the application of their ring skills. :SIB

Among his charges Steve Collins, Mike Tyson, Oscar de la Hoya, Bernard Hopkins, Manny Pacquiao, and latterly, tyro Khan.

In the Nineties, Roach was instrumental in instilling the self-belief into Irishman Steve Collins that he would become a world champion. Collins went on to defeat Chris Eubank and Nigel Benn. The stuff of legend. It is all based on the methodology Roach learnt under the late, great Eddie Futch, regarded as one of finest trainers.

"Mr Futch had trained me for ten years. We spoke the same language. He was special. He taught me to look at every fighter, to develop a relationship with them, and most importantly of all, that you can't change people. That's why I've said all along that Floyd [Mayweather] is no good for Ricky."

"It's all about trust with trainer and boxer. Mr Futch had so many stories you had to pack a lunch when you sat down with him. They all had a message. He had sparred with the great Joe Louis; he grew up with Berry Gordy, the founder of Tamla-Motown. He was special. Sometimes I think there's a decline in boxing because we don't have those guys passing it down any more. Mr Futch was a role model for me."

Originally from Boston, Roach, 49, who has the symptoms of early Parkinson's Disease, grew up in a tough family, from a rough neighbourhood. "My parents had seven kids, five of us boys, and we shared one room. My dad was a fighter, a very physical guy. He talked with his fists. We had a lot of fights as kids. People would step outside to sort things out. These days it's very different. California's not like that. You get sued. Or shot."

His father made him train from the age of six, even though he hated boxing at first. But the work ethic rubbed off. Roach spends six days a week, often up to 14 hours a day, working in the gym. "I can't say I have a job. Boxing is my hobby. On Sundays, I watch movies, re-group."

In the last eight years, Roach has overseen the rise and rise of Pacquiao, the most popular Filipino alive, through five weight divisions. "He's still getting better as a boxer. We've been told all along that Ricky is bigger, stronger, but I disagree.

"Take a look on the night. Manny isn't reckless like he used to be. And he also has speed. And speed kills in the ring. Ricky's tough but his champion's heart won't be enough for Manny's natural speed and power:00hour :00hour
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Pacquiao to win by KO, TKO or Dq
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books fear the KO by Manny as line drops

 

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Hatton doesnt have it all his way, he cuts too easy and isnt great against southpaws

For every punch Hatton lands , Pac will land 4 punchs.

Hatton cannot hit what he cannot see. His eyes get swollen before round 4 and he is in deep shit in this fight.

Pacs stamina will rule and hard head shots take Hatton down.

I am really hoping Cortez is the man in the middle!!!

Hatton has less fights and KOs. If you look close at his record it looks like a bunch of taxi drivers and band leaders.

Hattons win against malignaggi was not really convincing, pacquiao is no malignaggi and is faster and quicker than floyd mayweather.

Pacman needs to stay off the ropes,

Pacman brings the fight into the middle of the ring and body shots will be hard to come by for Hatton.

Hatton found out fighting Mayweather
Hatton will have problems landing power shots against Pac because of fast foot speed.

Pac showed speed in the De la Hoya fight; that
was at 147. After shedding 7 pounds, pacman will be even faster.

The last two fighters who fought pacman suffered facial reconstruction in the middle rounds.

GO PACMAN !:00hour

 

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Brooklyn's Daniel Jacobs on the Pacquiao-Hatton undercard

Rising middleweight star and one of boxing's hottest prospects, Daniel "The Golden Child" Jacobs,who hails from Brooklyn, has been added to the much anticipated May 2nd pay-per-view undercard of Manny Pacquiao vs. Ricky Hatton at MGM Grand in Las Vegas. The highly touted prospect will be featured in the third of four pay-per-view undercard bouts against former two-time world amateur champion Mike Walker.

"I'm very excited that I have the opportunity to fight again this week," said Jacobs. "I'm in shape and coming off a big knockout win, so I'm ready for the fight with Walker. It's an honor for me to get this type of exposure on the undercard of the year's biggest card. I promise that no one will be disappointed with my performance on May 2nd."


Here's the press realease from Golden Boy:

"Daniel Jacobs is one of the most impressive young fighters I have seen and we are extremely happy to have him on the May 2nd undercard," said Oscar de la Hoya, President of Golden Boy Promotions. "He is young, hungry and showing early signs being a championship caliber fighter. Fans already have a great line up with the May 2nd pay-per-view, but the addition of Daniel Jacobs makes this card even more exciting."

