Pacquiao v. Hatton
There’s nothing like fight night in Las Vegas. My brother and I went go watch Manny Pacquiao SHUT DOWN Ricky Hatton in just under two complete rounds.
Last time, we got tickets to the closed circuit broadcast in one of the MGM conference rooms which was good enough and I would’ve been happy to have gone back. However, this time we got tickets to the arena and I’ve got to say… there’s no going back!!!
The Brit-fans were loud, unified, and I must say rather respectful. They were singing this song and I thought, “What’s up with the song?” Some Hatton fan snuck in a drum. A drum!!! And four of his buddies had brass instruments. How does that make it through the metal detectors?!
I actually thought the Limeys had us beat… as fans but no way was their man going to beat Manny in the ring.
When Hatton went down for the second time in the first round it was certainly no surprise and no one remained sitting. The entire stadium started counting the seconds to end of this fight. When we heard the ten-second warning at the end of the 2nd I thought, “Well, at least we saw two full rounds.”
Just then, with three seconds left, Manny connected with the spot in Hatton’s jaw that serves basically as a human off switch. As Santos likes to put it over and over again, Ricky landed perfectly on top of the Rock Star Energy Drink logo in the middle of the ring.
When he went down I looked over to my brother and he let out the same roar that brought me back to the winning homerun of Game 2 of the 2005 World Series in Comiskey as the White Sox’ Scott Podsednik sent one into the right field stands.
Sport is great.
(We can’t wait to go back this winter when Manny takes on Mayweather Jr.)
