Floyd Mayweather vs. Ricky Hatton
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| Date | December 8, 2007 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Title(s) on the line |
WBC welterweight title |
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| Tale of the tape | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Boxer |
 Floyd Mayweather Jr. |
 Ricky Hatton |
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| Nickname | Pretty Boy | Hitman | |
| Hometown | Las Vegas, Nevada, USA | Manchester, England | |
| Pre-fight record | 38-0-0 (24 KO) | 43-0-0 (31 KO) | |
| Recognition | The Ring welterweight champion WBC welterweight champion The Ring #1 Pound-4-Pound Fighter |
The Ring light welterweight champion |
WBC welterweight title
Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Ricky Hatton, billed as Undefeated, was a boxing superfight that took place on December 8, 2007, at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, between reigning WBC & The Ring welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. and reigning The Ring light welterweight champion Ricky Hatton.
The fight was for Mayweather's WBC & The Ring welterweight titles. Mayweather defeated Hatton by TKO in the tenth round.
The referee for the fight was Joe Cortez, with Burt Clements, Dave Moretti and Paul Smith as the three judges. Hatton weighed in at 145 lbs and Mayweather at 147 lbs.
In attendance were celebrities such as Denzel Washington, Diego Milito, Bruce Willis, Sylvester Stallone, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, Wesley Snipes, Will Ferell, Gwen Stefani and Jude Law, Jamie Hunt, David Lochery and footballer David Beckham. At the weigh in the crowd were whipped into a frenzy as Joe Calzaghe (who was there supporting Hatton) squared up to American legend Bernard Hopkins (who was there supporting Mayweather).
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