{"id":892,"date":"2009-05-03T12:43:09","date_gmt":"2009-05-03T19:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=892"},"modified":"2009-05-03T12:45:25","modified_gmt":"2009-05-03T19:45:25","slug":"pacquiao-dominates-hatton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=892","title":{"rendered":"Pacquiao Dominates Hatton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\"><!--more--><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-893\" href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?attachment_id=893\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-893\" title=\"pacquiao\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/pacquiao-297x300.jpg\" alt=\"pacquiao\" width=\"297\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>By George Hernandez <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>In a fight that was amped up as one of the hardest fights in the pound for pound king Manny Pacquiao&#8217;s career, Pacquiao had one of the best performances ever knocking out Ricky Hatton in the second round Saturday night at the MGM Grand Garden in Las Vegas.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Hatton hit the canvas twice in the first round. The first knockdown was a right hook that connected on Hatton&#8217;s chin, the second came on a combination by Pacquiao with 45 seconds left in the first round.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Hatton was never able to get anything going against Pacquiao. Hatton tried to come in and over power the smaller Pacquiao but Pacquiao got away and would land a right hook.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>With 2:59 in the second round Pacquiao landed a one, two combination and the referee didn&#8217;t have to count as Hatton was out cold. Hatton stayed on the canvas five minutes before getting up. It was Pacquiao&#8217;s fastest knockout in seven years.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Pacquiao improves to 49-3-2 with 37 knockouts and wins Hatton&#8217;s Ring, and IBO Welterweight championships, while Hatton falls to 45-2. A showdown between the winner of Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Juan Manuel Marquez could be next for Pacquiao.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=892"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":897,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892\/revisions\/897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}