Brooklyn native Daniel Jacobs, (15-0, 14 KO's) is arguably the most exciting prospect climbing the ranks in boxing today. He has impressed the boxing world with his speed and his sensational knockout power, ending 12 of his 15 professional bouts in two rounds or less. The former Two-Time National Golden Gloves Champion and U.S. Amateur Champion turned pro in December of 2007 and has not skipped a beat since.

Mike Walker (19-1-2, 12 KO's) from Chicago, returns to the ring after defeating two-time world title challenger Antwun Echols on October 3, 2008 in an 8 round bout. Walker was originally scheduled to fight highly rated junior middleweight contender James Kirkland who was forced to withdraw from the bout.

The rest of the pay-per-view undercard features World Boxing Council (WBC) Super Featherweight Champion Humberto Soto of Mexico who will defend his title against Canadian contender Benoit Gaudet, former two-time world amateur champion and Russian Olympian Matt Korobov facing Rodrigo Aguiar of Las Vegas in a middleweight bout and former world amateur champion, Cuban southpaw Erislandy Lara against Chris Gray of Baton Rouge, Louisiana in a junior middleweight bout
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It's very simply. Speed. There is a cliche in many sports that says, there is no substitute for speed. The same in boxing. A great fighter must have at least one of these traits -- speed or power. Manny Pacquiao has both.

As we've seen in his previous fights -- most notably against Floyd Mayweather Jr. -- Hatton does not cope well with speed. And all the training and technique that Floyd Mayweather Sr. teaches him will not help. To neutralize Pac Man's speed, Hatton would have to overwhelm him with his own attack. It's a nice theory, but no one has been able to accomplish it thus far.

As the fight enters the later stages, the combination of Pac Man's speed and power will begin to take a toll on Hatton.

Down goes Frazier ! Down Goes Frazier !

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[RowdyRider]

the PAC-MAN wins this before it gets to the 9th...

Hatton goes down early, IMO

 

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thats the way I see Sunday morning coming down on Hattons head.

sure hope thats what happens

 

[DerrickTulips]

the PAC-MAN wins this before it gets to the 9th...

Hatton goes down early, IMO

Pac man wins this fight, then dodges mosely to get to floyd to see who is the best fighter of the past 20 years

 

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Gonna tail you here, KOD. I smell money. It smells green:toast:

 

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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.":SIB

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.:violin:

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.":sadwave:

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.:00hour

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Sorry but you do not get rocked by sparring partners in training for a big fight, if you are top of your game. What you want to read is that Ricky knocked a few sparring partners the fawk out.

Pacman aint no sparring partner.

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Pacquiao is reserved about the historical implications of a win Saturday, but he is certainly aware of what is at stake.

"It is very important for me to win [titles] in six different divisions for the people of my country," said Pacquiao, who has always dedicated his accomplishments to the Philippines. "Being a six-division champion, if that happens, people will want to put my name in boxing history, and that will be my legacy.":scared

Roach, who took over Pacquiao's training after he had already been flyweight champion. "He's just been getting bigger and stronger. He's a lot happier when he's not making weight. He's healthier, he gets to eat what he wants, and I feel when I have a happy fighter that's not struggling to make weight, it's a good thing. And his powers come up with him. Manny Pacquiao, he's a machine. He is the hardest worker I've ever seen in my life, and that's why he's the best fighter in the world today.":00hour
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Find the emotion in sports wagering

I honestly give Hatton no chance to win this fight

What I am banking on to win the money will be Pacman sending Hatton down like a clown with the KO.

I cant wait, should be a great fight

 

[crow]

See what Hitler thinks of the Pacman :mj07:

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If KOD had been around then, Hitler would have had a much easier time with his boxing wagers

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"Don't worry; next time he won't bet the whole of Germany against Pac" :mj07: :mj07:

I have Pac inside HUGE, hedged by Pac by dec.
Every reputable boxing expert i know picks Pac: .
. the Maxboxing crew
. Graham
. Doug Fisher
. Dwyer from gamblersadvisory

I don't know who Evans picked, by i'm pretty sure he's on Pac inside the distance

Only odd pick is by Bert Sugar ( hatton by dec)

But that's not to worry: Pac is assured of victory after Atlas picked Hatton...:mj06:

+I have a medium bet on Mc Dermott- pac inside, hedged by Williams on points.

 

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