James Moore, 16-1 (10 KOS), a native of County Wicklow, Ireland, who fights out of Queens, New York, has been training hard at Freddie Roach’s Wild Card Gym in Los Angeles for his December 13 challenge of NABF junior middleweight champion Yuri Foreman, 26-0 (8 KOS), at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City.
Ricky Hatton
Hatton/Malignaggi, Prize Fighter Preview
By Iwan Evans: York Hall in Bethnal Green is having a busy period in November and that busy period continues on Saturday night as Prizefigher rolls in to town. This time it’s the middleweights in action and here I am going to preview all eight fighters who start the night in the competition.
Hatton vs. Malignaggi – Breakdown and Prediction
By Alan Thomson: Who’s the man? The Magic Man or the Hit Man? The slickster from Brooklyn or the brawler from Manchester?
Although from what we’re hearing from the Hatton camp, it may be the slickster vs. the new and improved boxer. Hatton maintains that we’ll see a new Ricky in the ring on Saturday, one who will demonstrate more honed boxing skills than we’ve seen from him in the past, courtesy of new trainer Floyd Mayweather Sr.
Is David Haye The Man to Unify The Heavyweight Division? Malignaggi – Hatton Prediction
By Simon Hirst: Last weekend, David Haye defeated Monte Barrett after knocking him down five times before the referee stopped it. Haye came in the ring looking calm and confident and throughout the fight, never looked in huge trouble. Barrett was largely ineffective with his wild throws and Haye used his speed to avoid the good majority of these, if not all of them.
Two more for Hatton?
By Daniel Askew: Firstly lets start by looking at next week fight between Hatton and Malignaggi. Malignaggi is a more than competent fighter and given his record of 25 (5) – 1 (0) he should prove to be a difficult fighter for Hatton to beat. Malignaggi has only ever been beaten by Cotto who I feel despite being beaten himself by Antonio Margarito is one of the top pound for pound fighters at this time (so no shame there). Malignaggi’s awkward style could make Hatton look bad and maybe lose some rounds through being outboxed.
Hatton-Malignaggi: Does Ricky Have Anything To Prove Anymore?
By Scott Gilfoid: After a fine early career with wins over a faded Vince Phillips and Kostya Tszyu, as well as many other moderately good fighters, maybe Ricky Hatton (44-1, 31 KOs) has proven all that he needs to prove and should consider retiring from boxing.
Like Joe Calzaghe, he can rightly claim that he has no other real challenges in the sport and that he would be wasting his time by facing fine junior welterweights like Timothy Bradley, Junior Witter, Andreas Kotelnik or Joan Guzman.
Hatton-Malignaggi: Ricky Looking To Do Some Damage To Paulie
By Jim Dower: Former International Boxing Federation light welterweight champion Ricky Hatton (44-1, 31 KO’s) will be stepping foot in the ring with his lightest puncher in ages when he takes on former IBF light welterweight champion Paulie Malignaggi (25-1, 5 KOs) on November 22nd at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.
Hatton, 30, is looking to make a good showing against Malignaggi, as well grab a nice paycheck, against the light-hitting, defensive-oriented Malignaggi.
Ricky Hatton and Paulie Malignaggi
By Daniel “stick” Ciminera: With just under two weeks to go until the 140lbs fight between two men at completely opposite ends of the boxing spectrum, the old slugger v the young technician. Yet, it would seem that nobody cares that this fight is taking place. I believe this is simply due to the fact that Hatton lost to Mayweather and then didn’t come back and knock out Lazcano as we thought he could/should in the UK.
I’m sure I’m not the only one excited about this fight, I can’t be?!!?! It’s got class written all over it. Hatton at a turning point in his career having lost to Mayweather and then a slower than usual, quiet affair against Lazcano, is needing a win and a big win at that to have any chance of a few more fights to end on a high as Joe Calzaghe has just done.
Why Isn’t Ricky Hatton Fighting Timothy Bradley?
By Jim Dower: Rather than taking on the much stiffer challenge against unbeaten WBC light welterweight champion Timothy Bradley (23-0, 11 KOs), Ricky Hatton (44-1, 31 KOs) is going to be facing the much lighter threat by taking on former IBF light welterweight champion Paulie Malignaggi (25-1, 5 KOs) on November 22nd, at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada. At stake will be Hatton’s obscure IBO title, rather than the IBF belt, which was vacated by Malignaggi recently.
However, Hatton would probably been much better off if he had opted not to fight Malignaggi at all, and instead selected the young, faster, harder punching WBC champion Bradley, who many boxing experts feel is perhaps the best fighter in the division. While there is some disagreement as to whether Bradley is better than Hatton, probably most experts would agree that he’d wipe the deck with Malignaggi if given the opportunity.
Will Hatton rule the world?
By Jordan Taylor: As with most of the UK’s population, back in December 2007, we were rooting for Ricky Hatton to beat the great Floyd Matweather. Hatton up until that fight had had a fine run in the ring, taking his tally to 44 fights without loss, beating the likes of Juan Urango, Luis Collazo, Jose Luis Castillo and the great Kosta Tszyu on the way. He was a P4P fighter, and was named The Ring magazines fighter of the year back in 2005. Now it seems Ricky Hatton is associated with phrases like ‘past it, ‘over the hill’ or ‘over rated’. I personally find it quite irritating, and totally unjust.
Hatton now find himself at a pivotal point in his career. If (I am pretty confident he will) he beats Malignaggi, there are some monster fights waiting. Oscar De la Hoya looks pretty certain at Wembley stadium in front of 100, 000 fans, as does the fight with the Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao at the same venue. These two fights alone would generate so much interest, appealing to both Purists and the mainstream media. The later in particular, as the two fighters have such large fan-bases, and I believe will showcase a supreme meeting of 2 fighters. The magnitude of thee events can only be good for boxing, and money wise for all parties wise, you are looking at hundreds of millions in revenue.