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The fight is aptly named "Undefeated." They are two of the best and most exciting fighters in the sport today. With a combined record of 81-0, pound-for-pound king of the ring and world welterweight champion "Pretty Boy" Floyd Mayweather will meet British icon and universally recognized world junior welterweight champion Ricky "The Hitman" Hatton for the world welterweight championship. This will be the biggest match-up of two undefeated welterweights since the record setting mega-fight between Oscar de la Hoya and Felix Trinidad in 1999. Discuss this fight here.
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Re: FLOYD MAYWEATHER FACES RICKY HATTON IN WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP BOUT
Dec 22, 2007 11:59 PM
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Shameless plug for my blog article. Peep the excerpt below where I attempt to explain my "socio-argument."
The biggest benefactors have been professional basketball and football. Since the early 1900s, boxing has often been a ?gateway (to socio-economic inclusion)? sport for the disadvantaged, especially ethnic and racial minorities. Dominated early on by the disenfranchised descendants of Irish, Italian and Jewish immigrants and later by African-Americans, Mexicans and Puerto Ricans, professional boxing in the U.S. has historically been a platform for members of isolated ethnic groups to garner world fame and riches. However, as the prominence of the sport gradually declined over the years (i.e. after the ?80s ?golden age?), it was no longer seen as the ideal avenue to athletic renown or wealth. With their guaranteed contracts and endorsement opportunities, professional basketball and football began to trump boxing in the ?80s, as a safer and more profitable alternative to greener pastures outside of the ghetto for many ethnic and racial minorities, who have historically dominated the sport.
These same groups, socio-economically, have continued to dominate the sport, but the major difference is that they have increasingly come from overseas. Much to the chagrin of the major television and cable networks, and some jingoistic fans, the sport has been siphoned into ethnic, global enclaves - with many American fighters toiling in relative obscurity. The heavyweight division is the greatest example of this, with many Eastern European fighters now dominating the rankings. Muhammad Ali and his ?world-touring? tendencies - fighting in places like Kinshasa, Zaire against George Foreman to Manila, Philippines against Smokin? Joe Frazier, truly globalized the sport for the better. Although Americans are very inclusive in many ways, we have come to learn that when it comes to boxing in general, and heavyweights in particular, they often want their boxers as American as apple pie.
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Edited by jarule2007 at 12/22/2007 8:59 PM
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Re: FLOYD MAYWEATHER FACES RICKY HATTON IN WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP BOUT
Dec 22, 2007 9:04 PM
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> Race war!!! LOL Not...man, we all know the best
> fighters are generally spawned out of bleak political
> or socio-economic situations, nothing more or less.
> So judge the man himself, not the flag that flies
> over his head...like this post may do to some of you!
> 
America is one of the richest countries in the world. So why do our fighters come from such impoverished environs?
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Edited by ibigtimefan1 at 12/22/2007 6:05 PM
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Re: FLOYD MAYWEATHER FACES RICKY HATTON IN WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP BOUT
Dec 22, 2007 6:07 PM
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Race war!!! LOL Not...man, we all know the best fighters are generally spawned out of bleak political or socio-economic situations, nothing more or less. So judge the man himself, not the flag that flies over his head...like this post may do to some of you!
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Re: FLOYD MAYWEATHER FACES RICKY HATTON IN WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP BOUT
Dec 22, 2007 2:35 AM
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>Europeans will and have already staked their claim in boxing and they won't >need to come here to prove anything.
Why NOT?
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Re: FLOYD MAYWEATHER FACES RICKY HATTON IN WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP BOUT
Dec 20, 2007 10:52 AM
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LOL!
good post good post
my dad is like super pro-USSR
and he used to tell me and my brother that it was russians who invented baseball, LOL!! but it was a bit different see.
you threw the ball between four bases. my poor dad doesnt realzie that that is actually called catch.
