Offical Manny Pacquiao VS Ricky Hatton May 2nd 9pmET/6pmPT HBO PPV

LAS VEGAS -- Respectfully. That is how junior welterweight world champion Ricky Hatton and pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao have conducted themselves toward each other during the buildup to their super fight.

Their trainers? Not so much.

While Hatton and Pacquiao, who is gunning for a world title in a record-tying sixth weight class, will meet in the main event at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on Saturday (HBO PPV, 9 p.m. ET) in a much-anticipated showdown, Hatton's trainer, the irrepressible Floyd Mayweather Sr., and Pacquiao trainer Freddie Roach sound as if they are getting ready to throw down in an undercard fight.

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Denise Truscello/Getty ImagesManny Pacquiao, left, and Ricky Hatton have been on their best behavior. Their trainers, however, are a different story.

They even did a traditional staredown and posed together à la the main event after Wednesday's final news conference, much to the delight of the media.

Hatton (45-1, 32 KOs), who demolished former titleholder Paulie Malignaggi in a November title defense, and Pacquiao (48-3-2, 36 KOs), who sent Oscar De La Hoya into retirement with a December pummeling in a welterweight fight, are the kinds of fighters who like to let their fists do the talking inside the ring. They are confident that they will win and don't spend time before the fight making disparaging remarks about their opponents.

Mayweather and Roach, however, have been at each other throughout the promotion. From the kickoff news conferences in Hatton's native England to their weekly comments about each other during HBO's "24/7" series, there's been just as much talk about Roach vs. Mayweather as there has been about Hatton vs. Pacquiao.

"Freddie 'The Joke Coach' Roach. That's what I think he is. He's a joke of a coach," Mayweather said, repeating for the umpteenth time his nickname for Roach.

Although Roach is typically far more laid back than Mayweather, he has also gotten into the act.

"A lot of people ask me if I'm worried about Manny fighting Hatton since Hatton has never lost a fight at 140 pounds," Roach said. "As long as Floyd Mayweather is in Hatton's corner, I have absolutely no concerns. It's not like his brother Roger is training him. Floyd training Hatton for this fight is our biggest advantage."

With the fighters taking the high road, trainers bashing each other will have to do. They've given the media all kinds of tasty and inflammatory quotes.

TV lineup for the Top Rank and Golden Boy Promotions HBO PPV card from Las Vegas' MGM Grand Garden Arena on Saturday night (9 ET, $49.95):

• Junior welterweights: Ricky Hatton (45-1, 32 KOs) vs. Manny Pacquiao (48-3-2, 36 KOs), for Hatton's junior welterweight title

• Junior lightweights: Humberto Soto (47-7-2, 30 KOs) vs. Benoit Gaudet (20-1, 7 KOs), for Soto's junior lightweight title

• Middleweights: Daniel Jacobs (15-0, 14 KOs) vs. Michael Walker (19-1-2, 12 KOs), 8 rounds

• Middleweights: Matvey Korobov (4-0, 4 KOs) vs. Anthony Bartinelli (20-12-2, 13 KOs), 4 rounds

• Junior middleweights: Erislandy Lara (4-0, 3 KOs) vs. Chris Gray (11-7, 1 KO), 4 rounds
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Mayweather has disrespected Roach ever since De La Hoya parted ways with Mayweather to go with Roach for his fight against Floyd Mayweather Jr. in May 2007.

"Who has he really worked with," Mayweather said of Roach. "He had a lot of big fighters, but he hasn't done anything with them. What has he done with them? He got one man in his court; it's Pacquiao. Who else do you know that he got that he's done something with? And what fighter has he made? I made my son, and who has he made? He hasn't made anybody. Explain it? That's all I can tell you, man; the guy ain't made anybody. Simple."

Roach's response?

"My first champion, Virgil Hill, I started him out from his first pro fight," Roach said of one of his numerous champions. "I mean, I've made a lot of good fighters out there. He made his son through birth, but Roger [Mayweather, Floyd Sr.'s brother] made him as a fighter. So, it doesn't bother me."

De La Hoya, who worked with Mayweather for several years and with Roach for one fight, said they're both good trainers, although when asked to pick one over the other, he went with Mayweather.

