{"id":4522,"date":"2008-11-20T18:40:32","date_gmt":"2008-11-20T23:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.capperspicks.com\/blog\/?p=4522"},"modified":"2023-02-07T07:10:29","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T15:10:29","slug":"hatton-malignaggi-boxing-predictions-odds-201108","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/fight-club\/hatton-malignaggi-boxing-predictions-odds-201108\/","title":{"rendered":"HBO PayPerView Preview &#8211; Hatton vs. Malignaggi"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>BOXING: HATTON TO PUT ON A HURTING?<\/h2>\n<p>Britain\u2019s Ricky Hatton returns to the MGM Grand in Las Vegas on Saturday night, and he\u2019s got a major test on his hands with brash American Paul Malignaggi. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hatton\u2019s (44-1, 31 KO\u2019s)<\/strong> only loss in his professional career came against Floyd Mayweather Jr. last December in Vegas and \u2018The Hitman\u2019 would like to erase the bad memories with a win over the underrated Malignaggi (25-1, 5 KO\u2019s).<\/p>\n<p>The 30 year-old Hatton is a <strong>-280 favorite at Sportsbook.com<\/strong>, but the 27 year-old Malignaggi provides a lot of value at +220 for this light welterweight title fight.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Over\/Under in rounds is 11.5<\/strong> as the American possesses very little knockout power and Hatton only has one knockout in his last five fights.<\/p>\n<p>Hatton\u2019s last fight was a lackluster 12-round decision over Juan Lazcano in May. He has since switched over to a new trainer for this fight, Floyd Mayweather Sr, the father of the only man to beat him.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin: 1px; border: 1px solid #ffffff;\" title=\"Sportsbook.com\" src=\"http:\/\/affiliates.commissionaccount.com\/processing\/impressions.asp?btag=a_2744b_282\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" \/>Mayweather Sr. doesn\u2019t want Hatton to abandon his come-forward style but he wants him to move his head more when he comes in and set up his attacks better.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m going to be jumping all over Paulie but I&#8217;m going to be doing it in a manner where I&#8217;ll be setting up my attacks, jabbing as I go in, changing the angles, combinations to set up my body shots and my big punching\u201d Hatton said.<\/p>\n<p>Malignaggi has the big quickness and hand speed advantage in this fight and he\u2019ll make Hatton pay if he charges in at the wrong time, but the lack of a knockout punch to truly make Hatton pay in the biggest reason why Hatton is the solid favorite.<\/p>\n<p>Backers of Malignaggi will point towards his fight against the physical Miguel Cotto as a reason for optimism. Cotto won the 2006 fight by a unanimous decision, but it went all 12 rounds and it showed that Malignaggi was not afraid to mix it up and he could go the distance with a top-notch fighter.<\/p>\n<p>For Malignaggi, he\u2019s ready for the bright lights of Vegas and he\u2019s not intimidated by his higher profile opponent.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If he comes out trying to box me he&#8217;s going to look stupid,&#8221; he said. &#8220;His best bet is to come out and try to take it to me and not give me time to breathe. That&#8217;s his best bet. But whatever happens, I&#8217;m going to be ready for it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This fight means a lot to Hatton going forward as a win might mean a showdown with the Manny Pacquiao and Oscar De La Hoya winner on December 6th. That would be a very interesting fight and a giant payday for the British boxer.<\/p>\n<h2>Bet on the Saturday Night Fights \u2014 HBO PPV BOXING &#8211; AT THE WORLD\u2019S BIGGEST SPORTSBOOK &#8211; CLICK HERE!<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain\u2019s Ricky Hatton returns to the MGM Grand in Las Vegas on Saturday night, and he\u2019s got a major test on his hands with brash American Paul Malignaggi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1436],"tags":[2930,2713,3128,4419,4418,1931,2934,5051,5050,4415,5053,632,5052,911,5049,1028,5048,1178,66508],"class_list":["post-4522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fight-club","tag-bet-on-fights","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-odds","tag-boxing-picks","tag-boxing-predictions","tag-fight-picks","tag-fight-predictions","tag-hatton-odds","tag-hatton-vs-malignaggi","tag-hbo-fights","tag-hbo-pay-per-view","tag-lines","tag-malignaggi-odds","tag-odds","tag-paul-malignaggi","tag-predictions","tag-ricky-hatton","tag-sportsbookcom","tag-sportsbooks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4522"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106541,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4522\/revisions\/106541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}