Manny Pacquiao vs. Ricky Hatton Betting Odds

by senadiptya Dasgupta on October 14, 2019

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Manny Pacquiao vs. Ricky Hatton Betting Odds

While a lot of the usa will be glued to their television sets throughout the late afternoon early evening to watch and wager on the 2009 Kentucky Derby Saturday, there's another important wagering event that takes place after that night: It is Manny Pacquiao vs. Ricky Hatton, both of whom have huge loyal followings back home (Pacquiao, the Philippines and Ricky Hatton, the United Kingdom). This is the struggle to win despite all the pros being all over Pacquiao of anyone. The oddsmakers at Sportingbet.com had Pacquiao as a -223 favorite. Hatton will pay out well at +180 chances (US$100 pays US$180). (please note that Sportingbet does not accept US players. Those residing in the US can wager at Super

Book) Here is what's at stake for Manny Pacquiao in this struggle (a la ESPN.com): If Pacquiao (48-3-2, 36 KOs), the betting favorite, dethrones England's Hatton (45-1, 32 KOs), he'll accomplish something no fighter in boxing history has ever done, which is to claim the lineal championship in a fourth division. Lineal, as in the man who beat the man, who overcome the man, who beat the guy, etc.. To put it differently, he will be considered the"real" champion in a fourth division, not just a mere titleholder, the way he was when he claimed that his junior featherweight belt and lightweight title. "Pacquiao goes down as one of the greats if he can accomplish a junior welterweight championship to go togetherwith his additional hardware," said boxing historian and occasional ESPN.com contributor Bert Sugar. "Reason being -- it's not only hard to leapfrog this many weight classes, but because you've equaled and handed greats like a Henry Armstrong, greats like Alexis Arguello. The way it has been done by him, we still don't know his true fighting weight. Even he's still the winner in so many weight classes. I make him out to be the Asian fighter of all time and conceivably among the greatest fighters of all time if he can carry off this. "Now, we have far more titles, but it still does not dim or in any way minimize what Manny Pacquiao has performed " Read more: https://www.macklens.com/2019/09/25/1983-ncaa-division-i-mens-basketball-tournament/

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