Just recently, we witnessed one of the greatest all-time fighters being taught a lesson by a new pound for pound king. Oscar was mercifully beaten by Manny and had nothing to offer in return in the ring.
Nobody thought that this was the way the fight would go. Sure, there were people who believed that Pacman would win this fight, but I don’t believe that people could have predicted what went down that night.
Now, after such a great performance, there are multiple options open for Manny. Out of all those great fighters he could face, Hatton seems to be the clear choice. The deal is almost done, the fans have been notified, and the media is ready with their cameras and microphones.
So what does this fight mean? What kind of performance can you expect from Pacman? Will he do to Hatton what he was able to do to Oscar?
Freddie Roach says no! In a recent interview, Freddie stated that Hatton is a very dangerous fighter. He said that he was very confident in the Oscar fight, but not as confident in the Hatton fight. He warned that Hatton will “dish out a better performance than Oscar.”
“Pacquiao needs to train for at least eight weeks at his Wild Card Gym in Hollywood to be in top shape for Hatton, who is also a slugger and puncher,” he said. Roach also mentions that Hatton is a “tremendous body puncher.”
Freddie must know what he is talking about. I have heard him say nice things about other fighters, but never something of this proportion. I think that now that he's gotten Manny to the very top of the game, he is much more cautious about the fighters he does not know. Underestimating a fighter like Ricky can be very fatal to someone’s gameplan.
In my personal opinion, I think that Hatton can win this fight. He is a very active fighter with great stamina. He will trade with Manny, and I’m not so sure that Manny would win that trade-off. Hatton has energy and power to back Manny off. It’s a very dangerous fight for both fighters, and I think that one has as much to gain as the other to lose.
Source: http://bleacherreport.com/articles/95883-freddie-roach-is-cautious-with-ricky-hatton-warns-of-a-war
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Tuesday, January 6, 2009
'Dream' 2008's richest; Pacquiao earns P548M
NEW YORK - Boxing and the economy may both be struggling, but Oscar De La Hoya and Manny Pacquiao proved the biggest fights can still create a buzz.
Pacquiao's complete domination of De La Hoya last Sunday at the MGM Grand Garden in Las Vegas generated about 1.25 million pay-per-view buys, according to numbers released by HBO on Wednesday. It's only the fourth time a non-heavyweight bout in the US reached at least one million, and De La Hoya has been involved in all of them.
The pay-per-view take generated about $70 million in revenue, HBO said, making it the most successful pay-per-view event in 2008.
Of that amount, HBO will get half the earnings and the other half will be split between Pacquiao and De La Hoya based on the estimated 30-70 split they had earlier agreed on. Pacquiao’s cut was pegged at least 32 percent.
That means Pacquiao will get an estimated gross amount worth $11.2 million or P548.8 million.
As stipulated in his contract, Pacquiao was guaranteed $11 million to fight De La Hoya. GMANews.TV learned that Pacquiao would only get the higher amount between the guaranteed clause and the PPV earnings, and not both.
"When it's all counted up, it will end up at 1.35 or 1.4 million [subscriptions]," Pacquiao promoter Bob Arum of Top Rank told ESPN.com’s Dan Rafael.
Rafael’s report noted that Pacquiao’s previous pay-per-view high was 405,000 buys registered in the Juan Manuel Marquez rematch last April.
De La Hoya owns the top four non-heavyweight pay-per-view earnings. Only his showdown with Floyd Mayweather Jr. in 2007 (2.4 million buys) and a 1999 match versus Felix Trinidad (1.4 million) were higher than the weekend match.
"In this economy, our expectations were appropriately tempered," Mark Taffet, in-charge of HBO pay-per-view, also said on the ESPN report. “But 1.25 million buys shows tremendous support from boxing fans all across the country and reinforces the importance of continuing to present the biggest and best fights the sports has to offer."
The MGM Grand Garden was packed, with an announced attendance of just over 15,000.
Considered the top pound-for-pound boxer and a hero in his native Philippines, Pacquiao (48-3-2, 36 KOs) moved up two weight divisions to fight at welterweight. The one-sided bout was stopped after the eighth round when, with the fighter bruised and swollen, De La Hoya's corner threw in the towel. - AP, with GMANews.TV
Source: http://www.gmanews.tv/story/138745/Dream-2008s-richest-Pacquiao-earns-P548M
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Pacquiao's complete domination of De La Hoya last Sunday at the MGM Grand Garden in Las Vegas generated about 1.25 million pay-per-view buys, according to numbers released by HBO on Wednesday. It's only the fourth time a non-heavyweight bout in the US reached at least one million, and De La Hoya has been involved in all of them.
