Wish I were here for the Mayweather-Hatton buildup.

I wasnt here for that but by far the best build up I've been around for was Cotto-Margarito 1, this place was at its prime around that fight.

unbelievable!

What's funny is that it seems like so many people from 2005-2007 were saying "Floyd doesn't want to fight Hatton, he's avoiding Hatton", when in fact it was Hatton and his team saying they didn't want the fight in 2005. I had no problem with that, it helped Hatton get more wins on his resume like Maussa, Urango, and Collazo, and helped him get more US exposure during 2006. And prior to the fight, people seemed like they thought Hatton was going to rough Floyd up and beat him down. Floyd TKO'd him, and now it was Floyd cherry picking a small blown up fighter, who sucked. Nevermind the fact that Hatton had won a title at 147 and was the #8 P4P fighter in the world at the time. The 24/7 was amazing, though you probably watched that still. It was the best 24/7 of all-time, will never be out done.

its as good as water touching your lips after doing 5 games in a row of streetball.

Oh yeah and the 24/7 for it was awesome, with it being new and all of that and still being fresh and them having a rivalry going on. And noobs being impressed by Hattons work on that giant bodybag thing that his trainer used talking **** about how he would have better stamina than mayweather in the ring ect then getting pwned badly on fight night. Hopkins-Calzaghe had me screaming at the TV the first round when cal***gy got dropped, after that though it was lame. I still think if hopkins opened up a bit more he would have won. And he showed in the pavlik fight following that he still had good stamina at the time.

same as any other build up where they said Hatton would kick floyds ass and take his 0.then after the fight Floyd is a punk for picking on a smaller guy who wasnt that good to begin with...you know the usual Haha I feel that

It was a **** show. Kind of worse then this may vs cotto. Don't expect to be able to get on this site after the fight cause it will probably crash, it did for that fight.

It was massive and it had me worried that the fight couldnt possibly live up to the hype but with the KO win it did. I wish the ref would have chilled out a bit though and let them work more. The DLH-Mayweather fight was sort of a let down in that they were both so defensive minded. DLH-Hopkins was a let down too, huge hype and then that ending was weird and seemed fake. Mayweather-Pac has already passed peak interest and I wondered too if it could have possibly lived up to the hype if it was a boring UD win with mayweather boxing and moving and Pac unable to cut off the ring, but with mayweather fighting more aggressive now it could have lived up to it.

same as any other build up where they said Hatton would kick floyds ass and take his 0.then after the fight Floyd is a punk for picking on a smaller guy who wasnt that good to begin with...you know the usual

maybe the best weigh-in of all time

I wasn't either. I didn't join here till 2011 and didn't start reading posts or articles on here till 2009-2010. The hype for that fight, even without a boxing forum, was crazy.