Fri May 01, 2009 8:45 pm EDT
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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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
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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.
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what do u know about pac-man?
he's a human and probably you're not...
he comit mistakes and maybe you don't
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I don't think so .
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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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