Both fight were pac's first on each division, and the fact that both opponent were kings of those division.. So its very impressive indeed..
Fights are not fought on paper. If that's the case, no one should be blowing their wad on how impressive JMM looks against Pac. Fights are fought in the ****ing ring. Fighters still have to prove they can get the job done. And to the goddamn idiot who called Hatton a B fighter, he must've been one hell of a B fighter to have won Fighter of the Year.
I love it when Mayweather fans paint Hatton as an unblemished wrecking machine when he crossed paths with Mayweather, but a shot, weight-drained B-level fighter when he fought Pac . Are they forgetting about the beating he took at the hands of Collazo at 147 before Floyd even got hold of him? Surely if bad performances are an indication of a fighter being past his best, why don’t they remember that one?
I'd go for Pernell Whitaker beating Buddy McGirt and then his "draw" with Chavez, as the best prior to Cotto and Hatton by Manny. de la Hoya beating Gonzalez and then Whitaker, Jones beating Griffith and Hill maybe, and Mayweather beating de la Hoya and Hatton squeezed in there.
He beat Collazo though in a close fight that could could go either way, Collazo was good enough too Hatton was always going to decline quickly because he's an alcoholic with no self discipline.
ok so hatton gets a lucky decision against an ok fighter collazo fights urango and a old castillo then gets his ass WOOPD for 10 rounds by floyd, followed up with two poor performances one against lazcano and the other malignaggi, he had also changed trainer during this time probably not the best idea as hatton was hatton and would never be a changed fighter so late in his career, then hatton fights manny and they say its a great victory for manny PLEASE! take a look at the measurements for pac v hatton , hatton was the SMALLER MAN in almost every deparment exept perhaps the waist , he just blew up between fights on kebabs and stellas , and your telling me it was a top victory really ? Pacquiao had the longer reach bigger chest bigger biceps bigger neck bigger wrists....:bbb
so your saying mannys victory over hatton should be regarded well, ok then if thats so surely hatton should have steam rolled malignaggi, thing is he didnt hatton should of got rid of him much quicker tbh malignaggi could have probably carried on and seen the last bell