Nobody should expect a re-enactment of the American Revolution but boxing fans who salute the Stars and Stripes, Union Jack and flags all over the world have reason to expect fireworks Dec. 8.
That's when pound-for-pound champ Floyd Mayweather of Grand Rapids, Mich. and England's Ricky Hatton will get it on in a 12-round battle of unbeaten welterweights.
Ricky Hatton wants a shot at Floyd Mayweather Jr., considered by many to be the best pound-for-pound fighter in boxing. It looks like he might get his wish.
Mayweather said Tuesday he will come out of retirement to put Hatton in his place.Floyd Mayweather Jr wrote:
Ricky Hatton cannot fight. He throws one punch at a time and then holds. Hatton is the most overrated fighter of the last 25 years.
"I was retired but I'll sign to fight Hatton right now. I've tried to let the things he said about me slide by, but now he's 'dissing' me on national TV and I want to shut him up. I've never wanted to hurt an opponent like I do Hatton.
Hatton's one-punch knockout win Saturday night over Jose Luis Castillo to retain his world junior welterweight championship just might have been the breakthrough the British fighter needed to convince fans outside his native country that he is the real thing at 140 pounds.
Like Mayweather, Hatton is undefeated. Unlike Mayweather, he fights in a wild, all-out style that should prove popular as he continues his campaign in the United States.
"There was more action in the four rounds of this fight than Floyd showed in his entire career," Hatton said.
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