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Re: FLOYD MAYWEATHER FACES RICKY HATTON IN WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP BOUT
Dec 19, 2007 4:59 PM
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> > Americans only win the events that matter. You
> can
> > keep your synchronized swimming champ thanks.
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> > and boxing champs, and wrestling champs
> > and basketball champs.
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> > basically americans win sports that they
> invented and
> > even then they dont win all the time LOL!!! so
> they
> > import guys from cuba Ghanaa, canada, Russia,
> and
> > friggin Africa to play for them
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> > Hey I love the country but you gotta see through
> the
> > bullshit
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> >
> > but still a funny post!
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> correct me if I am wrong, but did the USA not invent
> Baseball a sport in which we have not won Gold in in
> god knows how long?
I think Abner Doubleday was Welsh actually. 
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Re: FLOYD MAYWEATHER FACES RICKY HATTON IN WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP BOUT
Dec 19, 2007 3:34 PM
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> Americans only win the events that matter. You can
> keep your synchronized swimming champ thanks.
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> and boxing champs, and wrestling champs
> and basketball champs.
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> basically americans win sports that they invented and
> even then they dont win all the time LOL!!! so they
> import guys from cuba Ghanaa, canada, Russia, and
> friggin Africa to play for them
>
> Hey I love the country but you gotta see through the
> bullshit
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>
> but still a funny post!
correct me if I am wrong, but did the USA not invent Baseball a sport in which we have not won Gold in in god knows how long?
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Re: FLOYD MAYWEATHER FACES RICKY HATTON IN WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP BOUT
Dec 19, 2007 3:20 PM
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Americans only win the events that matter. You can keep your synchronized swimming champ thanks.
and boxing champs, and wrestling champs
and basketball champs.
basically americans win sports that they invented and even then they dont win all the time LOL!!! so they import guys from cuba Ghanaa, canada, Russia, and friggin Africa to play for them
Hey I love the country but you gotta see through the bullshit
but still a funny post!
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Re: FLOYD MAYWEATHER FACES RICKY HATTON IN WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP BOUT
Dec 19, 2007 12:06 PM
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He should ask for a rematch against that corner that took him out. I don't think he would win a rematch, but he might make it the full 12.
After all he is younger and throws lots and lots of punches.
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Re: FLOYD MAYWEATHER FACES RICKY HATTON IN WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP BOUT
Dec 19, 2007 12:04 PM
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That would possibly be a good tune-up fight for Hatton.
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Re: FLOYD MAYWEATHER FACES RICKY HATTON IN WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP BOUT
Dec 19, 2007 10:14 AM
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welsh world lightweight champion gavin rees wants hatton next wathc this space
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Re: FLOYD MAYWEATHER FACES RICKY HATTON IN WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP BOUT
Dec 19, 2007 4:56 AM
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Mayweather.\
Dela Ohyeah.\
Deleon...........\
Diaz J.............> Vs.Pacquiao....
Guzman........../
David D........./
Hatton........../
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Re: FLOYD MAYWEATHER FACES RICKY HATTON IN WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP BOUT
Dec 18, 2007 6:51 PM
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> Who's an american fighter?
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> The guy that knocked Ricky on his face!
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Oops.
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Re: FLOYD MAYWEATHER FACES RICKY HATTON IN WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP BOUT
Dec 18, 2007 6:50 PM
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> There are so many creeds and colours, ethnicities and
> cultures, that you don't really have the same
> camerarderie as other countries who have more ancient
> ancestral roots.
> Blacks will support blacks, Hispanic support
> Hispanics, etc etc
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> What is an American ?
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> Who is an American fighter ?
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> Where are American fans ?
You've never seen our boys play football. All kinds of ass slappin' going on.
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Re: FLOYD MAYWEATHER FACES RICKY HATTON IN WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP BOUT
Dec 18, 2007 4:39 PM
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Who's an american fighter?
The guy that knocked Ricky on his face!
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