The pay-per-view take generated about $70 million in revenue, HBO said, making it the most successful pay-per-view event in 2008.
Of that amount, HBO will get half the earnings and the other half will be split between Pacquiao and De La Hoya based on the estimated 30-70 split they had earlier agreed on. Pacquiao’s cut was pegged at least 32 percent.
That means Pacquiao will get an estimated gross amount worth $11.2 million or P548.8 million.
As stipulated in his contract, Pacquiao was guaranteed $11 million to fight De La Hoya. GMANews.TV learned that Pacquiao would only get the higher amount between the guaranteed clause and the PPV earnings, and not both.
"When it's all counted up, it will end up at 1.35 or 1.4 million [subscriptions]," Pacquiao promoter Bob Arum of Top Rank told ESPN.com’s Dan Rafael.
Rafael’s report noted that Pacquiao’s previous pay-per-view high was 405,000 buys registered in the Juan Manuel Marquez rematch last April.
De La Hoya owns the top four non-heavyweight pay-per-view earnings. Only his showdown with Floyd Mayweather Jr. in 2007 (2.4 million buys) and a 1999 match versus Felix Trinidad (1.4 million) were higher than the weekend match.
"In this economy, our expectations were appropriately tempered," Mark Taffet, in-charge of HBO pay-per-view, also said on the ESPN report. “But 1.25 million buys shows tremendous support from boxing fans all across the country and reinforces the importance of continuing to present the biggest and best fights the sports has to offer."
The MGM Grand Garden was packed, with an announced attendance of just over 15,000.
Considered the top pound-for-pound boxer and a hero in his native Philippines, Pacquiao (48-3-2, 36 KOs) moved up two weight divisions to fight at welterweight. The one-sided bout was stopped after the eighth round when, with the fighter bruised and swollen, De La Hoya's corner threw in the towel. - AP, with GMANews.TV
Source: http://www.gmanews.tv/story/138745/Dream-2008s-richest-Pacquiao-earns-P548M
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Monday, January 5, 2009
Ricky Hatton "on board" with Pacquiao fight being in Vegas
The final stumbling block to a Manny Pacquiao-Ricky Hatton fight on May 2 vanished today when Britain's Hatton agreed that the best site to stage the bout would be Las Vegas, not his home country.
Hatton's promoter, Richard Schaefer, told The Times that he and Pacquiao's promoter, Bob Arum, have scheduled meetings Tuesday in Las Vegas with Planet Hollywood executive Robert Earl and MGM/Mirage entertainment/sports chief Richard Sturm to determine whether the 140-pound fight will be hosted at UNLV's Thomas and Mack Center (sponsored by Planet Hollywood) or MGM Grand Garden Arena, where Pacquiao defeated Oscar De La Hoya last month.
"Ricky's preference was the U.K., but he's realized that was not the best place for this fight, just like the Philippines [Pacquiao's home country] wasn't," Schaefer said. "This is right in the middle."
Although fighter contracts have yet to be signed, Schaefer said Hatton has verbally agreed to all key terms and should ink the deal "within the next week. You can't rush attorneys." Pacquiao, too, is "on board" with the terms, Schaefer said.
Hatton, after being knocked out in December 2007 by the man considered boxing's best pound-for-pound fighter then, welterweight Floyd Mayweather Jr., now gets a second shot at the holder of that mythical title in a more ideal junior-welterweight match. He pounded Paulie Malignaggi in a 140-pound bout in November.
"Being at 147 was clearly not Hatton's best weight; Ricky's unbeaten at 140," Schaefer said.
Pacquiao, voted fighter of 2008 by many boxing publications, will fight in a fourth different weight category in his fourth consecutive bout. He won super-featherweight and lightweight titles last year, then punished De La Hoya at 147 pounds.
Source: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/sports_blog/2009/01/hatton-on-board.html
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Hatton's promoter, Richard Schaefer, told The Times that he and Pacquiao's promoter, Bob Arum, have scheduled meetings Tuesday in Las Vegas with Planet Hollywood executive Robert Earl and MGM/Mirage entertainment/sports chief Richard Sturm to determine whether the 140-pound fight will be hosted at UNLV's Thomas and Mack Center (sponsored by Planet Hollywood) or MGM Grand Garden Arena, where Pacquiao defeated Oscar De La Hoya last month.
"Ricky's preference was the U.K., but he's realized that was not the best place for this fight, just like the Philippines [Pacquiao's home country] wasn't," Schaefer said. "This is right in the middle."
Although fighter contracts have yet to be signed, Schaefer said Hatton has verbally agreed to all key terms and should ink the deal "within the next week. You can't rush attorneys." Pacquiao, too, is "on board" with the terms, Schaefer said.
