Mallinaggi's Broken hand is not fully healed. This fight is not a sure thing. AS long as Pac has not signed a fight with Valero, there's a chance they willl scrap this Pauli-Hatton fight.
More a case of 140lb being a weak division. Paulie is a solid B fighter, hes not elite by any means. He gave Cotto one hell of a fight at 140lb. Cotto is a much better fighter at 147 than 140. That said, Cotto wasnt in any danger of loosing that fight anyways.
Personally I think it's a good fight for Hatton, he can't do anything more then fight the no 1 man in the division, and that is what he is doing. I'm looking forward to the fight, but I do think there is a real chance Pauli might edge this one due to his style. It's no given imo... ... if pauli wins... the pacman fight goes out the window...
I think MSG woulda been better because Paulie would have had some fans there. In Vegas I bet the paulie fans will be outnumbered 10 to 1 easy.
I'm not crazy about paulie's style. but styles make fights, i feel paulie will out box Hatton and bust him up. Hatton is going to look stupid in this fight, just rushing in. it will be the bull and tha matador. AND THE BULL ALWAYS LOSES. MARK MY WORDS
juan urango and herman ngoudjo have both won eliminators, so i assume they will fight for the vacant title.
This will be a painful one to watch with Paulies hair in the way and Hattons constant wrestling....still could be entertaining...... If the fights in Britian the ref will do everthing except suck rickys **** in the ring......the Lazcano fight was an officiating circus.......and limeys get mad because Cortez actually forced Ricky to box instead of wrestleatsch what do they thing this is boxing?:-(