Tomorrow night at the Echo Arena, Liverpool there are 3 domestic level title fights. All of them should provide decent entertainment.

Smith (left) vs Dodson (right) should be good

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Ricky Hatton 45-2 (32) has had an excellent career. Despite many people saying how overrated he is over the years, it is a fact that only the 2 best pound for pound fighters in the world have beaten him. On his resume he has wins over Paulie Malignaggi, Juan Lazcano, Jose Luis Castillo, Juan Urango, Luis Collazo on top of his thrilling win over Kostya Tszyu.

Hatton looked very good against Malignaggi

No Hatton is not an all time great, in fact far from it. However he is a very good fighter. However due to his down to earth nature and the fact that throughout his career he has made time for every fan that has supported him he is a national icon in this country. Due to his cleverness and storytelling skill, work on the after dinner speaking circuit will ensure that Hatton never has to work in an office or factory for the rest of his life.

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There’s an old cliche in boxing, almost as old as the sport itself. It goes ‘a good big un always beats a good little un’. Makes sense. Time has proven on many occasions that there is only so far you can move up weight divisions before you simply lose to fighters who are perhaps less talented than you. Ask some of our genuine all-time greats like Sugar Ray Robinson, Henry Armstrong and Stanley Ketchel. They all became victims of that old adage.Unfortunately, for opponent Joshua Clottey at least, Manny Pacquiao 50-3-2 (38KO’s) has removed himself from the mould.

Nevertheless the fight remains a must see event, televised live in the States on HBO PPV/Sky in the UK, from the Cowboys Stadium in Texas on Saturday night.

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Good news for hardcore fight fans as HBO and Top Rank have agreed that the June 5th fight between Miguel Cotto and Yuri Foreman, that will be held at the new Yankees stadium, will not be a PPV event.

The announcement of the fight will take place on the 22nd of March in Tampa, Florida after which another will be held in April at the fight venue itself.

Cotto will be challenging for Foreman’s 154 lb title in front of possibly 30,000 fans and will be the first boxing event to be held at the new Yankees stadium.

Bob Arum of course promoted the final bout at the old Yankee Stadium across the street when Muhammad Ali fought Ken Norton on September 28, 1976.

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Manny Pacquiao (left) and Joshua Clottey (right)

The two main protagonists in the big fight at the 45,000 capacity Cowboys stadium today spoke to the media in regard to their big fight on Saturday night. Manny Pacquiao and Joshua Clottey  had a few comments to make about their bout for Pacquiao’s WBO welterweight belt.

Josh Clottey “I will go to his body a lot. I will follow him, I will hit him to the body. It doesn’t matter if he throws 1,000 punches, if I am blocking them. I don’t waste my punches. He throws a lot of punches, but he is the smaller guy. I throw fewer but they are going to connect , and that is going to do damage”

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