Mayweather-Hatton: Some Real History

[magatte]

Fantastic Article. It is a fascinating fight, and who knows, maybe Floyd does have a hidden gear that he can turn on when really in trouble. (No need to look further than Calzaghe against Kessler right about round 6)

[uclanemesis]

Ronnie Nathanielzs could learn a lot from reading articles like this one.

[JakeNDaBox]

Great, great job on this one, Cliff. And not just the "Great job as usual" type of great. This is, at the very least, BWAA-award worthy.

[commandant]

great article, i usually dont read all of it, but man this one had me gripped from the beginning. Great stuff!!

[squealpiggy]

Very good article.

[wengz2002]

Great Opinion~~~

But I don't like Mayweather style of Running & I don't like Hatton's Holding Tactics...

It's All about Hype!!!
Expect plenty of Running & Holding from both guys~


I want Ricky Hatton to Win this fight because I hate Mayweather, but mind tells me that Mayweather is too Slick for Hatton...

The Referee will play a major role to dictate the Style of this fight!!!

[Horus]

By Cliff Rold - Since the mid-1880s, when Middleweight Jack Dempsey and Heavyweight John L. Sullivan ushered in the modern era of boxing as its first true World champions, just shy of 500 fighters across thousands of fights have laid claim to true, lineal World Championships. This Saturday night two of those men, reigning champions from different divisions, face off, neither having ever suffered the proverbial ‘agony of defeat.’ In all of the 130+ years that have come before this, it’s a moment almost unlike any other before it; a moment gone nearly unnoticed leaving far too many fans uninformed of some of the great things underlying this big event.

I’ll get back to that.

For now, focus on a set of facts about three paragraphs from now that I can almost guarantee you haven’t read about.

World Junior Welterweight (140 lb.) champion Ricky Hatton (43-0, 31 KO) of Manchester, England is in a position he’s known only once before in his career. This Saturday night, under the bright lights and heavy pressure of a Las Vegas megafight, Hatton attempts to unseat reigning Welterweight (147 lb.) champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. (38-0, 24 KO) of Grand Rapids, Michigan and Hatton does so as an underdog.