Ricky Hatton Dismantles Paulie Malignaggi

Paulie “Magic Man” Malignaggi started the bout by landing a couple of well-timed jabs to the face of Ricky “The Hitman” Hatton, but that was just about it for him. After the first round, Hatton practically bullied Malignaggi in the ring until the eleventh round when Malignaggi’s corner decided to throw in the towel.

Malignaggi was essentially with his left hand throughout the bout and refused to use his right hand. Hatton basically walked through the jabs of Malignaggi as he showed no respect for the left hand of his opponent. Hatton connected a lot of his power punches and in the later rounds; Malignaggi was in complete defense mode.

Twenty-eight seconds into the eleventh round, Malignaggi’s corner decided to throw in the towel because it was pretty obvious that Malignaggi had no chance of hurting Hatton with the use of only his left hand. Apparently, the “Magic Man” didn’t have a lot of tricks in his magic hat.

Ricky’s brother, Matthew Hatton also won a unanimous decision in an under card feature against Ben Tackie.

Ricky Hatton retained his IBO light welterweight title and improved to 45-1 (32 KOs) while Paulie Malignaggi went down to 25-2 (5 KOs).

(photo credit: philboxing.com/AP Jae C. Hong)

-fouledout

Rey “Boom-Boom” Bautista Suffers Second Defeat

Rey “Boom Boom” Bautista suffered his second career loss at the hands of Mexican fighter Heriberto Ruiz at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Bautista-Ruiz bout, featured as an under card fight in the Hatton-Malignaggi fight, ended by unanimous decision with the judges scoring the bout 77-73, 78-72, 80-70 all in favor of Ruiz.

Bautista was knocked down in the third round and also suffered a cut in the same round. Bautista seemed bothered by the bleeding for the rest of the match. The Filipino boxer didn’t show much urgency and desire to win the fight and eventually lost after eight rounds of boxing.

Bautista dropped to 26-2 (14 KOs) while Ruiz moved up to 40-7-2 (23 KOs).

-fouledout

Bobby Pacquiao Dominated in Ten Rounds

WBO Asia-Pacific lightweight champion Bobby “The Sniper” Pacquiao suffered yet another setback in his lackluster career when North American Boxing Association lightweight champion Robert “Red Hot” Frankel defeated him via unanimous decision on last November 20 at HP Pavillion, San Jose, CA.

Frankel took control of the fight early on as he connected big right hands. Even though he was losing on the score cards, Pacquiao did very little to get back into the fight. Though he managed to open a cut above Frankel’s right eye in the sixth round, Pacquiao ultimately lost the fight after the scheduled 10 rounds. All three judges scored the bout 98-91 in favor of Frankel.

Bobby, the little brother of WBC lightweight champ Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao, dropped to 29-15-3 while Frankel improved to 26-9-1.

(photo credit: philboxing.com)

-fouledout