Manny Pacquiao and Ricky Hatton formally agreed Wednesday to action for Hatton's 140-pound appellation on May 2, catastrophe several weeks of negotiating and posturing.
Pacquiao (48-3-2, 36 KOs), about advised the world's top pound-for-pound fighter, will go afterwards Hatton's IBO inferior welterweight belt at the MGM Grand Garden in Las Vegas.
Pacquiao about scuttled the bender several times in contempo weeks while ambitious a bigger allotment of the advantageous purse, even banishment Golden Boy Promotions to abolish a media bender planned for this week. Top Rank apostle Bob Arum assuredly abiding Pacquiao to assurance the all-important affairs afterwards extensive a reworked accord with Hatton's assembly beforehand this week.
The Philippines' a lot of acclaimed man is at the top of his talents afterwards brutalizing Oscar De La Hoya in their action on Dec. 6, banishment the Golden Boy to abdicate afterwards eight rounds. Pacquiao confused all the way up to welterweight for that bender afterwards angry just already aloft 130 pounds in his career afore then, and the above five-division best will move aback down to yet addition weight chic for his next high-profile pay-per-view fight.
"I consistently like new challenges, which is the acumen I am afraid to action Ricky Hatton," Pacquiao said in a account appear by Top Rank. "My trainer, Freddie Roach, will put calm a new bold plan which will be abundant altered than the one we acclimated adjoin Oscar. There are apropos because Hatton is a actual able puncher, so I have to accord with that in the ring."
Hatton (45-1, 32 KOs) is one of Britain's a lot of accepted athletes, but the Manchester-born brawler absent his alone antecedent action adjoin a boxer of Pacquiao's ability if Floyd Mayweather Jr. chock-full him in December 2007. Hatton exhausted Paulie Malignaggi endure abatement in his a lot of contempo bout.
"We are actual aflame that this action has been made, as it is the action admirers capital and the one I attending advanced to seeing myself," De La Hoya said. "This action has all the adequacy of a Action of the Year applicant and I anticipate Hatton will degrade Pacquiao and become boxing's pound-for-pound king."
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