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When the Pretty Boy Floyd Mayweather, Jr. and Ricky Hitman Hatton meet on Saturday night for the Ring Magazine welterweight championship, the two will most likely be partaking in the biggest fight of the year. However, I am not sure the excitement in the ring will match the excitement leading up to the fight. Based on Mayweather’s defensive style and Hatton’s aggressive, yet often offensive, grappling style, this matchup may turn up sour.

Mayweather has advantages in boxing ability, defense, foot speed, hand speed, and reach. Hatton has advantages in physical strength and punching power. On paper, this appears to be the proverbial bull (Hatton) versus matador (Mayweather) confrontation, right? Well, I do not see it exactly playing out that way.

In a fight that even the Pretty Boy won’t be able to prevent from getting ugly, he will still be able to use his reach, speed, and underrated in-fighting abilities to beat an onrushing Hatton to the punch over twelve brisk rounds of action. Although Floyd’s stamina will be tested by the controlled aggression of Hatton during the fight, anyone who has watched Mayweather’s nocturnal training habits on the reality series Mayweather-Hatton 24×7 knows that it is unlikely that he will peter out. In a fight that will resemble Mayweather’s win against Carlos Tata Baldomir for the welterweight title a little over a year ago, look for the Pretty Boy to win an uncomfortable, yet unanimous decision this Saturday night over a game Ricky Hatton.

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