"Both of them will get you in tip-top shape," said De La Hoya, whose company, Golden Boy, promotes Hatton and is co-promoting the fight with Top Rank. "They'll train you, they'll make you run many miles, they'll make sure you're in the best shape of your life for that fight. The difference with Freddie and Mayweather is, I think, Mayweather is more technically sound when it comes to using different combinations with the mitt work. Freddie, he'll have you throw combinations, but it's a repeated combination over and over and over. The strategy really isn't 100 percent.

"I love Freddie Roach to death, I really do. Nothing personal to him, but from my experience, Floyd really had me at the top of my game."

When the promoters put Roach and Mayweather on a recent teleconference with the media to discuss the fight, they knew what they were doing. They knew they would get a lot of jawing back and forth between them, and they were right.

When one reporter asked who the better fighter was, since both boxed professionally before becoming trainers, Mayweather spoke up quickly.

"I most definitely was the better fighter than Freddie Roach. As a matter of fact, I've got a poster down at the gym where Freddie's on my undercard," Mayweather said.

Said Roach, "Well, you know what, I tried really hard. I fought on TV a lot more than him. I was a lot more popular than him."

Then they got into it.

Mayweather: "You were a bum."

Roach: "You know, his brother [Roger] was a great fighter, but he lost to my fighter Marlon Starling twice. He got his !+@ kicked twice. So, how good was he? He was OK."

Mayweather: "You weren't OK. You were a bum."

Roach: "So you think."

Mayweather: "You got whopped so much, Freddie. Come on, Freddie."

Roach: "You're the expert. Hey, Floyd, can I ask you a question?"

Mayweather: "Yes, sir."

Roach: "When I get presented the [2008] trainer of the year award [in June], I want you to present that to me this year because that's as close as you'll get to it."

Mayweather: "We're gonna see about that, Freddie. We'll see about that."

Roach: "I'd like for you to do that."

Mayweather: "And what are you going to do when I win it, Freddie?"

Roach: "I've won it three times. You've never won it. You're not going to win it ever."

While Roach seems genuinely peeved by Mayweather's putdowns, Mayweather seems to have a bit of a glint in his eye when he talks smack.

"It's not animosity, man," Mayweather said. "I'm having fun, whether you believe it or not. I'm having fun with this. I'm not afraid of Freddie at all or anything. I'm having fun with this.

"This is a build-up. That's all it is, man, to me. Everybody wants their fighter to win. But with me it's talking. Even if you look back with [Muhammad] Ali when he was doing his thing, everything is a build-up, man. Some guys get in each other's faces and never get out of each other's. But this is something with me. I'm having fun with this. I mean, I'm looking to win the fight and I'm sincere about winning the fight but as far as me, the animosity and the bad talk, I don't have nothing against Freddie right now. When this fight's over, me and Freddie can still shake hands and hug and you know. I don't have nothing against Freddie. I really think Freddie's a nice guy, but right now, this is warfare and I'm looking forward to my man winning, and I'm gonna do whatever it takes for him to win."

Roach made fun of Mayweather's stint in jail. Mayweather mocked Roach for being manhandled once in a sparring session by Roger Mayweather. The trainers have praised the other man's fighter, just not each other.

"I think Manny's a very good fighter," Mayweather said. "I think he can be a much better fighter, though, under different circumstances. But Manny's a very good fighter. I can't take anything away from Manny. I can think of a lot more things he can do that's he's not doing. So, you'll have to take that up with his trainer."

Real or manufactured, the Roach-Mayweather battle is good for the promotion, according to De La Hoya.

"It's huge. It's priceless because you're not going to get Ricky Hatton and Manny Pacquiao talking bad about each other," De La Hoya said. "You're going to get some great action inside the ring, but people have to know about the fight, and we can do that through Floyd Sr. and Freddie Roach. Apparently, it's become a Floyd Sr.-Freddie Roach circus, but at the end of Saturday night, we'll see the bear and lion going inside the ring and duke it out."

But Saturday night isn't here just yet, so the trainers are still battling:

Mayweather: "My man's ready, and I know Freddie 'The Joke Coach' Roach is scared right now."

Roach: "Oh, he is?"

