Boxing: HATTON v GRAHAM FEUD: ROUND TWO! RICKY RUMBLE ERUPTS Hitman team rage at estranged trainer's mysterious stunt arrival at SAME hotel.Byline: BY DAVID ANDERSON David Anderson may refer to:
RICKY HATTON'S simmering feud with Billy Graham Noun 1. Billy Graham - United States evangelical preacher famous as a mass evangelist (born in 1918) Graham, William Franklin Graham could erupt again after his former trainer jetted into Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. . Graham arrived at McCarran International Airport “LAS” redirects here. For other uses, see LAS (disambiguation). McCarran International Airport (IATA: LAS, ICAO: KLAS, FAA LID: LAS) is the principal commercial airport serving Las Vegas and surrounding Clark County, Nevada. beside The Strip on Monday and brazenly checked into the Team Hatton hotel, the MGM MGM in full Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. U.S. corporation and film studio. It was formed when the film distributor Marcus Loew, who bought Metro Pictures in 1920, merged it with the Goldwyn production company in 1924 and with Louis B. Mayer Pictures in 1925. Grand, for fight week. Graham claims he doesn't want any trouble and plans to stay away from Hatton's fight with Paul Malignaggi in the MGM Grand Garden Arena MGM Grand Garden Arena is located in the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada, and is patterned after New York's Madison Square Garden. The arena has a seating capacity of 17,157 people and is located at 3799 Las Vegas Boulevard South. on Saturday. However, for the Hattons he is about as welcome as Russell Brand at Andrew Sachs' house - and the Hitman can't figure out why Graham has come. "Billy says he wants to come for the fight, but he's not actually coming to the fight," said the lightwelterweight king. "It's a strange one really, and you'd think he's come over because he wants to watch me fight. "But he just seems to have come over to come over. It is a strange one. "Would I have a pint with him if I bumped into him after the fight? I don't know. I'd rather not talk about it to be honest. It's not a distraction and it can't be." The Hatton camp are privately fuming at what they see as a stunt by Graham, and the tension will only increase because he has installed himself and his trademark pork-pie hat in the main bar of the MGM Grand lobby in full view of everyone. Hatton doesn't intend looking at him and will remain in his rented house in the suburbs, which has been his base for the past five weeks while he has been working with Graham's successor as trainer, Floyd Mayweather Senior. The pair, who had been close friends for 13 years, have not spoken since their bitter split in the summer and Graham has spent most of the time since at his house in Georgia, looking after his pet reptiles. He flew in from there and says he had to come to help him get some form of closure following the acrimonious fall-out. "This is a personal thing for me," said Graham, who has given up his gym in Manchester. "It's something I had to do and the alternative was worse. I trained the kid for years, so I do care. "I know there is a new team, but I have to face the fact I'm no longer in the team. I have to face it in order to overcome it and lay those ghosts to rest. "I'll stay away from the camp and that's not my thing any more. I won't be at ringside ring·side n. 1. The area or seats immediately outside an arena or ring, as at a prizefight. 2. A place providing a close view of a spectacle. or anywhere near the arena. Instead, I'll watch it on TV in a bar with a few friends." Hatton's clash with Malignaggi is his first in America since his knock-out by Floyd Mayweather Junior in the same arena - and he has appealed to his fans not to boo the US national anthem. He maintains that their jeering during the playing of the Star-Spangled Banner 11 months ago turned referee Joe Cortez against him and does not want to risk upsetting Kenny Bayless on Saturday. "I've got the best fans in the world, but please don't boo the national anthem this time," pleaded Hatton. "Certain people took exception, mentioning no names. "We're dealing with a very patriotic country over here. If anyone boos the national anthem at home, it's a football thing and we're used to it, but unfortunately they're not used to that sort of thing over here. "It didn't help me against Mayweather, although I can't say that's why I lost. "But I would appeal to the fans not to boo on Saturday." CAPTION(S): TALK TO THE HAND Former trainer Billy Graham has angered the Hatton camp after turning up in Vegas; MORE MGM DRAMA.. A YEAR AFTER THIS RING OF FIRE Malignaggi aims to put Hatton on the Vegas canvas again |
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