Hatton v Mayweather
Date: Sunday, 9 December
Starts from: 0100 GMT
Location: Las Vegas
Listen: BBC Radio 5live Updates: BBC Sport website and mobile "Now, I must say, you've got to dig in your pockets and give me $50, because that was one hell of a speech, one of the great ones! If you paid me $10,000 to repeat it, I'd be $10,000 poorer because I can't remember what I just said..." So ended my chat with Bernard Hopkins, former middleweight king, American boxing legend and one of the most charismatic men I've met in sport. Continue reading to find out what Hopkins had to say about this weekend's clash between Ricky Hatton and Floyd Mayweather - it's almost 100% verbatim, and it's absolute gold! (A little tip: Hopkins has a similar delivery to Hollywood actor Samuel L Jackson, so try using the Pulp Fiction star's voice to get the most out of this piece.) "I see something in Hatton, I think he's the focused fighter out of the two. "I saw something at the press conference without physical punching, in their body language and demeanour, that gives me a reason to believe that Ricky Hatton is more up for this fight and the challenge than Floyd.
Date: Sunday, 9 December
Starts from: 0100 GMT
Location: Las Vegas
Listen: BBC Radio 5live Updates: BBC Sport website and mobile "Now, I must say, you've got to dig in your pockets and give me $50, because that was one hell of a speech, one of the great ones! If you paid me $10,000 to repeat it, I'd be $10,000 poorer because I can't remember what I just said..." So ended my chat with Bernard Hopkins, former middleweight king, American boxing legend and one of the most charismatic men I've met in sport. Continue reading to find out what Hopkins had to say about this weekend's clash between Ricky Hatton and Floyd Mayweather - it's almost 100% verbatim, and it's absolute gold! (A little tip: Hopkins has a similar delivery to Hollywood actor Samuel L Jackson, so try using the Pulp Fiction star's voice to get the most out of this piece.) "I see something in Hatton, I think he's the focused fighter out of the two. "I saw something at the press conference without physical punching, in their body language and demeanour, that gives me a reason to believe that Ricky Hatton is more up for this fight and the challenge than Floyd.
"Floyd has made things look so easy over the last three or four fights, which isn't his fault. But I don't believe he thinks Ricky Hatton has what Oscar de la Hoya had or Zab Judah had. "But what Ricky Hatton has that none of those fighters had is constant energy, punching and pressure - and he's got good whiskers. "Ricky is not just a slugger, when a guy is putting pressure on you and he's willing to take four or five punches to give one or two. "That's not Ricky. Ricky is willing to be that slugger, but to throw punches in bunches, and that's rare in boxing today. "Henry Armstrong [the only man to hold world titles at three different weights at the same time] fought that way, Wayne McCullough [Belfast's former bantamweight world champion] fought that way. "They never backed up and that's a dangerous guy because you can't keep him off you. "[Former three-weight world champion] James Toney was famous as a middleweight for rolling the right shoulder, hiding the right hand and taking your head off. "It works great against one, two, three punch guys, but Ricky is throwing non-stop punches, and it's hard to come back.
Source: BBC Sport
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