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Don King – a man who, if he cannot get on camera, will still find a way to get on television – was prattling loudly during the Luis Collazo-Ricky Hatton welterweight title fight, reviving the centuries-old ghosts of America’s Revolutionary War.
King was telling anyone within an enormous listening distance that Americans – unlike Kostya Tszyu in his fight last year against Hatton – will not quit. The amplification of his usual nationalism into a hopeful repelling of Hatton’s British Invasion resulted, of course, from his duties as Collazo’s promoter. Yet what made it all the more amusing was that, had Hatton been one of King’s men, the wiry-haired one could have shown up with the Union Jack in hand, spoken of tea times and the superiority of Clive Anderson over Drew Carey in their respective versions of “Whose Line is it Anyway?” and it would have seemed just as par for the course.
While King recalled 1776, though, Collazo and Hatton were battling in the latest skirmish in the War of 147, a clash that is going on for reasons of bigger money and body mass. In this conflict, it is not redcoats coming, but instead junior welterweights invading. [details]
King was telling anyone within an enormous listening distance that Americans – unlike Kostya Tszyu in his fight last year against Hatton – will not quit. The amplification of his usual nationalism into a hopeful repelling of Hatton’s British Invasion resulted, of course, from his duties as Collazo’s promoter. Yet what made it all the more amusing was that, had Hatton been one of King’s men, the wiry-haired one could have shown up with the Union Jack in hand, spoken of tea times and the superiority of Clive Anderson over Drew Carey in their respective versions of “Whose Line is it Anyway?” and it would have seemed just as par for the course.
While King recalled 1776, though, Collazo and Hatton were battling in the latest skirmish in the War of 147, a clash that is going on for reasons of bigger money and body mass. In this conflict, it is not redcoats coming, but instead junior welterweights invading. [details]