Hatton Wins Weigh-In Stare Down, Pacquiao Looks Scared
May 2nd, 2009
By Manuel Perez: Well, Ricky Hatton has won the first part of tonight’s battle with Manny Pacquiao by beating him in yesterday’s weigh-in stare down, and causing Pacquiao to look away first. I can’t stress enough the importance of the winning the psychological part of boxing, because that plays a huge factor in the eventual outcome of a fight. Look at any big fight, and nine times out of ten, the ultimate winner of the fight had gained the upper hand mentally before the fight by psyching out his opponent.
Pacquiao couldn’t handle the stare down, started smiling sheepishly and reached out to shake Hatton’s hands, as if surrendering to the more powerful fighter. Hatton was having none of it, and continued to look straight at Pacquiao, eyes not blinking and looking like a stone cold punching machine.
Hatton was not smiling and looked like he wanted to tear Pacquiao’s head off with a punch. Pacquiao, cringing a little, put his hands up by his ribs as if were expect Hatton to lay into his body with a huge punch at any second. I felt sorry for Pacquiao at that moment because he looked like he was literally melting away in front of a large sun.
It was bad, because Pacquiao couldn’t look into Hatton’s eyes and looked really submissive and not at all confident. I’ve seen a gillion weigh-ins before, but never have I seen a fighter get stared down as badly as Hatton did to Pacquiao. It seemed that Pacquiao couldn’t wait to get off the stage, and get away from Hatton as fast as possible.
I wasn’t entirely sure who was going to win tonight’s fight until I saw the weigh-in, and now I’m positively certain that Hatton will be knocking Pacquiao out before long. I’m just wondering how Pacquiao is going to perform? I just don’t like the way he looked out there, like he wanted to find a hole to hide his head or something. Sheesh!
Well, I just hope that Pacquiao makes it interesting for a little while at least and doesn’t stink up the joint by folding too quickly. Hatton is the much stronger fighter, and this will be a huge step up in class for Pacquiao. He really has nothing to compare to what he’ll be facing tonight against Hatton.
You can’t count Pacquiao’s win over Oscar De La Hoya, because Oscar never laid so much of a glove on him, and he was so emaciated and weight drained, even if Oscar could land anything, it wouldn’t have hurt Pacquiao.
In Manny’s other recent fights, he’s beaten David Diaz, Juan Manuel Marquez, and Marco Antonio Barrera, all of them much weaker punchers than Hatton. Marquez is a good puncher, but he’s more of a pumped up featherweight and doesn’t have nearly the same power as the big punchers in the light welterweight division.
Diaz isn’t a big puncher either nor is Barrera. Both of them are more like featherweights in terms of power. That’s what I’m talking about when I say that Pacquiao is going to be getting hit much harder than he has before. I saw his sparring partners and they looked pathetic. Small, weak and nothing like Hatton. Pacquiao is going to get massacred tonight.
Oh, for the need to know, Hatton weighed in at 140, and Manny came in at 138 during the weigh-in.
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yep he sure got massacred, idiot.
Hey Manuel Perez! You should make an article 2
“Why I Hate Manny PAcquiao”, instead of predicting his fights. That will be the most sensible article you might write and you will then recieve a once in a lifetime reward of Death Threats!!!!….. PEACE.
That NOBODY, STUPID boxer is laughing all the way to the bank leaving those poor, biased, misguided
losers behind.
i hope manny fights mosley next. it would be nice
There is a higher state of exiistance in Zen buddhism called the “No” mind. When mind and body act as one. When there is no difference between thought and action. Myamoto Mushashi believed that enlightenment can be reached by strict adhereance to form and practise. Manny Pacquiao is a modern day Myamoto Musashi. Manny already believes he is a nobody due to his faith in GOD and is well underway towards reaching enlightenment and life everlasting. Amen.
manny pacquiao is a nobody
what now manuel?
your guy hatton was demolished like the twin towers of new york? why can’t come out now and make comments? are you still thinking of excuses?
whatever! manny pacquiao is still the most stupid boxer who ever lived, rotfwl
im pretty sure someone will pay a good price to assasinate this stupid boxer
well, at least hatton gets some points for winning the stare-down…
bahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!
(maybe mr.perez got fired off this job, that’s why he’s not posting anymore.)
Scoop: Hatton scored a KO in weigh-in staring down bout over Manny.
ManuelPerez unmercilessly floored Paquiao fans who’re rolling, roaring in laughters for his
amateurish writing.
again mr. perez was acting like a mind reader and not a writer.
