Pacquiao Hatton Fight Update

After coming back from his Caribbean cruise trip with the family, Ricky Hatton is starting his training for his May 2 fight with current pound for pound king, Manny Pacquiao. Hatton is going to focus in what could be the biggest fight of his career and 2009's most exciting boxing duel. As we know, Ricky is gunning for the pound for pound crown having lost to Floyd Mayweather Jr., the previous pound for pound king until he retired early. As for his chances with Pacquiao, Hatton is confident that he will dominate the fight and win.

As he has a tendency to bloat out ("Fatton") when he's not training for a fight, Hatton has promised that during training he makes up for his excesses by living like a monk. I hope like a Shaolin monk. Focus will be the key for Hatton in winning this fight. Manny Pacquiao is dangerous, lightning quick and has a good chin. For Hatton to win, he needs to show his very best come fight night. Anything less is not good enough. He promised to train hard and I hope he does. Manny Pacquiao has challenged and won against very good opponent. Just because he came from a lower weight class, it doesn't mean that he can't box well at 140 lbs.

Meanwhile, Manny Pacquiao is finishing some showbiz commitments in the Philippines and is relaxing a bit before he starts training. He assured fans though that he's not taking Hatton lightly. He and his trainer Freddie Roach acknowledge the dangerous weapons that the Hitman can throw at them and is devising different tactics to defuse the Hatton bomb. Freddie Roach, trainer of the year, is a brilliant coach and is studying past fights of Hatton so that he learns as much as he can about the boxer. From this, he promised to devise a fight plan for Manny while predicting a knockout at the later rounds. He has already started picking sparring partners who are similar in style as Hatton.

On the other hand, Mayweather Sr. and Lee Beard, Hatton's trainers are confident that Hatton will knockout Pacquiao in the early round. Here's what Lee Beard himself said in an interview,

"Manny makes some massive errors and he is very repetitive in some of his movements and with certain punches and the way he throws them. "

"I think that Ricky will stop Manny within 6 rounds, I think the first time Ricky gets hold of him and unloads Manny wont know what's hit him. Ricky is a big Light Welter and has been in with some huge punchers, people like Kostya Tszyu and Juan Urango, obviously they haven't got the speed of Manny but Ricky has seen the speed before in Mayweather."

Manny Pacquiao has a straightforward message to Lee Beard, "Let your ward train hard and good luck come fight night."

What a classy exchange of verbal attacks from the two camps. Anybody selling cheap ticket to the Pacquiao-Hatton fight? Email me.