"Undefeated"
Tour Ends
At The Great Hall in Manchester
Story & Photos By
Glen Smith and Kevin Platt
Mayweather and Hatton began their trek in typical Los
Angeles sunshine, and in like fashion, the tour came to
an end in the typical Manchester, England weather, that
being pouring rain.
Oscar De La Hoya took the podium and announced that the time
has come for this fight, “and now someone’s O has got to
go!”
Billy Graham was next up and he
reminisced, “It seems like yesterday the Ricky came to the gym
as 17yr old upstart and I told him he could become undisputed
champion of world! I said he would beat Kostya Tszyu an now I’m
telling you he'll beat Floyd Mayweather to become best pound for
pound fighter in the world.”
Ricky Hatton finally let loose after a week of torment from
Floyd saying, “Floyd, will you stop touching my "arse" you poof.
You've been talking about kicking my “arse” all week, I think
there’s something wrong with you!.” Speaking on the shortage of
tickets for Brits, Hatton said, “I'm disappointed only 3,900
tickets but 20,000 fans will still be going over to the U.S.A.
for the weekend!"
“Floyd maybe
best pound for pound fighter in the world but I’m the most
exciting fighter in the world,” added Hatton. The quote of the
day came from Ricky when he was referring to Mayweather’s
running and dancing, " I’ve got special training partners,
Forrest Gump and
Carl Lewis, and I got a message for you Floyd, you can
only run so far, you’ll eventually reach the ropes, that’s when
I’ll get you. I’ll look forward to seeing you on Dec. 8th
son."
Mayweather addressed the crowd saying, " Thanks to my
many British fans, I’ve got nothing but love from you"
"I’m not best the best pound for pound fighter for no
reason, its going to be one hell of a fight" " I don't
need to back off him, I’m the bigger man, it’ll be a
hell of a ride."
As
the proceedings closed, Mayweather could be seen dancing
to a Hatton song on the stage while wearing a Manchester
United jersey. While dancing Floyd told the crowd, “I'm
in a league of my own!"
That may be
true, but is Floyd talking about the dancing moves we will be
seeing on Dancing With The Stars, or was that a suggestion of
what he may be doing all night on December 8th…dancing?