Mayweather: "And he's probably going to go crawl up in some hole somewhere."

Roach: "Enough with this dueling, man. It's old."

Mayweather: "It's the truth, man. You the Roach. … You see me come [Saturday] so we can fight. You understand me?"

Roach: "You want me come get me? You know where I live."

Mayweather: "I've got you, Freddie."

On and on it goes.

Dan Rafael is the boxing writer for ESPN.com
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LAS VEGAS - It's an amalgam of physical skills and non-measurables that make a boxer great. But ask nearly any fighter worth his salt which two skills he'd want to possess an abundance of and it's a sure bet that more than 98 percent would choose speed and power.

It's that clash between speed and power that has led to some of boxing's greatest and most anticipated matches.

In 1964, it was Cassius Clay's speed against Sonny Liston's power. Ten years later, it was Muhammad Ali's hand speed against George Foreman's fearsome right hand.

In 1987, the world couldn't wait to see the small, but speedy, Sugar Ray Leonard take on the large and powerful Marvin Hagler.

And in 1999, one of the quickest welterweights of his time, Oscar De La Hoya, met one of the hardest-hitting, Felix Trinidad, in a match of unbeaten champions that was dubbed "The Fight of the Millennium."

The 2009 version of the Fight of the Century pits speed demon Manny Pacquiao against power-punching Ricky Hatton at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on Saturday for supremacy in the super lightweight division in a bout that is expected to sell about 1 million pay-per-view units in the United States.

For all the talk of Pacquiao's blazing speed and Hatton's pulverizing power, though, it's probably worth noting that Pacquiao's last loss was to a man who wasn't particularly fast and Hatton's only defeat was a knockout at the hands of a man not known for his power. In boxing, things are often not as they seem and such is the case with this year's version of the Fight of the Century.

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There is no doubt that Pacquiao is faster and quicker than Hatton and that Hatton is stronger and more powerful than Pacquiao.

But Pacquiao was overwhelmingly speedier than Erik Morales, who, in 2005 in the first bout of their magnificent three-fight trilogy, overcame that disadvantage to win a unanimous decision. And while Floyd Mayweather Jr. was never known as a power puncher, he landed enough clean shots to put Hatton down twice and stop him in the 10th round of their 2007 battle.

So Pacquiao's speed may not be enough by itself to lift him past Hatton. And Hatton can't count on bullying Pacquiao en route to his 46th victory in 47 fights.

In essence, that's what provides the intrigue in this fight.

Lightweight contender Amir Khan has sparred with Pacquiao and is a longtime friend of Hatton's. And while he raves about Pacquiao's speed, he warned that Pacquiao ought not to dismiss Hatton's speed.

"Manny's very, very fast, very quick, and his hand speed is so good he throws punches you can't see," Khan said. "But Ricky has gotten a lot quicker, having [trainer] Floyd Mayweather [Sr.] in his corner."

Hatton grinned devilishly as a reporter prefaced a question by alluding to Pacquiao's wide advantage in hand speed. He has consistently insisted that he's not given enough credit for his fast hands and said he'll surprise fans and media, if not Pacquiao, with them on Saturday.

Because Pacquiao holds his hands unusually high, Hatton will undoubtedly play to his own strength and go hard at Pacquiao's midsection. Hatton is one of the game's strongest body punchers and in 1997 Medgoen Lukchaopormasak knocked Pacquiao out with a body shot in a flyweight bout.

Attacking the body is a tried-and-true tactic to slow a faster man down. Hatton, though, has become convinced he'll be able to match Pacquiao's speed and negate one of his opponent's perceived advantages right off the bat.

"I strongly believe I'm as fast as Manny," Hatton said.

He won't have to be as quick, or as fast, as Pacquiao if he's simply quick enough to cut off the ring and get into position to get his shots off before Pacquiao skitters away. Leonard raved about Pacquiao's speed, noting he has "incredibly fast hands." De La Hoya, who retired after being stopped by Pacquiao in December, warned that Pacquiao isn't simply a speed demon.

"Manny is very fast and I knew he would be," De La Hoya said. "To me, though, what makes him so good is the combination. He has a combination of speed and power that you usually don't face too often."