Hatton, after being knocked out in December 2007 by the man considered boxing's best pound-for-pound fighter then, welterweight Floyd Mayweather Jr., now gets a second shot at the holder of that mythical title in a more ideal junior-welterweight match. He pounded Paulie Malignaggi in a 140-pound bout in November.
"Being at 147 was clearly not Hatton's best weight; Ricky's unbeaten at 140," Schaefer said.
Pacquiao, voted fighter of 2008 by many boxing publications, will fight in a fourth different weight category in his fourth consecutive bout. He won super-featherweight and lightweight titles last year, then punished De La Hoya at 147 pounds.
Source: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/sports_blog/2009/01/hatton-on-board.html
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Manny Pacquiao and Ricky Hatton moving closer to the ring
Ricky Hatton's promoter, Richard Schaefer, said today that "it looks like we'll have something wrapped up by the end of the year" to stage a Hatton-Manny Pacquiao fight May 2, likely in Las Vegas (possibly at the MGM Grand or a Planet Hollywood-sponsored card at Thomas and Mack Center).
Pacquiao promoter Bob Arum discussed fight plans with the Filipino sensation while attending Pacquiao's 30th birthday celebration this week in the Philippines. Schaefer, meanwhile, has maintained contact with Hatton and his family.
"We're getting real close, and the more time people know this fight is coming, the better," Schaefer said. "It'll be Pac-Man versus Hit Man, who do you like?"
Hatton was impressive in November, battering Paulie Malignaggi in a 140-pound fight, but lightweight champion Pacquiao last month pounded Oscar De La Hoya into likely retirement.
Source: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/sports_blog/2008/12/progress-on-pac.html
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Ricky Hatton and Manny Pacquiao agree to fight in Vegas
According to Lance Pugmire of the LA Times, Ricky Hatton’s Promoter Richard Schaefer told the LA Times that the Location of the fight will be in Las Vegas, Nevada not England or the Philippines . The Venue is still being considered but both sides for Hatton and Pacquiao agree to allow the fight to take place on neutral ground. Fighter contracts have not been signed yet but the choice of Location has been agreed upon.
Quotes by Richard Schaefer from the LA Times Article
“Ricky’s preference was the U.K., but he’s realized that was not the best place for this fight, just like the Philippines [Pacquiao's home country] wasn’t,” Schaefer said. “This is right in the middle.”
“Being at 147 was clearly not Hatton’s best weight; Ricky’s unbeaten at 140,” Schaefer said.
Source: http://www.nowboxing.com/2009/01/ricky-hatton-and-manny-pacquiao-agree-to-fight-in-vegas/
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Quotes by Richard Schaefer from the LA Times Article
“Ricky’s preference was the U.K., but he’s realized that was not the best place for this fight, just like the Philippines [Pacquiao's home country] wasn’t,” Schaefer said. “This is right in the middle.”
“Being at 147 was clearly not Hatton’s best weight; Ricky’s unbeaten at 140,” Schaefer said.
Source: http://www.nowboxing.com/2009/01/ricky-hatton-and-manny-pacquiao-agree-to-fight-in-vegas/
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Sunday, January 4, 2009
Report: Pacquiao-Hatton bout in Las Vegas, not UK
MANILA, Philippines – So much for British fans eagerly awaiting the Manny Pacquiao-Ricky Hatton fight at Wembley Arena as promoters chose Las Vegas as the possible venue for the 2009 mega-bout between two of boxing’s power punchers.
According to London’s The Telegraph, Top Rank Inc. of promoter Bob Arum has already decided that the fight will take place on May 2 in a still undisclosed venue in Las Vegas. Pacquiao and Hatton would reportedly share the proceeds expected to generate £40 million ($58,198,749).
Ray Hatton, Ricky’s father and manager, is still negotiating to take the mega-bout to British shores where they are set to host Pacquiao at Wembley Arena, which can seat 100,000 paying fans.
“From our viewpoint, the fight is all but done and will go ahead. We’re just still negotiating the terms of the location. We want to have the fight over here for the British fans and we’ve been trying to put together a package to show that we can financially equal, or better, what they can do over there," said the elder Hatton in an interview with The Telegraph.
However, US cable giant Home Box Office (HBO) has ruled out a UK venue and insisted the fight to take place in Nevada.
Arum said one of the things left to be settled was whether they would use the MGM Grand Garden Arena, which has a 15,000 seating capacity or the Thomas & Mack Center, which can hold 19,000 paying fans.
Hatton’s father is also planning a 12-week training for his son to prepare the British champion against Pacquiao.
