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"Of course I want him to win but it's really not about winning or losing. I just want him out of there safe."

It's the same story for Bernice Mayweather, Floyd's grand-mother, the woman who brought him up in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She said: "He calls me his mother and I don't take sh** from him."

Speaking at the staged "Grand Arrival" at the MGM Hotel, where the fight will be held, she added:

"Like any mother, I'm nervous for my kid. But, hell, I'm confident. He's gonna whip ass. He always does."

"He keeps asking me to come live with him here in Vegas but I prefer to stay back in our home state, where it's cold in winter. I don't like the heat but my boy sure does. And you'll see that come fight night."

The two camps met for the ritual pre-fight press conference.

After Mayweather's trainer and uncle Roger gave a rambling speech, Hatton thanked him "for making the winter shorter".

Fan James Hindle, a 33-year-old sales engineer from Leeds, said: "And that's why we love him. There's no bollocks. He's a great bloke - hard as nails and funny as hell."

James booked late. By the time he sought a ticket, most were sold. The best plane deal he got was arriving in Las Vegas on December 2 and then having to stay on tuntil the 14th.

He said: "Cost me all-told around £500 to get here, a lump for the hotel and then, God knows what."

"But there's always McDonald's."

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