Mayweather VS Hatton

[Mr.Freeze]

Tomorrow night is THE NIGHT!
The fight features two undefeated welterweights with a combined record of 81-0. Mayweather(38-0), a six-division champion and boxing's pound-for-pound best fighter in the world, will face the British icon Hatton(43-0), a two-time world champion and universally recognized as the best junior welterweight in the world today. This will be the biggest match-up of two undefeated welterweights since the record-setting mega-fight between Oscar de la Hoya and Felix Trinidad in 1999.

[slick rick]

I don't think it's bigger than the Mayweather vs De la hoya fight is it? I haven't really heard anything about this fight.

[RJ*]

im going with hatton

[bigdaddydrew123]

hattons in his prime and more explosive and aggressive than delahoya, im pickin mayweather tho, hes just too damn fast, should be a good one cant wait

[Mr.Freeze]

RICKY(FATTON)HATTON will shock the world tonight! i hope:D

[TheBigStink]

I don't think it's bigger than the Mayweather vs De la hoya fight is it? I haven't really heard anything about this fight.

mayweather might lose this one. ;)

[Mr.Freeze]

I don't think it's bigger than the Mayweather vs De la hoya fight is it? I haven't really heard anything about this fight.

From what i heard it is!

[Bowlcut]

I like the Englishman! He is funny!

"Who did you come here to see?" My friend's family is from Liverpool and he was telling me that there are going to be tons of English fans flying in to support him. You gotta love English fans (shit even their soccer hooliganism makes that pussy sport seem tough)

[tarnow]

Damn satellite went down. No fight for me tonight. Lets keep this thread updated.

[Mr.Freeze]

That prick Mayweather won again by ko in round 10 by a punch out of the blu! Hatton was winnig right up to round 6 but then slowly change.i never saw a crowd so loud in my life look at the news for sure they will be tawlking about that crazy english croud!!:D

[turboturist]

LAS VEGAS, Dec. 8th – The loyal British fans who made the flight across the Atlantic Ocean and the U.S. to cheer on Ricky Hatton clapped and sang, beat on drums and blew into brass horns for their hero, they even booed and whistled throughout the singing of the national anthem, but once the bell rang for his challenge of Floyd Mayweather’s welterweight title, the 29-year-old native of Manchester was on his own.

As loud and raucous as the British fans who packed the MGM Grand’s Garden Arena were, they couldn’t fight for Hatton, and after nine and half rounds with Mayweather the 140-pound champ learned that he couldn’t fight or box or punch with the man recognized as the best fighter in the world, pound for pound.

Mayweather knocked out Hatton one minute and 35 seconds into the 10th round to improve his unblemished record to 39-0 (25). Hatton, who was hurt in the eighth round and knocked down twice in the 10th, suffered the first loss of his 10-year career, dropping to 43-1 (31).

Despite the lively atmosphere created by Hatton’s fans, who sang “There’s Only One Ricky Hatton” as early as the DeLeon-Escobedo undercard bout and continued through the Lacy-Manfredo lead-in to the main event, the early rounds of the welterweight championship were generally uneventful. There was more mauling, holding and shoving on the inside – in-between the constant breaks of an over-officious Joe Cortez – than clean punches landed by either fighter.

Hatton landed lead left hooks from the outside before falling into clinches early in the rounds and following a lot of grappling and breaks from the referee Mayweather would then create some space and nail his antagonist with accurate lead right hands. Although the number of clean blows seemed to be even in the first three rounds, it was Mayweather who appeared to be in control, keeping his focus and composure under fire as he always does.

Gradually, round by round, Hatton and his attack began to deteriorate.

In the third round, Hatton suffered a cut under his right eyebrow. In the sixth, he was deducted a point for hitting Mayweather behind the head after the champ stumbled halfway through the ropes. In the seventh, he ate a lightening-fast uppercut followed by jolting straight right just before the bell.

And then Mayweather broke the fight wide open by opening up offensively at the start of the eighth round. Mayweather hurt Hatton with an assortment of clean power punches to the body and head causing the popular Manchester native to stumble about the ring. Hatton sucked it up and resumed his pressing attack midway through the round, perhaps emboldened by his fans that made up the majority of the 16,500 capacity crowd.

