After the fight is said and done, it will become how obiviously silly these experts picks were...I've never heard of a lopsided 50/50 fight...
Hatton will press and dominate Pac...
All this nonsense of so and so scaring so and so out of a division, or out of a fight, or out of town or something.
well how about this!
It seems like MIGUEL COTTO has scared MAYWEATHER out of THE ENTIRE SPORT OF BOXING!!!! LOL!!!!
What im REALLY looking forward to is seeing his fans try to back his decision to basically desert boxing for MMA.
He wants to PROMOTE MMA, and he wants to fight in MMA, in other words, desert teh sport thats given him nearly 50 million dollars this year.
Its a money thing Kball...I'm sure you understand that..
Exactly.
Fake Floyd thinks he's cool.
Yet all he does is make himself a punk.
It's good to see that the American masses sees Fake Floyd as a waste of time and is merely overhyped.
A lot of people watched the DLH fight and made the conclusion that if a guy like Fake FLoyd ran all night from a shot DLH who gassed out in the mid rounds then who the fuck is this Fake Floyd.
Running from a shot opponent and doing nothing IS NOT FUCKING SKILL.
THAT'S JUST PLAIN RUNNING.
It called boxing playa..Pretty Boy has the best defense in the sport and 90% of posters hate to admit it..
guys, read the article.
They are talking about the SINGLE-YEAR PPV record, not the SINGLE-FIGHT PPV record.
If The fight does 1.5 million PPV buys, Mayweather does 4 MILLION PPV BUYS for the year, which would be the record
THANK YOU K-BALL...THANK YOU
Single-Year PPV sales is a pretty straight forward record, and no DLH wont be able to break 4 Mill in a year...
unless he gets the Mayweather rematch AND the Pacquiao fight somehow.
Even if DLH gets Pretty Boy again it wont happen..The numbers will be off because of the way the first fight went down..
What happened who won?
i can't find a single thread about this fight
Both fighters looked like shit...That shit should have been a draw..Manfredo acting scared and Lacy looked like he was punching a heavybag...Both fighters are trash...
No problem, I don't have anything against Skelton, but I really hope Chagaev wins this fight, if he was to lose, the HW division would be much worse.
Yep...but I can truly see that happening..
I'll give you a 1k bet...just for the hell of it...
This is not a hate thread, but all Floyd fans going on about Hatton hitting and holding and complaining saying this is illegal is only what Floyd Mayweather did in the first 4-5 rounds.
Mayweather deserved the victory and was superb but lets be honest in the first few rounds it was Floyd who grabbed hold of Ricky as soon as he got close and then held with one hand and hit with the other and also elbowed and used the forearm to the face. I'm not complaining about this and Ricky never either and you do what you have to.
But Floyd fans don't criticise Hatton for it when Floyd does it himself but so much better.
No he didn't do it for the duration of the fight but did in the first few rounds before wearing Hatton down and putting on a defensive and offensive masterclass.
The words of the late great Barry White, "Playing your game baby..."...
That grated on some die-hard New York boxing fans. People would show up just hoping that Malignaggi would lose and have to fill his nonstop mouth with humble pie. It didn't happen … until he fought Miguel Cotto at Madison Square Garden on June 10, 2006.
Cotto came in the favorite and was establishing himself as an icon during the annual Puerto Rican Pride Week festivities in New York. Malignaggi was an underdog in his hometown in the biggest fight of his career. He gave away two concessions that he believes may have cost him the fight: He allowed Cotto, who was having trouble making the 140-pound limit, to weigh in early the day before the fight, and he gave in to Cotto's request for a smaller ring.
The early weigh-in allowed Cotto to bulk up and enter the ring weighing as much as a middleweight. The smaller ring made it hard for Malignaggi to use his foot speed to outbox Cotto.
"Right before the fight started, we were standing across from each other … it looked like I could reach out and touch him. That's how small the ring was," Malignaggi said. "Right then in that moment, I changed my strategy."
Cotto opened a deep gash over Malignaggi's eye under a minute into the fight. And then he dropped Malignaggi in the second round. From that point on, in his head, Malignaggi thought he was going to have to brawl in order to win the fight.
His corner, anchored by trainer Billy Giles, didn't tell Malignaggi to get back to his original strategy.
"The game plan was to frustrate him early with speed and by using my legs and then pot shot him in the later rounds," Malignaggi said. "When I heard the scores and how close it was, I was devastated. I took a lot of physical damage for nothing. It's a shame. I should have never changed the game plan.
It will forever haunt me that I lost the Cotto fight that closely -- that I fought the wrong fight.
-- Paulie Malignaggi, on his decision to brawl when he believes he should have boxed
"It will forever haunt me that I lost the Cotto fight that closely -- that I fought the wrong fight."
