Here is my prediction on the coming Paquiao-Hatton fight in Las Vega, Nevada.

Many people around the world are very excited in the coming fight of Manny Paquiao and Ricky Hatton. Millions of people around the world from Hatton's place in Manchester, England to Paquiao's homeland the Philippines are expecting a bloody war between this two hottest boxing superstars at this moment. As Hatton is known for his brawling style of boxing and keeps going and going through out the fight. While paquiao is almost a complete boxer, the power, the speed, boxing skills and speed all of that is on Manny's caliber.

Here's the way I look and predict the fight will be going to happen.

Round One - more likely first round will be not exciting both fighter will just throwing their jabs and measuring each other until the end of the first round. I will score this round a draw.

Score: Paquiao 10 -10 Hatton

Round Two - same as the round one both fighter's still very careful of their moves in the first minute throwing jabs, in the last minute of this round Manny will throw some of his left and right combinations and hatton will be hit. This round goes to manny.

Score: Paquiao 20 -19 Hatton

Round Three - in this round we will expect that hatton will be the aggressive fighter because he knows that round two is in favor of manny, at the start of the round hatton will throw a lot of punches but it won't hurt manny and miss some of those because of manny's speed in getting away from those punches. I will give this round to hatton.

Score: Paquiao 29 -29 Hatton

Round Four - going to the first minute of this round still hatton throwing a lot of punches and taking manny to the rope his usual tactics, manny will easily manage to get out of that and back to the center of the ring and will out box hatton by throwing accurate punches to the head of hitman. A close round but manny is more accurate in this round compare to hatton, so I will give it ti manny.


Score: Paquiao 39 -38 Hatton

Round five - as the round start you can see now the eagerness in the eyes of hatton, eagerness to land a big shot to manny. He will put pressure on manny by attacking the lower body of manny, manny will drawback a little bit then, he will throw his one two combination that will hit hatton follow by a series of body and head punches that will make hatton down to the canvass...but still hatton manage to goes up in the count of eight. As the referee resume the fight Pacquia pressure him to rope and throwing a lot of hard and devastating punches that hit him so badly and goes down unconcious. With exactly 1 minute and 10 seconds remaining in the round the referee signal that its over, hatton can't fight any more. Yes! our very own Manny knocking out the Manchester pride.

That's how I predicted this fight that Manny will going to knockout Hatton in the closing minute of the fifth round with a bunch of thunderous punches to the head that will make him unconcious.

BY: Ivan34

As I read earlier in one of the articles published by one of the boxing sites the 15 rounds.com, it was stated there that the fight between Bernabe Conception and the Mexican champion Steven Leuvano, for WBO featherweight championship has been postponed due to the injury of the champion. This postponed fight is part of the undercard of Paquiao-Hatton showdown on May 2, at MGM Grand, Las Vegas, Nevada.

Manager of Steven Leuvano told the ESPN.com that Steven Leuvano began to experience pain in his torso while training these past few days. Dunkin said, that Leuvano is a tough guy and trying to continue and working through it. But he couldn't continue because his injury is getting worst.

Top Rank will replace the bout on the televised portion of the card it is co-promoting with Golden Boy. It may turn to junior lightweight titleholder Humberto Soto (47-7-2, 30 KOs), who blew away Antonio Davis in the fourth round to retain his title in his first defense last Saturday night on Top Rank’s “Tijuana Thunder” pay-per-view undercard.

It's a sad news to Bernabe's camp that he's first fight for the world title is postponed. In his last fight in Araneta Coliseum, he really impoved a lot his power, style, patience, and the way he think on the ring. I'am disappointed that the fight is postponed, because on the way I look at him he is very ready to take the crown from Leuvano. If ever the fight with Leuvano will not resume, I hope that he will be given another title fight in different boxing organization.

After laboratory test proved that Antonio Margarito that illegal substances were placed on the hand wrap of Antonio Margarito before he fought and lost to Sugar Shane Mosley in Los Angeles.

Now one of the opponents of Antonio Margarito in his previous fights before he fought Mosley, and Top Rank Superstar Miguel Cotto has come out and said that one year punishment to Margarito and his trainer Javier Capetillo is not punishment fitting the crime. In that fight, also I watched on it that before Mosley punished the Tijuana Tornado, Mosley's trainer Naazim Richardson spotted the handwrap and blew the whistle.

The Cotto - Margarito fight that I also watched, Margarito was really beaten badly by Antonio Margarito and knockout Cotto in the late round of their fight in Las Vegas, is calling for the Panama Lewis Treatment, a lifetime ban in boxing - for the former world champion Antonio Margarito.

I will agree with Cotto to give Margarito a lifetime ban if the board prove that he was doing this in all of his fights or previous fights. But with Margarito's trainer Capetillo, I disagree to give him that much punishment becuase he's only one of the accesories on that mistake committed by Margarito.

Cotto has also a reason why he is complaining because he has a doubt that those illegal substances placed in the handwrap of Margarito might be also put in their last fight. Cotto last staement was he will going elsewhere after his contract will expire with the Top Rank at the end of 2009. And will do his own promotional company and will self manage his career.

In New York, Manny " The Pacman " Paquiao was voted as the 2008 fighter of the year by the Boxing Writers Association of America. After his three wins last year in different division, first by taking the WBC title of Juan Manuel Marquez, another title by defeating WBC champion David Diaz then the last was the impressive win over the legend Oscar De la Hoya in welterweight division.

Joe Calzaghe of England voted as the runner up, and also voted as manager of the year for guiding hs own career. This undefeated former super middle weight champion recently retired.

Also, Paquiao's trainer Coach Freddie Roach voted as the trainer of the year as he was one of the key factors in winning last year. The fight of the year was given to the matched of the superbantamweights Israel Vasquez and Rafael Marquez, which Israel Vazquez won that fight.

The Awards wil be presented at the annual BWWA dinner June 12 in New York.