Mayweather Sr. insists he's not concerned by Pacquiao's speed and quickness. He once mocked Hatton as a human punching bag when Hatton was preparing to fight his son in 2007, but said once they began to work together last year, he was pleasantly surprised to find that Hatton not only had better skills than he imagined but that he is also a fast learner.

And while not even Mayweather would insist Hatton is faster and quicker, he did say it's not going to be an issue in the fight.

"Ricky is not slow, number one," Mayweather said. "But it's not all about speed. It's about timing. If you know boxing, you know that timing is the most important thing. And Ricky has very good timing."

Hatton's perceived advantage going into the fight is that he is the physically bigger and stronger man who not only can take a punch better than the smaller men Pacquiao has faced, but who will deliver more punishment with his blows.

De La Hoya seemingly had those advantages as well, but his skills were eroded by the time he met Pacquiao and so Pacquiao was never really in danger from his punches.

But Leonard, another fighter who jumped numerous weight classes, said there is a limit to how far a boxer can move up. He said he knew he'd gone as far as he could go when he met Donnie Lalonde in 1988 in a bout for both the super middleweight and light heavyweight titles.

"He hurt me with every punch he threw," said Leonard, who nonetheless won the bout with a ninth-round TKO. "I knew I wasn't going up any more, because at that level, it was an entirely different thing in terms of punching power."

In boxing, though, speed translates to power and a fighter gets hurt the most by the punches he does not see coming.

Pacquiao mesmerized De La Hoya by moving into range, letting go with a lightning-fast combination and then moving back out of range before De La Hoya could get off. It's a tactic he'll try to use frequently on Saturday.

"We can talk about who is better here and who is better there, but when it comes down to it, what matters is the complete package and I think I have the better fighter," Pacquiao trainer Freddie Roach said. "I have a lot of respect for Ricky, but Manny has it all. You've heard all this talk about us as trainers and Mayweather hasn't shut his mouth, but I'm not fighting and Floyd's not fighting. At the end of the day, it's Manny and Ricky who are doing the fighting and Manny right now has more skills than anyone out there."
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LAS VEGAS - It's an amalgam of physical skills and non-measurables that make a boxer great. But ask nearly any fighter worth his salt which two skills he'd want to possess an abundance of and it's a sure bet that more than 98 percent would choose speed and power.

It's that clash between speed and power that has led to some of boxing's greatest and most anticipated matches.

In 1964, it was Cassius Clay's speed against Sonny Liston's power. Ten years later, it was Muhammad Ali's hand speed against George Foreman's fearsome right hand.

In 1987, the world couldn't wait to see the small, but speedy, Sugar Ray Leonard take on the large and powerful Marvin Hagler.

And in 1999, one of the quickest welterweights of his time, Oscar De La Hoya, met one of the hardest-hitting, Felix Trinidad, in a match of unbeaten champions that was dubbed "The Fight of the Millennium."

The 2009 version of the Fight of the Century pits speed demon Manny Pacquiao against power-punching Ricky Hatton at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on Saturday for supremacy in the super lightweight division in a bout that is expected to sell about 1 million pay-per-view units in the United States.

For all the talk of Pacquiao's blazing speed and Hatton's pulverizing power, though, it's probably worth noting that Pacquiao's last loss was to a man who wasn't particularly fast and Hatton's only defeat was a knockout at the hands of a man not known for his power. In boxing, things are often not as they seem and such is the case with this year's version of the Fight of the Century.

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There is no doubt that Pacquiao is faster and quicker than Hatton and that Hatton is stronger and more powerful than Pacquiao.

But Pacquiao was overwhelmingly speedier than Erik Morales, who, in 2005 in the first bout of their magnificent three-fight trilogy, overcame that disadvantage to win a unanimous decision. And while Floyd Mayweather Jr. was never known as a power puncher, he landed enough clean shots to put Hatton down twice and stop him in the 10th round of their 2007 battle.

So Pacquiao's speed may not be enough by itself to lift him past Hatton. And Hatton can't count on bullying Pacquiao en route to his 46th victory in 47 fights.

In essence, that's what provides the intrigue in this fight.