Renowned trainer Emmanuel Steward isn't so sure Malignaggi fought the wrong fight -- or if taking his lumps was such a bad thing.
"I know he showed a lot of heart against Cotto, but that was a situation where he had to," Steward said. "He was fighting in front of that big crowd in his hometown and the fans were into it."
Steward believes a more aggressive Malignaggi -- one who sits and commits more to his punches -- would make for a better fighter.
"He really hasn't shown any commitment to getting anybody out of there," he said. "His punching power is not what it should be. He doesn't have any power because you have to stay in there and commit."
As a result of the Cotto fight, Malignaggi had to have surgery to repair a fractured eye socket and cheekbone. He also changed trainers, opting to go with Buddy McGirt. The Ngoudjo fight will be their third bout together.
"The thing I like about Paulie is he has a never say die attitude," McGirt said. "If he gets something wrong, he's going to stay in the gym until he makes sure he's got it right."
And an odd thing happened with the loss to Cotto. Malignaggi's stature as a fighter rose.
"A lot of people who hated him going into that fight became fans after," DiBella said. "It made him fans with the Latino fight fans. When he was walking out of the ring looking like Frankenstein's monster, the guys who were booing him before the fight were cheering him.
"He proved if you're going to talk a lot of smack, you'd better lay everything on the line to back it up. And the thing is I don't think he's lost a round since the Cotto fight. That's 22 straight rounds. He's not your average fighter."
Tim Smith is the boxing columnist for the New York Daily News.
lol zab is faster then floyd.. so when hatton jumps at him with that left hook , instead of hitting haton with a counter left hook like mayweather did zab would hit him with a left uppercut.. KO
Zab can't handle body shots...nuff said...Big fight = Big Lost for Zab...This coming from a Zab fan...
Zab aint Mayweather & Mayweather aint Zab...
Hatton would lose 100 straight fights to Mayweather and beat Zab 200 straight..
wat the hell u talkin bout.... cottoo hits harder then hatton and he could stay in there till the later rounds with cotto.. so i bet he could last 8 rounds againts hatton.. just enough time to ko him
He would gas by the 4th round and get KO'd by the 8th. Laters rounds or not he would get ko'd. Zab has all the tools to be a great one..But remember what would bust a pipe....
IT would be whack as hell...Cotto has no social skills ...and he just doesn't seem interesting at all...even when people ask him , who he would like to fight ... he doesn't say nothing ... "Talk to BOB" ... he is not going to make any money man...this dude is boring...
24/7 with cotto involved ....would = BORING ...
floyd aint going to trade with Cotto ... he would box him and pop shot him all night ...
Cotto vs mosley was a draw ... (you have your opinion and I have mine) ...
but look at it like this ....I think Cotto will get knocked out by delahoya, margarito, or decisioned by williams ...so cotto will not even be someone we will mention again ...
I think shane will end up fighting mayweather ...
It would be like Apollo Creed and Ivan (the Russian off Rocky)....
or like Rocky and Clobber Lane...
Do you thin Hatton could beat decent Welterweights but just struggle with the elite 5 or do you think even Judah can beat him at 147?
Zab is my boy but Hatton would CRUSH him...Zab can't handle body shots..He would KO Zab between round 5 & 10.
HAHAHAHAHA judah would KO hatton faster then mayweather did
I doubt it...Hatton is a beast....He just so happen to fight the baddest boxer on the planet..
Hopkins was arguing with Calzaghe. The first thing that came to mind was Calzaghe's skin colour.
I dont give a fuck about this whole "Hopkins was just trying to get under his skin" thats fucking bullshit and you're a bitch if you still support Hopkins after that comment.
I often say "Shut yo black a$$ up" Shut yo fat a$$ up"...Technically those are racist comments but I'm far from a racist..
Money Mayweather in one BORING ass decision...They be some BOXING fools....Mayweather moves enought to get around Winkys guard....Winky would definitely press his butt tho..
I think Hopkins is clearly a racist, his racist comment towards Calzaghe was inappropriate and uncalled for. If Calzaghe made a racist comment like that about Hopkins he would instantly be villafied by the media and Al Sharpton would show up at Calzaghe's doorstep demanding a public apology.
Just because you make a racist comment doesn't mean you're racist at all..People make racist comments on a daily basis and aren't even aware of it..
Trinidad is fightint Jones at 170, so a fight with Lacy after the Jones fight is not off the mark. Still, I think Trinidad should have chosen this type of opponent before a Jones, who although semi-shot, is still talented and is a bigger fighter.
Tito is a big name fighter...Bottomline, RJJ is still a big name...Lacy really does nothing for him..