I don't understand when the anti-Hatton brigade or the Pac-lovers go on about Ricky's size, thinking they are being really funny and witty. Just taking the **** out of his height, calling him, as you have, the Mancunian Midget and so on. I mean, I don't care myself but I just don't really get it as the most obvious thing in the World is that Ricky and Manny are both pretty much exactly the same size. Don't geddit:huh:hh:conf
Nice one mate, thanks for those. Y'know though. It really makes me chuckle. Has anyone EVER seen an interview with Ricky Hatton, or even just ever heard the lad speak when he hasn't stumbled over his words? Hehe. I can't get my head around it! He absolutely ALWAYS ****s words up! Every ****ing time! It's like he has never done an interview sober. He's a reasonably intelligent feller (honestly, he is. No really, he is!!) and has a decent enough vocabulary, he understands the words he uses, it isn't a GWB type thing, where he just doesn't understand the words he is saying, or even creates a completely new word, he's just clumsy with his sentences. It does seem to have gotten worse over the last few years, which really really worries me. I just pray (well, I'm agnostic, so I can only pray to Muhammed - Ali, not Alah's messenger) that he isn't getting a bit punchy or brain damaged. It wouldn't be so funny then.
wow hatton is not that fat afterall, he guess he's 160-163 in those pictures..hatton has a broader shoulder and larger chest and it would only get firmer come fight night..
Floyd Sr's latest and greatest: Why he thinks Hatton will beat and most likely knock-out Manny Pacquiao: “Because first of all I’ve got the best fighter and I am the best trainer. That’s the reason right there. I am the best and he is the best. Everything is mapped out. Ricky is trying to be nice, but it’s a simple fact that we gonna bust his ass up. Simple as that. . . we gonna whup his ass. I am going to be honest with you. I think Ricky has a very very good chance of knocking Pacquiao out. I think a knockout is going to be more likely than anything. Ricky’s chances are very great at that. This ain’t no dehydrated Oscar de la Hoya Pacquiao is fighting now. He is fighting with a man that has real strength. A guy that can keep pressure on him, smart pressure, head movement, jabbing on the way in, banging through the body, banging through the head and smothering him at the same time. It’s going to be hard for him to deal with.” On Pacquiao’s trainer Freddie Roach: “Trust me, Freddie (Roach) is a joke Coach Roach wouldn’t dare to approach. Believe me you will find that out. I will be honest with you that’s a bunch of nonsense. They’ve got him in the Hall of Fame, he should be in the Hall of Shame. Let’s tell the truth like it is. You see Freddie Roach train, and you see me train, it’s night and day. It doesn’t even compare. Doesn’t even come close. I mean let’s be real. Tell the truth. Freddie Roach is a joke. And that’s what I say. That’s why his name is Freddie the joke Coach Roach.”
Bunce's Boxing Hour show on the Hatton-PacMan press conference, inlcuding some nice pictures and McPacquiao http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIpx8sr9j5Y
Hatton is pure class and has tremendous respect for Pacquiao. He even says he's his biggest fan! Ricky Hatton: Manny Pacquiao is one of the all time great fighters, period. No doubt about it. I am his biggest fan. I watch all Manny’s fights and I have stayed up many times until the early hours to watch him. He is one of my absolute favourites. That doesn’t mean to say I am not going to beat him. I am in the ring to do a job and that job is to beat Manny at his own game. The Filipino fans are famous around the world for the support they give Manny and that will never change. He is a great person and your country is rightly very proud of what he has achieved in the ring. Nothing can ever take that away. I think the wonderful thing about Manny’s fans is that it shows how boxing can be such a great sport, to bring nations together. I know my fans will treat Manny’s fans with nothing but respect and I know that will be the same the other way around. Boxing fans are the best in the world and Manny should be rightly proud of the amazing support he has got from an amazing nation.
Smiling time is over. Now both teams are predicting strong victories and a finish inside the distance. Hatton said he'll stop Pacquiao between the 6th and 10th round. Roach responded that PacMan will stop the Hitman inside 3 rounds. So, who's going to stop who? :think