King J Gives HBO 24/7 Hatton vs. Pacquiao Episode 3 a Grade of B+

Episode 3 of the HBO 24/7 Hatton vs. Pacquiao series is by far the funniest. It starts off with vintage old school Vegas lounge music.

Then it quickly becomes a Kool-Aid commercial with a good 30 seconds close up wide angle shot of a 1980's Kool-Aid shaped pitcher stirring up cherry flavored Kool Aid to quench the thirst of trainer Mayweather and Hatton's entourage for a bbq being held at his home.

Hatton then makes remarks about Mayweather's style of clothing and calls it ridiculous. (This made me crack up for it seemed like he was about to compliment him)

Mayweather discredits Pacquiao's speed and states that all that can be nullified with proper timing.

We see Mayweather is a rather good artist for he has his own drawings and paintings of the famous KO of Sonny Liston by the hands of Ali as well as a painting of Elvis.

Hatton then states that boxing would indeed be dull if it were not for characters like his trainer, Mayweather.

We then cut to a very powerful scene of Pacquiao walking down the empty vintage chapel to kneel and pray. This scene looks very much like something out of The Godfather or the DaVinci Code.

Pacquiao, a devout Catholic, even explains that if God wants him to lose then he will lose. Roach then explains that he feels its not about the fighter who prays the most but the fighter who trains the most.

Roach then explains how he is not religious for when he was younger a nun pulled his hair and kicked him.

Pacquiao then once again floors a sparring partner with a single body shot and the opponent is paralyzed on the canvas and is crying and wincing in pain. Pacquiao goes over to help him get up but he just remains on the floor in pain.

Roach admits he is using these knockouts in training to be televised and to get into Hatton's head.

Hatton reassures us the fans that both him and Pacquiao do not tiptoe and there will be a knockout come May 2.

Floyd Mayweather Jr.'s trainer uncle Roger shows up and provides Hatton with one of his fighters to help spar and prepare.

Roger then states that Hatton should win and defeat the smaller Pacquiao and if he does not then he should give him all his boxing equipment so he can douse it with gasoline to light it on fire (I would love to see this happen hopefully Roger throws it on YouTube).

We then learn that Pacquiao's mother arrives and has never been to the United States and has never been to his son's fights until now. She then leaves Pacquiao to go on a shopping spree on Rodeo Drive.

Pacquiao flies up to San Francisco to throw the opening pitch in the San Francisco Giants baseball game.

It is Filipino-American Heritage Day, and his legions of fans are there to cheer him on. The announcer says to the crowd it's Manny Pacquiao the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world and the whole AT&T Park goes wild.

Personally, I think this is great that my favorite sport, boxing, is getting this type of mass exposure and it takes a humble, great, exciting fighter like Pacquiao to do that.

Everyone attending this baseball game receives a Manny Pacquiao bobble head. Ask yourself when was the last time you went to baseball game and received a boxer's bobble head? Has that ever even happened before?

The episode closes with both trainers dissing each other. Mayweather throws a flurry imitating Pacquiao and says anyone who throws punches like this is an amateur.

Roach fires back with he(Mayweather) says he's the best trainer in the world, but he's the only one who says that.

King J gives this episode 3 a grade of B+. It was entertaining and probably the funniest HBO 24/7 episode of all time.

PS: I will be coming up to Las Vegas on Wednesday night to cover this fight. Seeing that the final episode of HBO 24/7 Hatton vs. Pacquiao is on Friday May 1, there might be a chance that I may miss it since it is a Friday and I will be in Las Vegas and I am a good-looking, smooth, successful guy with game.

But you can trust that the final episode is usually the best for HBO usually really sells you on why you should buy this PPV in that final episode.