Mayweather hatton update

That incident also took place last August. The judge in the case dismissed a felony coercion charge. Roger still faces charges of battery-strangulation and battery causing substantial bodily harm. A trial is scheduled for June 1. Ricky Hatton is staying quiet on whether he plans to fight again, but he is marching fast with his Hatton Promotions company.

Hatton is in talks with lightweight Alex Arthur, who recently split with long time promoter Frank Warren. If you think a guy who uses his legs when he boxes, like Ray Leonard and Muhammad Ali, is a runner, then Mayweather is a sprinter.

But fighters only resort to fighting flat-footed because they have no choice. Mayweather has plenty of options, but he's smart and chooses to hit and not be hit. Now, when it comes to running, I'm going to say this: After he disposes of Hatton, I want to see Mayweather against the Cotto-Mosley winner. If he doesn't do that, then he's running. On Dec. Hatton will defeat Mayweather and put a to rest the fallacy that "The Pretender" is the best pound-for-pound It was just a matter of time.

No matter where Mayweather looks, defeat was just around the corner. Whether it was Hatton, Mosley, Cotto, or Vernon Forrest, Mayweather had painted himself into a corner after running from one division to another, fighting the weakest of the champions, then running away before the strongest sniffed him out. Tadd Dickey. You're going to be one disappointed young man, Mr.

You can have your opinion about the guy's style, but give him credit. He's a guy who weighed pounds when he walked into the ring to face De La Hoya in May.

De La Hoya weighed nearly I am an avid boxing fan and have studied as much as I can of the history of sport as well as some of its prominent athletes. I was arguing with a friend of mine and I told him that Roy Jones' speed and agility was the reason he looked so awesome when he fought. His skill level was superior but only by a little. Plus he dodged a lot of fighters like Darius Michalczewski when he stepped up to light heavyweight.

Jones had phenomenal physical skills, but not great technical boxing skills. He was so quick, both of hand and foot, that in his prime he was almost impossible to catch. Mayweather, for example, is equally as quick as Jones and far more technically proficient.

And when you talk about fighters who dodged opponents, Jones' name should be near the top of the list. Is that true? Fedor is by far the best MMA fighter I have ever seen.

He can keep his composure in any situation and did so even after he got slammed in the head by Kevin Randleman. I hear some comments, on Fedor but I honestly think he is better than anybody on the face of this Earth. All the evidence you need are in the matches he's had in Pride. Carlos DeSousa. Emelianenko, the Pride heavyweight champion, is as good as Carlos says. In the first of our monthly Yahoo! Sports Top 10 polls, Fedor was the unanimous choice of all eight voters.

The unmistakeable confidence of Hatton, Graham and those around him contributed to the swell of optimism surrounding his prospects, and by fight week those there to support him dominated the Vegas strip. Everybody who came on — everybody — went for Hatton to win.

He seemed on such a high. He looked so taut, clearly up for it, but in danger of over-cooking. I wanted Ricky to slip and slide, put singles in, to the pit of the stomach, round the side, and screw-shots; single shots to slowly try to break him down. Those were the tactics. Hatton was regardless ultimately unable to apply them when, despite moments of encouragement and forcing Mayweather to fight at an unusually-high pace, American referee Joe Cortez repeatedly undermined his greatest chance of success by forcing the fighters to break amid Hatton seeking to fight on the inside.

The tiring challenger was hurt in the eighth by a right hand as powerful as any Mayweather has thrown, and in his aggressive pursuit of his own fight-changing punch, in the 10th was knocked down for only the second time in his career, having gone headfirst into the corner-post when the American landed that hurtful check left hook.

By the last few rounds I barely had anything left, because of the way the fight was being refereed. We can all say, "Well, Hatton only lost to the two best of an era," but those losses might well have really stuck to Hatton, and the fact that most feel he's finished as a top-line professional fighter probably didn't do much to improve his feeling if he was having trouble dealing with the professional setbacks.

Hopefully, Hatton will get the help he needs and will live a long and healthy life, in, out of, or just around the ring. Watson of the Chicago Bulls is involved in the domestic violence case against Mayweather, as Watson is Josie Harris' current boyfriend. According to the report, Mayweather read text messages on Josie's phone Watson , who plays for the Chicago Bulls. According to the report, Mayweather screamed, "'Are you having sex with C.