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He is short and stocky, with a scarcity of style, and he has a propensity to bleed, often donning a crimson mask for the duration of his bouts, once going eleven rounds, two minutes and forty-five seconds with a gushing gash over his left eye. He owns scar tissue like Imelda Marcos owned shoes.
He has, in acquiring his forty wins and thirty knockouts, been assisted by a tendency to foul and get away with it, an ability to fight his fight, with his referees, in his hometown.
Nevertheless, with this weekend’s ninth round knockout of Carlos Maussa, he – Ricky Hatton – is the unified IBF and WBA junior welterweight champion, and, sanctioning bodies aside, the division’s true top dog.
After alighting as a blip on the radar years ago, Hatton has since crashed the 140-lb. scene with a hard-hitting, rough-and-tumble attitude, unleashing round after round of power punches, demonstrating that he is a combustible ball of unceasing energy, and similarly a warrior of crowd-pleasing synergy, a whole greater than the sum of his parts. [details]
He has, in acquiring his forty wins and thirty knockouts, been assisted by a tendency to foul and get away with it, an ability to fight his fight, with his referees, in his hometown.
Nevertheless, with this weekend’s ninth round knockout of Carlos Maussa, he – Ricky Hatton – is the unified IBF and WBA junior welterweight champion, and, sanctioning bodies aside, the division’s true top dog.
After alighting as a blip on the radar years ago, Hatton has since crashed the 140-lb. scene with a hard-hitting, rough-and-tumble attitude, unleashing round after round of power punches, demonstrating that he is a combustible ball of unceasing energy, and similarly a warrior of crowd-pleasing synergy, a whole greater than the sum of his parts. [details]
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