However, though Hatton forced Mayweather to the ropes, he proved to be ineffective on in the inside as was in previous rounds. And just as quickly as Hatton got a rise out of his fans for showing grit, Mayweather took them out of the equation by spinning off the ropes and punishing their cornered hero with clean power shots in the final 20 seconds of the round.

Four minutes later, Mayweather hurt Hatton again, this time with a perfectly timed left hook-uppercut hybrid punch that put the challenger down hard near his corner. Hatton beat the count but was clearly on wobbly legs. He absorbed follow-up hooks, body shots and right hands until Cortez had seen enough, stepping in to halt the fight just as Hatton fell to the canvas once more.

After nine rounds the official judges had Mayweather ahead by scores of 88-82 and 89-81 (twice), or seven rounds to two and eight rounds to one.

“I took my time,” Mayweather said of his first knockout in two years. “I fought on the inside and the outside. A true champion can adapt to anything.

“I knew he would try to rough me up, so I didn’t halfway train for this fight. I prepared 100 percent for this fight. He was definitely the toughest competitor I have ever faced.”

Hatton was equally gracious after the fight.

“I felt really strong but I left myself open and he’s better on the inside that I thought he was,” said Hatton. “I thought I was doing well in the fight until he hit me with the shot that cut me. I didn’t feel the body shots until the cut.

“He’s not the biggest welterweight I’ve fought but he’s strong. I don’t think he’s the hardest puncher tonight, but he was clever.”

And it appears that Mayweather is clever enough to know when to call it quits.

When asked about a potential fight with popular undefeated welterweight titlist Miguel Cotto next year, Mayweather replied:

“Cotto’s a hell of a champion and the welterweight division is the best weight class in boxing. There are a lot of great fighters in the welterweight division and the junior middleweight division but I’ve done all I wanted to accomplish in boxing so I’m not thinking about fighting any of them.”

Mayweather “retired” after his split-decision victory over Oscar De La Hoya this past May and obviously came back to the sport he’s dedicated his life to. Maybe this one will stick, maybe it won’t.

If Mayweather does stay retired, he’ll be inducted into the hall of fame the first time his name graces the ballot, and with the money he’s made this year alone, he and his family should be able to live very comfortably for the rest of their lives.

However, Mayweather is only 30 years old, and one has to figure he’s going to quickly miss the incredible rush that he must have felt tonight.

[turboturist]

I never saw the fight but it sure does not sound like Hatton did a whole lot. I was hoping Hatton was gonna take it.

Mayweather annoys the shit out of me, not a big boxing fan but this guy just talks so much you cant get away from it. Surprised by this quote from him though. ""He was definitely the toughest competitor I have ever faced."

[cedric]

I didn't get to watch the fight last night since dishes were down, but http://my.break.com/content/view.aspx?ContentID=414198 has the knock out

[champcar99]

I never saw the fight but it sure does not sound like Hatton did a whole lot. I was hoping Hatton was gonna take it.

Mayweather annoys the shit out of me, not a big boxing fan but this guy just talks so much you cant get away from it. Surprised by this quote from him though. ""He was definitely the toughest competitor I have ever faced."

ditto

[turboturist]

Hope these work

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[turboturist]

Couple of the KO from the undercard.

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I appologize if the pics are not showing up, not sure how else to post them at the moment.

[bigdaddydrew123]

I never saw the fight but it sure does not sound like Hatton did a whole lot. I was hoping Hatton was gonna take it.

Mayweather annoys the shit out of me, not a big boxing fan but this guy just talks so much you cant get away from it. Surprised by this quote from him though. ""He was definitely the toughest competitor I have ever faced."
say what you want about mayweather he backs it up, one thing i heard about him is he trains harder than anybody. that alone gets my respect.he is always respectful when fights are over .

[tarnow]

Here's the torrent of the fight in case you missed it.

http://www.mininova.org/tor/1035954

[Mr.Freeze]

what a sad day:( what downer!

[RJ*]

i was cheering for hatton
until he headbutted the corner
looks like PBF is fo real at or at least very close to #1 PFP