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4,000 Hatton fans USA bound!
By Craig Watt
Unbeaten Ricky "The Hitman" Hatton (40-0, 30 KO's) will perhaps feel on home territory when he challenges WBA Welterweight champion Luis Collazo (26-1) in Boston on Saturday. This is because an estimated 4,000 UK fans are actually making the trip to the USA to see the fight at the TD Banknorth Gardens Arena in Boston. Ricky is noted for his popularity in the UK and regularly packed in 22,000 fans to the MEN Arena in Manchester during the last three years. There are a number of organised trips from Manchester and already flights and hotels are becoming packed with his travelling supporters. It may be the although the fight is seen as Hatton's major debut in the USA the atmosphere may well seem like a home fight for the undefeated former IBF and WBA Jr-welterweight champion. The fight is televised in the UK on Sky Box Office on a pay per view basis with a "double header" in the UK with IBF Light-Heavyweight Champion Clinton Woods taking on Aussie Jason Delisle in Sheffield as the show opener before linking to the States for Ricky's attempt to rest the WBA 147 pound title from Collazo.
4,000 Hatton fans USA bound!
By Craig Watt
Unbeaten Ricky "The Hitman" Hatton (40-0, 30 KO's) will perhaps feel on home territory when he challenges WBA Welterweight champion Luis Collazo (26-1) in Boston on Saturday. This is because an estimated 4,000 UK fans are actually making the trip to the USA to see the fight at the TD Banknorth Gardens Arena in Boston. Ricky is noted for his popularity in the UK and regularly packed in 22,000 fans to the MEN Arena in Manchester during the last three years. There are a number of organised trips from Manchester and already flights and hotels are becoming packed with his travelling supporters. It may be the although the fight is seen as Hatton's major debut in the USA the atmosphere may well seem like a home fight for the undefeated former IBF and WBA Jr-welterweight champion. The fight is televised in the UK on Sky Box Office on a pay per view basis with a "double header" in the UK with IBF Light-Heavyweight Champion Clinton Woods taking on Aussie Jason Delisle in Sheffield as the show opener before linking to the States for Ricky's attempt to rest the WBA 147 pound title from Collazo.
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