Lightweight contender Amir Khan has sparred with Pacquiao and is a longtime friend of Hatton's. And while he raves about Pacquiao's speed, he warned that Pacquiao ought not to dismiss Hatton's speed.

"Manny's very, very fast, very quick, and his hand speed is so good he throws punches you can't see," Khan said. "But Ricky has gotten a lot quicker, having [trainer] Floyd Mayweather [Sr.] in his corner."

Hatton grinned devilishly as a reporter prefaced a question by alluding to Pacquiao's wide advantage in hand speed. He has consistently insisted that he's not given enough credit for his fast hands and said he'll surprise fans and media, if not Pacquiao, with them on Saturday.

Because Pacquiao holds his hands unusually high, Hatton will undoubtedly play to his own strength and go hard at Pacquiao's midsection. Hatton is one of the game's strongest body punchers and in 1997 Medgoen Lukchaopormasak knocked Pacquiao out with a body shot in a flyweight bout.

Attacking the body is a tried-and-true tactic to slow a faster man down. Hatton, though, has become convinced he'll be able to match Pacquiao's speed and negate one of his opponent's perceived advantages right off the bat.

"I strongly believe I'm as fast as Manny," Hatton said.

He won't have to be as quick, or as fast, as Pacquiao if he's simply quick enough to cut off the ring and get into position to get his shots off before Pacquiao skitters away. Leonard raved about Pacquiao's speed, noting he has "incredibly fast hands." De La Hoya, who retired after being stopped by Pacquiao in December, warned that Pacquiao isn't simply a speed demon.

"Manny is very fast and I knew he would be," De La Hoya said. "To me, though, what makes him so good is the combination. He has a combination of speed and power that you usually don't face too often."

Mayweather Sr. insists he's not concerned by Pacquiao's speed and quickness. He once mocked Hatton as a human punching bag when Hatton was preparing to fight his son in 2007, but said once they began to work together last year, he was pleasantly surprised to find that Hatton not only had better skills than he imagined but that he is also a fast learner.

And while not even Mayweather would insist Hatton is faster and quicker, he did say it's not going to be an issue in the fight.

"Ricky is not slow, number one," Mayweather said. "But it's not all about speed. It's about timing. If you know boxing, you know that timing is the most important thing. And Ricky has very good timing."

Hatton's perceived advantage going into the fight is that he is the physically bigger and stronger man who not only can take a punch better than the smaller men Pacquiao has faced, but who will deliver more punishment with his blows.

De La Hoya seemingly had those advantages as well, but his skills were eroded by the time he met Pacquiao and so Pacquiao was never really in danger from his punches.

But Leonard, another fighter who jumped numerous weight classes, said there is a limit to how far a boxer can move up. He said he knew he'd gone as far as he could go when he met Donnie Lalonde in 1988 in a bout for both the super middleweight and light heavyweight titles.

"He hurt me with every punch he threw," said Leonard, who nonetheless won the bout with a ninth-round TKO. "I knew I wasn't going up any more, because at that level, it was an entirely different thing in terms of punching power."

In boxing, though, speed translates to power and a fighter gets hurt the most by the punches he does not see coming.

Pacquiao mesmerized De La Hoya by moving into range, letting go with a lightning-fast combination and then moving back out of range before De La Hoya could get off. It's a tactic he'll try to use frequently on Saturday.

"We can talk about who is better here and who is better there, but when it comes down to it, what matters is the complete package and I think I have the better fighter," Pacquiao trainer Freddie Roach said. "I have a lot of respect for Ricky, but Manny has it all. You've heard all this talk about us as trainers and Mayweather hasn't shut his mouth, but I'm not fighting and Floyd's not fighting. At the end of the day, it's Manny and Ricky who are doing the fighting and Manny right now has more skills than anyone out there."
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"This is a build-up. That's all it is, man, to me. Everybody wants their fighter to win. But with me it's talking. Even if you look back with [Muhammad] Ali when he was doing his thing, everything is a build-up, man. Some guys get in each other's faces and never get out of each other's. But this is something with me. I'm having fun with this. I mean, I'm looking to win the fight and I'm sincere about winning the fight but as far as me, the animosity and the bad talk, I don't have nothing against Freddie right now. When this fight's over, me and Freddie can still shake hands and hug and you know. I don't have nothing against Freddie. I really think Freddie's a nice guy, but right now, this is warfare and I'm looking forward to my man winning, and I'm gonna do whatever it takes for him to win."
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Dudes at philboxing.com (manny nut-hugger central) are ready to crucify Floyd for all the smack he' talked
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[h1]Hatton camp in turmoil heading into fight[/h1]
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LAS VEGAS - Two days before Manny Pacquiao and Ricky Hatton are to meet in the year's biggest boxing match, a representative of Pacquiao trainer Freddie Roach had a conversation with Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer about the possibility of Roach training Hatton in Hatton's next fight.