WTF is w/ the author of this article ? I’m a filipino and i know why pacquiao was acting like that, inside of manny, he is laughing and taking hatton as a joke! LOL i hope the author of this article watched the match all over again and learned to shut his mouth 1st and analyze better.. you should get fired as a writer man!
I OFFICIALY NAME you (Manuel Perez) the #1 PACQUIAO HATER in the WORLD. Every article you write is a weak jab to Pacquiao’s credibility. I love it though, it’s always good to laugh at articles like this.
BEST LINE:
“Pacquiao couldn’t handle the stare down, started smiling sheepishly and reached out to shake Hatton’s hands, as if surrendering to the more powerful fighter.”
LMAO! He was smiling because he knew how easy this fight was going to be.
This is the most accurate prediction in all of interwebz about the Hatton-Pacquiao fight. Kudos to Manuel Perez, you should be receiving a Pulitzer soon.
Now you knoe!
Well, at least he worked on his stare-down skills. lolz
pacman is scared because he nearly killed hatton.
hitman was so lucky he survived round 1
Or maybe he looks like a guy who has an ace up his sleeve – called FR and his game plan. Looks like a guy who knows he has RH’s number; and he’ll be dialing it up all night long.
great article again perez….NOT!
it was a sign of how relaxed manny was! and there was no needle between the two so why try and create any!
mannys ring entrances are the same, he always smiles! its his persona!
get back to the drawing board and write somthing worth reading
Manuel Perez’s article about Hatton intimidating Manny Pacquiao at the weigh-in is laughable. I guess someone forgot to tell Manny to act intimidated during the short two round fight.
Talk about eating crow–serve a double helping to Mr. Perez.
You should find another sport you look really stupid don’t you
mr perez all of the thing you wrote down are cooming back to you you pathetic writer!!!!!
Pac-Man really looked scared to me …scared because he thought he killed hatton… you really should write for golf world because your boxing IQ is down right terrible. Pacquiao is going to get massacred. lmao
MR WRITER, YOUR A LOSER!! IF IM YOUR BOSS, ILL FIRE U RIGHT AWAY!!! HAHAHAHA!!! PLS RETIRE WITH RICKY…. UR NOT A WRITER, NOT AN ANALYST, U R A FALSE PROPHET!!!! HAHAHAHA!!! RESIGN NOW, UR A SHAME TO THIS INSTITUTION! BYE!!!!!
Nice one Manuel – you must really enjoy your humble pie.
I know you’ll be back on here in a couple of weeks saying that it wasn’t real because ricky was rubbish – but we all remember your pre-fight predictions of an easy night for Hatton – your predictions were way off.
where are you now perez? did manny make this a little interesting?
Manuel, with Pac’s TKO2 over Hatton, what now?
Which begs the question, how stupid could you get?
Mr. Perez, once again, you are wrong. How can you predict a fight via stare-down. The one who looks away first is the one who’s scared? Is that the kind of principle you carry? I’m sorry but I have to disagree with this article. Its a joke, really. What is your job title, Mr Perez? I hope its not a sports analyst because I think you’re a poser.
as i told you b4 the fight this article is nonesense… hatton retired and manuel lopez was fired by this article agency.hahahahahahahha, pacman era, its only the the begining how about 147 pounds miguel cotto or floyd mayweather. pacquiao is like little tyson .its wow. haton used dirty tactics and not still to win.
as i told you b4 the fight this article is nonesense… hatton retired and manuel lopez was fired by this article agency.hahahahahahahha, pacman era, its the the begining how about 147 pounds miguel cotto or floyd mayweather. pacquiao is like little tyson .its wow. haton used dirty tactics and not still to win.
This might sound kiddy, but this article made me think of pacquiao as somewhat of the attitude of Goku from Dragonball Anime. Very relaxed and amused. However, the stare-down prediction was bad. No offense, but that was just straight up irrelevant to the fight. I noticed the author’s bias the first time I read the article.
“I saw his sparring partners and they looked pathetic. Small, weak and nothing like Hatton. Pacquiao is going to get massacred tonight.”
Ouch. Well there you go you racist amateur. Take a class from Lieberman. I’m so glad the replays are fantastic – without them you wouldn’t have SEEN the punch at all. And, uh, power? Pacquiao’s fist sent shockwaves through Hatton’s face – his jaw flew over to his cheekbone.
BAM.
Manuel Perez, where are you now?
