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In Las Vegas, if you speak sans a British accent you are on foreign turf this weekend. The bloaks from the U.K. have invaded Sin City and simply overwhelmed today's weigh-in at the MGM Grand Garden Arena. A gathering of over 7,000 fans sounded like 20,000 and all British. They booed Manny Pacquiao and broke into Ricky Hatton's theme, "A Hatton Wonderland".

There is nothing like this Hatton crowd anywhere in the U.S. A few college football fanbases, like the 95,000 who showed for the Ohio State spring game, may be able to compete. But that's about it. The guess here is that 70-80 percent of the MGM's 14,000 seat arena will be Brits. Plus the Mirage and Mandalay Bay are combining for another 25,000 closed-circuit seats. Guess who will be filling most of those seats?

Hatton (45-1, 32 KOs) weighed in at the limit of 140 while Pacquiao (48-3-2, 26 KOs) was under at 138.

Listen here after the big fight on Saturday night. Starting at 1 a.m. ET, Cofield will host the ESPNRadio1100/Yahoo! Sports postfight show from the media center at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

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  1. A Yahoo! User
    1. Posted by A Yahoo! User Sat May 02, 2009 12:49 am EDT

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    i couldn't agree more!
  2. colin c
    2. Posted by colin c Sat May 02, 2009 12:57 am EDT

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    Want to know why boxing is dying??
    SOMEONE BUY THESE TWO A FRIGGIN IMAGE CONSULTANT.
    nevermind this sport is corrupt and is so technical it now bites........... fight not to lose, never show heart................ you have to be 80 and in a fedora, or a ghetto idiot, to like boxing anymore
  3. wantto be like mike
    3. Posted by wantto be like mike Sat May 02, 2009 1:21 am EDT

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    I am a filipino from the philippines and i am not proud of pacquiao
    i know his character and it's not good
    i wish he got beaten up so bad by hatton
    just like what lewis did to tyson
    i know it's very hard to defeat him
    but i hope hatton wins.
  4. idiotsonny
    4. Posted by idiotsonny Sat May 02, 2009 2:16 am EDT

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    you're not filipino sonny
    what do u know about pac-man?
    he's a human and probably you're not...
    he comit mistakes and maybe you don't
  5. Arlene C
    5. Posted by Arlene C Sat May 02, 2009 4:01 am EDT

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    Sonny ur 1 s2pid foo.
  6. wantto be like mike
    6. Posted by wantto be like mike Sat May 02, 2009 5:04 am EDT

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    # 7 and # 8 - have you been to the philippines??
    I don't think so .
  7. proud pinoy
    7. Posted by proud pinoy Sat May 02, 2009 12:21 pm EDT

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    i pity u sonny...get the hell out of the philippines! ur a shame to your motherland! im not a boxing fan...but during this time when a fellow countrymen will bring PRIDE to my country... they have my support.....PROUD TO BE PINOY!
  8. miguela COTTO
    8. Posted by miguela COTTO Sat May 02, 2009 12:57 pm EDT

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    sonny ur one of those bull [profane] filipino who bets against pacquiao.....its better to close your mouth because no one believes you.....filipino people knows manny for his generousity...NAIINGGIT KA LANG DAHIL IKAW WALANG GINAWA PARA SA BANSA MO......ARE YOU A GIFTED CHILD? just asking....
  9. miguela COTTO
    9. Posted by miguela COTTO Sat May 02, 2009 1:06 pm EDT

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    kung filipino ka sonny mag reply ka nang tagalog......you cannot fool a filipino people,maybe you are one of those people who lost a thousand of $ because of manny........walanghiya ka sonny!!!!! manny is a national hero of filipino people...siguro retarded ka? nagtatanong lng....
  10. wantto be like mike
    10. Posted by wantto be like mike Sun May 03, 2009 2:21 am EDT

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    bakit kayo galit na galit ,, mga body guard siguro kayo ,,
    national hero,, ????
    ang alam kong nagiging hero ,, ipinagtatanggol tayo sa masasamang tao
    hindi naman masasamang tao ang kalaban ni pakito..
    Nabubulagan kayo at idol niyo siya,
    Reporter ang asawa ko,, kaya alam namin ang character niya
    Siguro idol din niyo yung naging boyfriend ni Riyanna
    o naniniwala na kayo na pinoy ako??
    and idolo ko lang at hero ko si Fernando Poe, wala ng iba

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