Roach's agent, Nick Khan, had heard of rumors of discontent between Hatton and his trainer, Floyd Mayweather Sr. In a telephone conversation with Schaefer, Khan suggested that Roach would be interested in training Hatton.

"Richard and I were speaking on the phone, though I'm not sure who called who, and I told him how much respect Freddie has for Ricky," said Khan, who is Pacquiao's former co-manager. "I suggested that after Manny defeats Ricky on Saturday, which is Freddie's priority, that we sit down and discuss the possibility of Freddie getting together and working with Ricky."

A source close to Roach said Schaefer had indicated that Hatton was miserable with Mayweather and was unhappy that Mayweather had arrived late for several workouts.

Schaefer adamantly denied telling anyone he knew of problems between Hatton and Mayweather and said Thursday he was surprised to hear of it from a reporter.

He did say that when he was speaking with Khan that Khan told him Roach was interested in training not only Hatton but also Victor Ortiz, another Golden Boy fighter.

Mayweather didn't deny that there had been friction between he and Hatton, but said it was nothing out of the ordinary and wasn't anything that would affect his working relationship with Hatton or the fight Saturday.

Mayweather grinned and said, "you could be on the right track," when asked if he had problems with Hatton co-trainer Lee Beard, but was more blunt in discussing problems between Hatton and himself. He said he didn't want to identify them in the media, but he didn't deny they had issues.

"I addressed the situation and the problems I had with him," Mayweather said Thursday. "I addressed things with him. I let him know I don't play that, don't do that. He knows now. I won't disrespect him. If I don't want someone else disrespecting me in no kind of a way, I'm not going to disrespect anybody else in no kind of a way. We have a very clear understanding between each other. I make sure I have a clear understanding with everybody I train because nobody is going to be jerking me around and I take no mess off nobody."

Hatton was not available to the media Thursday and couldn't be reached for comment. But he has consistently indicated that he's happy with Mayweather, whom he hired last summer after breaking with longtime trainer Billy Graham.

Schaefer said Roach "wants to train a lot of fighters," and said he maintained a good relationship with Roach, a three-time Trainer of the Year. However, Schaefer said he didn't have the same kind of close relationship with Hatton that he does with Oscar De La Hoya, Bernard Hopkins and Shane Mosley and insisted that he never recommended trainers to them without being asked.

He said he had recommended Naazim Richardson at different times to both De La Hoya and Mosley. Mosley went with his suggestion and used Richardson in a Jan. 24 bout against Antonio Margarito, but De La Hoya instead hired Roach.

Roach said he'd heard rumblings of the discontent between Mayweather and Hatton and said he had heard Hatton became irate when Mayweather was late for numerous training sessions.

Roach, though, did not address Khan's conversation with Schaefer. Roach rarely pays attention to business dealings and instead relies upon Khan and his longtime friend, Billy Keane. Keane manages many of the fighters that Roach trains, though Keane does not manage Pacquiao.
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the fight's on Saturday and I still haven't gotten my shirt from 80s purple

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[h2]Pacquiao KOs Hatton in 'Fight Night' sim[/h2] [h3]A Round 11 Pacquiao right hook proves lethal in "Fight Night Round 4" simulation.[/h3]

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According to EA's official "Fight Night Round 4" simulation, Manny Pacquiao will defeat Ricky Hatton with an 11th round knockout when the twosquare off in the ring May 2.