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Manure Pelez
Manuel Lopez,
manuel perez, after pacman destroyed hatton in 2 rounds, what now can you say?!!! you a-hole!!!!! hahaha! How about you british suckers, how’d you like him now?!HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!
WHOEVER YOU MIGHT THINK THE NO.#1 P4P. HERE IN OUR PLACE PACMAN IS THE MAN
IN PHILIPPINES PACMAN IS THE NO.1 KILO POR KILO BOXER OF ALL TIME LOL
WHAT CAN YOU SAY……..
NOW MR PEREZ, YOU ARE WRONG AGAIN? PACMAN DONT BELIEVE IN STARE. AS WHAT PACMAN SAID “NOTHING PERSONAL, ITS JUST PLAIN BUSINESS…..”
HATTON WON IN STARING CONTEST…
PACMAN WON BY KO
People don’t bother even reading Perez articles. He’s been proven wrong again and again with stupid theories that only prove how little he knows about boxing. He’s only here to play devils advocate and stir up crap. Want to know how to stop Perez from writing here? Stop reading.
NOW, MANUEL PEREZ….HAHAHAHAHA!!!…YOUR RICKY HATTON WAS KNOCKED DOWN BY THE PACMAN THRICE!!! …HE IS FINISHED BY 2ND ROUND……HE IS A LOSER!!!…JUST LIKE DELA HOYA…… BY THE WAY, IT TOOK FLOYD MAYWEATHER 12 ROUNDS TO WIN OVER DELA HOYA…IT TOOK ONLY 8 ROUNDS FOR PACMAN…..IT TOOK FLOYD 10 ROUNDS TO KNOCK DOWN HATTON, FOR PACMAN, HATTON LASTED ONLY FOR 2 ROUNDS…….SO, NOW WHO IS THE BETTER P4P BOXER?
hey manuel… why dont you make the post fight analysis. i want to see how you make excuses for hatton like what you’ve been doing with the previous mexican fighters that pacquiao beat.
pathetic manuel… stop making foolish predictions and speculations. i wonder why this website is allowing you to write insignificant topics as this? you’re so biased agaist asians thinking that westerns are always superior =) dream on!
Ehy Manuel. It’s the other way around. Hatton can’t take Manny’s punches. Hahahaha. I can see a lot of people laughing at you when they see you.
Yeah right! Ever since, you always have a wrong prediction. Your man Hatton got knocked twice in round one and knocked out for good in the 2nd round. Take note the 2nd round. For sure you have a lot of excuses in the next few days Manuel as to why Hatton lost. Defnitely, you lose a lot of money betting on Hatton and I expect you to stop writing articles moving forward. You’re a shame to all sportswriters.
but you say paquiao is scared comn men .pacquiao always dow what he need to do. -10 star for this article totaly nonsense . ithink the writter not a fan of boxing coz he don’t know what pacquiao do when he in the wiegh in and paquiao what he do when he in the fight
Pacquiao definitely wasn’t scared. Ricky put on a serious face, but Manny looked very relaxed and seemed to be enjoying himself.
Honestly, I don’t know how you could come up with that interpretation.
Pacman’s demeanor is always subdue when the fight has not started. All you have to do is look at his recent past fights. He has never bad mouth any of his opponents. Hatton however can be arrogant and condescending. Eye to eye don’t mean anything. Hatton was all out during the pretty boy weigh-in and ready to do battle but look in the end nothing of that show mattered. Pacman as I have said is very likeable up to the moment of the first bell. Look at pacman on the way to the ring and he is all smiles, and still has the time to wave his hand to all well wishers. This demeanor is hard to come by and can be grossly be mistaken to mean some sort of submission or resignation. Cool before the fight just like calmness before the storm. Asian martial arts are very demonstrative of this behavior. The western style is brute showmanship at the outset. This all means I respectfully disagree with you.
I agree with ricki.pacman is basically a nice respectful guy, but hes a pure animal in the ring. I expect to see a fast,sharp and powerful pacman, performing brilliantly.The weigh in wont affect him
But I see the hitman doing even better. I think we’re about to witness the very best of hatton, and see Hatton winning late.Go on the hitman!
Erm, What are you on about? Pac is a humble man and does not play games outside the ring.
He will show his aggression in it.
Not sure I agree with your article to the extent that Pac Man was scared or has some how conceded this fight at the weigh in.
What I will say is how refreshing it is to see respect between to fighters and not the usual bad mouthing and the rest of that rubbish.
Looking forward to a great night for fight fans, a great night for boxing and a great night for the Hitman!!! Come on Ricky my son!!