Palakasan
Pacquiao-Hatton worthy of grand setting
LOS ANGELES ?The fight game and the film industry have been intertwined since the days of silent pictures and bare-knuckle bouts and the parallels just won?t go away.
Tinseltown and boxing have both warded off threats of technology and modernity to remain a part of the contemporary entertainment scene and have shown that the public never loses it penchant for the glitzy and the dramatic.
It was appropriate, then, that the scene-setting publicity tour for the best fight boxing has to offer just now should make a pit-stop in the surreal surrounds of Hollywood Boulevard.
Manny Pacquiao and Ricky Hatton are simple men of simple taste, but when they are thrown together in the ring at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on May 2, an explosive cocktail should result.
Michael Jordan delivered the blueprint for the modern, iconic athlete. He didn?t just transcend basketball, but American sport. Tiger Woods gets compared far more with Jordan than he does Jack Nicklaus. Basketball hasn?t been alone searching for the next Jordan. As it turns out, so is everything else that uses a scoreboard.