The training, to be conducted by Floyd Mayweather Sr., could start early February in Britain and will move to Florida before setting in Las Vegas a few weeks before the scheduled May 2 match. – GMANews.TV
Source: http://www.gmanews.tv/story/142444/Report-Pacquiao-Hatton-bout-in-Las-Vegas-not-UK
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According to London’s The Telegraph, Top Rank Inc. of promoter Bob Arum has already decided that the fight will take place on May 2 in a still undisclosed venue in Las Vegas. Pacquiao and Hatton would reportedly share the proceeds expected to generate £40 million ($58,198,749).
Ray Hatton, Ricky’s father and manager, is still negotiating to take the mega-bout to British shores where they are set to host Pacquiao at Wembley Arena, which can seat 100,000 paying fans.
“From our viewpoint, the fight is all but done and will go ahead. We’re just still negotiating the terms of the location. We want to have the fight over here for the British fans and we’ve been trying to put together a package to show that we can financially equal, or better, what they can do over there," said the elder Hatton in an interview with The Telegraph.
However, US cable giant Home Box Office (HBO) has ruled out a UK venue and insisted the fight to take place in Nevada.
Arum said one of the things left to be settled was whether they would use the MGM Grand Garden Arena, which has a 15,000 seating capacity or the Thomas & Mack Center, which can hold 19,000 paying fans.
Hatton’s father is also planning a 12-week training for his son to prepare the British champion against Pacquiao.
The training, to be conducted by Floyd Mayweather Sr., could start early February in Britain and will move to Florida before setting in Las Vegas a few weeks before the scheduled May 2 match. – GMANews.TV
Source: http://www.gmanews.tv/story/142444/Report-Pacquiao-Hatton-bout-in-Las-Vegas-not-UK
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Pacquiao, Hatton camps to iron out revenue split
MANILA, Philippines – The only thing left to be settled in this year’s Manny Pacquiao-Ricky Hatton mega-bout is the revenue split for both fighters.
PhilBoxing.com has reported that both camps has agreed on a May 2 fight in Las Vegas, the question that remains is which fighter gets the larger slice of the pay per view shares and the bigger guaranteed purse.
Both fighters enjoyed their biggest purse so far when they fought against Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Oscar De La Hoya in 2007 and 2008.
Hatton reportedly got $10 million despite being knocked out by Mayweather in the 10th round while Pacquiao’s side has yet to reveal the exact amount he received after forcing De La Hoya to call it quits after eight rounds.
Reports have it that Pacquiao could earn as much as $15 million which includes his guaranteed purse, PPV share, Philippine TV rights, live gate receipts and other financial bonuses.
Though both fighters are world title holders, Pacquiao is the more popular among the two and is a consistent attraction among the PPV audience while Hatton has yet to become a familiar figure in the US despite fighting five times across the Atlantic.
One solution, PhilBoxing.com sees, is that both camps should meet halfway and split 50-50 the PPV proceeds in the UK while Pacquiao should get 65 per cent over the rest. They can also split the ticket sales since Hatton’s English fans are willing to cross the Atlantic just to watch the British champion fight boxing’s current superstar.
It was earlier reported, that the Pacquiao-Hatton fight will be held at the Wembley Arena that could seat 100,000 fans of both fighters. – GMANews.TV
Source: http://www.gmanews.tv/story/142431/Pacquiao-Hatton-camps-to-iron-out-revenue-split
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PhilBoxing.com has reported that both camps has agreed on a May 2 fight in Las Vegas, the question that remains is which fighter gets the larger slice of the pay per view shares and the bigger guaranteed purse.
Both fighters enjoyed their biggest purse so far when they fought against Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Oscar De La Hoya in 2007 and 2008.
Hatton reportedly got $10 million despite being knocked out by Mayweather in the 10th round while Pacquiao’s side has yet to reveal the exact amount he received after forcing De La Hoya to call it quits after eight rounds.
Reports have it that Pacquiao could earn as much as $15 million which includes his guaranteed purse, PPV share, Philippine TV rights, live gate receipts and other financial bonuses.
Though both fighters are world title holders, Pacquiao is the more popular among the two and is a consistent attraction among the PPV audience while Hatton has yet to become a familiar figure in the US despite fighting five times across the Atlantic.
One solution, PhilBoxing.com sees, is that both camps should meet halfway and split 50-50 the PPV proceeds in the UK while Pacquiao should get 65 per cent over the rest. They can also split the ticket sales since Hatton’s English fans are willing to cross the Atlantic just to watch the British champion fight boxing’s current superstar.
It was earlier reported, that the Pacquiao-Hatton fight will be held at the Wembley Arena that could seat 100,000 fans of both fighters. – GMANews.TV
Source: http://www.gmanews.tv/story/142431/Pacquiao-Hatton-camps-to-iron-out-revenue-split
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