Hatton Unleashes His Dogs of War; Rogan vs. Sexton on May 15th – News
March 31st, 2009
By Jim Dower: Manny Pacquiao (48-3-2, 36 KOs) may have thought that he impressed a lot of boxing fans with his 8th round stoppage over Oscar De La Hoya in December 2008, but he’s not quite impressed Ricky Hatton (45-1, 32 KOs), who sees Pacquiao’s win as nothing but a fluke due to De La Hoya’s weight depleted condition that he entered the fight in.
“I don’t think it was hard to beat Oscar that night,” Hatton says. Pacquiao may not like it but his win over De La Hoya probably isn’t as important as he may thing because of what Hatton correctly points out about the physical state that De La Hoya was in on that night.
Hatton thinks that Pacquiao’s so-called speed advantage won’t be a factor in this fight, because Hatton has gotten much quicker since he started training with Floyd Mayweather Sr. recently. Ultimately, Hatton says that his size will be a major factor in him beating Pacquiao on May 2nd in Las Vegas, Nevada.
However, if there’s one concern coming into this fight is that Hatton has started training much earlier for this bout than he typically does for his other bouts and is already near 150 already. Hatton might be making the same mistake that De La Hoya did in his fight with Pacquiao by training much too early than what is necessary for the fight.
Hatton could end up leaving his fight behind in the gym if he trains too hard or he could end up weight depleted much in the same way that Oscar was in his fight with Manny.
Martin Rogan vs. Sam Sexton on May 15th
Commonwealth (British Empire) heavyweight champion Martin Rogan (12-0, 6 KOs) will defend his title on May 15th against challenger Sam Sexton (11-1, 4 KOs) at the Odyssey Arena, in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Rogan, 37, is coming off arguably his biggest win of his five year pro career with a 11th round stoppage win over Matt Skelton to capture the Commonwealth heavyweight crown on February 28th.
The fight went back and forth with Rogan getting the better of Skelton in the early rounds with his heavy pressure, but then Skelton coming back to take the middle rounds. And just when it seemed as if Skelton was on the verge of taking control of the fight and getting the win, Rogan came to life and hurt Skelton with a big right hand in the 11th.
Rogan then staggered Skelton with a left hand. Skelton backed to the ropes where Rogan teed off on him with a blizzard of shots knocking Skelton to the canvas. After a badly hurt Skelton got to his feet, Rogan jumped all over him and hit him with a series of massive right and left hands to the end not letting up until referee John Keane stopped the bout at 1:21 of the 11th round.
In facing Sexton, Rogan meets up with a fighter who has also won the Prizefighter tournament, like Rogan, and who is 13 years younger than Rogan. Sexton may not have the power or the pressure offense that Rogan has, but he’s very impressive with putting his punches together. His only loss of his career is a 6th round stoppage to Derek Chisora in June 2008.
Since defeating Skelton, Rogan has become a wanted man in the heavyweight division with many top heavyweights interested in fighting him. If Rogan, ranked number #11 in the WBO, can keep on winning he might find himself in a world title shot in a year or two against someone like Wladimir Klitschko. Before that, Rogan has a lot of other options on the local scene with English heavyweights.
Tags: Hatton vs. Pacquiao, Hatton-Pacquiao, Rogan-Sexton, UK Boxing ,Manny Pacquiao, Martin Rogan, Ricky Hatton9 Responses to “Hatton Unleashes His Dogs of War; Rogan vs. Sexton on May 15th – News”
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right on lito, people somehow discredits pacquiao’s victory over ODLH with the depleted weight, when the man himself acknowledge pacquiao’s dominance over him, without making alibis about the weight? and for the sake of argument that the weight did make the difference, why take out the credit from pacquiao? WHO’S FAULT IS IT TO BE THAT WAY? Is it Manny’s fault? and remember this with your dumb ass memory that Manny went up two weight class himself
SO PLEASE STOP MAKING EXCUSES FOR DELA HOYA’S DEFEAT FROM MANNY after all if you use your dumbass memory again, most probably you didn’t give pacquiao a chance BEFORE the fight with ODLH
if the pacman’s win over dela hoya is because of the latter’s depleted weight as hatton alleged then, dela hoya for all purposes should have asked right away for a rematch, knowing fully well the reason why he suffered that kind of humilation. like any other latino figthers, dela hoya has tons of pride. so, it is ironic for him to just accept his loss to the pacman if he can surely avenge his defeat. instead, he was telling the press that pacquiao is a great fighter. he did not offer any alibi including weight depletion as the reason for the loss. to make the story short, hatton and his cohorts are only playing psychological warfare to boast there very low self esteem.
The fight between the fighters actually started the moment they signed for the fight, training is all but part of the fight; if a fighter falters in and screwd his training to make the agreed weight, the other fighter who trained perfectly four the fight could not be blamed if the latter would deliver an ass whooping to the former… hope u got the point u dumbasses!!!
Bang on ukansodoff!! Oli, you for real? Hatton was ill for the lazcano fight and still won-yes WON. As for Mallingagii, he don’t get stopped-the geezer has a head like stone-ask Cotto, he broke half his face and still couldn’t ko him. Ducking? What abot Tszyo-he was banded around as the best-till Hatton beat him now everyone wants to change opinions AGAIN. And what was the Mayweather fight if not dangerous? (stepping up to a weight that he is not big enough for)the guy is a great fighter, unless we want to change our views about him too? As ukansodoff says, no probs if ya wanna back the Pacman, but don’t talk coblers.
I love the people who say boxers didnt win fights as FACT when the FACT is they did, not convincing? Close? Still down on official paper as a win.
And when people say boxers like Hatton has ducked the hard fights its even funnier.
If you wana argue Pacquiaos corner go for it but dont resort to nonsense. Ive read the same crap about Haye going the easy route, fighting bums and all that, its just bitter crap because you aint got a better argument.
Sorry this is a bit off subject but does anyone no when hatton pacman 24/7 starts in england ???
@ oli – Are you serious struggled to beat lazcano???? The scorecards seemed to disagree with you. The talking will be done in the ring on may 2nd. Mallignagii was holding on for dear life most of the fight so that stops that argument. Also cotto couldnt knock mallignaggi out, he hasnt been knocked out. Ricky wasn’t discrediting anything manny has done previously and he has huge respect for pacman. I agree that oscar was not himself in that fight but manny was superb and got the job done with relative ease. Even if manny does beat hatton, it will not be anywhere near as easy.
yes he could also say the say that hatton struggled to beat juan lazcano, recieved a gift decision from the judges against collazo after being clearly beat up ..still couldnt knock mallignaggi out… and had consistantly ducked any potential losses to dangerous fighters at 140 his entire career. pacquiao on the other hand has fought great fighters and dangerous matches his entire career at various weights something hatton has never done
but manny could say the same about hattons win over castillo who was 34 and had got a shady split decision over herman ndjouga before