[h4]"FIGHT NIGHT ROUND 4"[/h4]
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As for what led to the knockout, EA Sports breaks it down: "An aggressive attempt by Hatton to limit Pacquiao's movement early on was unsuccessful.Pacquiao used his speed and control of the ring to take advantage of Hatton's aggression, picking his punches and keeping out of range. The tide turned inHatton's favor in Round 4 when he found some success trapping Pacquiao in the corner. With little room to work with, Pacquiao was forced to trade blows onHatton's terms. This relentless exchange proved to be too much for Pacquiao who went down to a powerful left hook at the end of Round 6.

"The later rounds saw the revival of the quick moving Pacquiao, who outpaced and out boxed Hatton yet again. Lightning fast left jabs wreaked havoc onHatton through Rounds 7, 8 and 9 before a commanding right hand brought him to the mat in Round 10. Badly hurt and looking sluggish, Hatton was unable to beatthe count after falling to another deadly right hook from Pacquiao in Round 11."
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Floyd Sr is the best thing to happen to hatton, with that other bum his career would be over

over then manny has Roach done anything good with his other guys?
 
THE WINNING TICKET!
Manny Pacquiao Meets Former President Bill Clinton

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Fri, 01 May 2009

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4/29/09,Las Vegas,Nevada --- Manny Pacquiao (r), boxing's No. 1 attraction and pound for pound kingpin, met with former President Bill Clinton last nightat the Four Seasons Hotel at Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in Las Vegas. President Clinton wanted to personally wish Pacman good luck before he challengesjunior welterweight champion Ricky Hatton. Pacquiao vs. Hatton headlines The Battle of East and West, Saturday, May 2 at the soldout MGM Grand Garden Arena.The world championship extravaganza will be produced and distributed live by HBO Pay-Per-View, beginning at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT.
 
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[h2]Pacquiao KOs Hatton in 'Fight Night' sim[/h2] [h3]A Round 11 Pacquiao right hook proves lethal in "Fight Night Round 4" simulation.[/h3]

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According to EA's official "Fight Night Round 4" simulation, Manny Pacquiao will defeat Ricky Hatton with an 11th round knockout when the two square off in the ring May 2.

[h4]"FIGHT NIGHT ROUND 4"[/h4]
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[th=""] PACQUIAO/HATTON SCREENSHOT GALLERY [/th]

As for what led to the knockout, EA Sports breaks it down: "An aggressive attempt by Hatton to limit Pacquiao's movement early on was unsuccessful. Pacquiao used his speed and control of the ring to take advantage of Hatton's aggression, picking his punches and keeping out of range. The tide turned in Hatton's favor in Round 4 when he found some success trapping Pacquiao in the corner. With little room to work with, Pacquiao was forced to trade blows on Hatton's terms. This relentless exchange proved to be too much for Pacquiao who went down to a powerful left hook at the end of Round 6.

"The later rounds saw the revival of the quick moving Pacquiao, who outpaced and out boxed Hatton yet again. Lightning fast left jabs wreaked havoc on Hatton through Rounds 7, 8 and 9 before a commanding right hand brought him to the mat in Round 10. Badly hurt and looking sluggish, Hatton was unable to beat the count after falling to another deadly right hook from Pacquiao in Round 11."
[h4]ROUND-BY-ROUND SCORING[/h4]
Ricky Hatton9991010109998--92
Manny Pacquiao10101099810101010--96
[th=""][/th] [th=""]1[/th] [th=""]2[/th] [th=""]3[/th] [th=""]4[/th] [th=""]5[/th] [th=""]6[/th] [th=""]7[/th] [th=""]8[/th] [th=""]9[/th] [th=""]10[/th] [th=""]11[/th] [th=""]Total[/th]
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Dako you have no idea how I was cracking up when I read this
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I was sitting here like this is real serious business these guys are commentating like a real fight
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Then I showed my boss (a Filipino) and he lost his mind talking about he has to go to church and pray because this is a jinx on Pacquaio.
 
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no I was reading it before I saw it in here. He left early so I assume he must have went to church
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wait so is the pacquiao/hatton fight actually starting at 9ET? or is 9ET when they have some preliminary fights first. i remember when pacman used to fightmorales and marquez and the fight wouldnt be til like 10 or 11ET. the reason im asking is cause the bulls/celtics game is at 8ET! i don't know what todooo! saturday night will be one epic night!
 
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