RICKY HATTON finally takes on pound-for-pound king Floyd Mayweather next weekend for the WBC world welterweight crown — and the Hitman is ready for the fight of his life. Here, he tells us why — and how — he's going to become the greatest boxer on the planet in Las Vegas..
A I ‘M going to knock out Floyd May-weather. The nearer the fight gets the more confident I become of it. He's been coasting along in the comfort zone; not prepared to go through the pain barrier.
There is no venom in his punches and, anyway, I shall be oblivious to pain. The way I am feeling I will be going for the knockout. I believe I can. No, f*** it, I think I will!
Can he keep his eye-catching combinations up for 12 rounds and is his defence good enough to withstand the heat as I thread punches into the smallest target areas?
The more I consider it the more I tell myself: NO! I've been plotting and tracking down Floyd like a hunter from a few years back.
Now it's like I have the prey cornered.
Trainer Billy Graham and I have long had it in our heads, been convinced, that I had the perfect tools to take him on — despite all Floyd's star quality.
I've never seen him box in the flesh but we have constantly studied videos to break down his style.
But we realised we had to go to the States to draw him out of his den
Read on
http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/0212_ricky_hatton.shtml
A I ‘M going to knock out Floyd May-weather. The nearer the fight gets the more confident I become of it. He's been coasting along in the comfort zone; not prepared to go through the pain barrier.
There is no venom in his punches and, anyway, I shall be oblivious to pain. The way I am feeling I will be going for the knockout. I believe I can. No, f*** it, I think I will!
Can he keep his eye-catching combinations up for 12 rounds and is his defence good enough to withstand the heat as I thread punches into the smallest target areas?
The more I consider it the more I tell myself: NO! I've been plotting and tracking down Floyd like a hunter from a few years back.
Now it's like I have the prey cornered.
Trainer Billy Graham and I have long had it in our heads, been convinced, that I had the perfect tools to take him on — despite all Floyd's star quality.
I've never seen him box in the flesh but we have constantly studied videos to break down his style.
But we realised we had to go to the States to draw him out of his den
Read on
http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/0212_ricky_hatton.shtml
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