Pacquaio vs Hatton

Hatton also has much better footwork than Hoya

 

I would be amazed if somebody came up with a plausible explanation for Hatton.

 

I'd be amazed if anybody thought Oscar was a decent representation of a top 140/147 fighter last night

He was a shell

 

Hatton via half nelson.

 

manny looked great, no doubt about it, but dlh did nowt...

ricky would make life tough for manny, hit his arms, body, behind the head grapple with him, lean on him etc...

also everyone forgets manny has been stopped before and that was at super flyweight ffs...

anyone who says this fight would be totally one sided is a hater simple..

i agree pacs speed probably gives him an edge but its still only a 60/40 fight for me...

 

I had butterflies in my stomach on this fight....
fair nough pacman would swarm hatton an he's liable to bust up, but these two goin head to head with hatton havin the whole british public behind him, i know he'd still keep on comin...an that my friends is a dangerous man!!?
Ricky will get pointers from Barrera who put a sterling effort 2nd time round, an with mayweather in his corner...this would be a classic!!!?

 

Yeah it would be a classic beating for Hatton.

Manny Pacquiao can beat Hatton in any which way he chooses. If he wants to box Hatton's ass he can, like he did last night, and he'd win. If he wants to step in and meet Hatton, he can outfight him and then get out. Pacquiao has never ever got involved in inside skirmishes because he's too good on his feet and too difficult to pin down. Hatton's chance...eliminated.

You need to be a good counterpuncher to beat this guy, and you need to have good activity with it or you risk being outworked. The same kinda fighter that has a chance of beating Calzaghe has a chance to beat Pacquiao.

 

I'd be amazed if anyone bothered to waste their time trying to convince the usual Hatton haters (some of whom are so biased that they picked Paulie to KO Hatton FFS) that he could beat Pac. The same people who were so keen to write off Hattons chin, stamina and workrate on the back of one fight (that he won clearly).

 

Some being one person, right? I remember one damn person predicting that.

Hatton's chin, stamina and work-rate are still up for critique as far as I can see. They looked bad in one fight and good in the next, one where he was tested less physically. Let's see how they look against this level of opponent.

 

Remember when that guy (JonOli?) had to used to go around convincing people that this wasn't a mismatch in Hatton's favour?

Now all of a sudden it's supposedly a mismatch in Pac's favour?

Morons.

 

I can name you two of the top of my head. Betty and Rob P, Healy was also predicting a wide UD and calling people "ignorant" for picking Hatton.

Pretty much ALL the Hatton haters jumped on the Lascano performance as proof that Hatton was shot which he clearly isn't. Time will tell if he can get back to his 2005/06 form against top fighters but all the "horribly shot" and "china chin" nonsense that was getting bandied about on the back of one fight was just wish fullfillment from some people.

 

Rob was constantly saying that Paulie would stop Hatton, but he has done his fair share of trolling lately.....

I will give Betty the benefit of the doubt - he was most probably blinded by his hatred for Hatton, and couldn't make an objective prediction, never mind back it up.

TFFP is a pretty anti-Hatton poster, but to be fair picked the right man to win.

 

Thats my point, how could you pick the wrong man in that fight and claim to be objective? I'm not saying this out of hindsight but it really was a **** easy fight to call, I'd say people who picked Paulie were either anti-Hatton and/or had never seen Malinaggi fight and were just winging an opinion based on what they'd read on the GF.

 

I always felt it was an easy fight to call, and said so throughout.

They were basing their opinion on the Cotto fight, ignoring that fact that Cotto was dead on the scales, and that N'Dou had caused Paulie problems in the rematch by applying pressure.

 

I've never called Hatton shot. I rarely use that word, and if I do I'm careful about who I'm using it for and there is a difference between actually shot and past peak. Some things were questionable in that fight with Lazcano. When you get badly stung by a guy that is supposed to be an easy come back, and is not that highly regarded there is cause for concern. And yes, Hatton was very tired too, worse than I ever saw him.

To me its still up in the air. You can easily look at that last fight and say everythings fantastic again, and maybe it is. Maybe jogging with Cat Boots with lead attatched to the back of them up that big ass mountain helped him more than beating Graham's cushion. Who knows. What I do know is Malignaggi's punches don't take much out of you and Hatton had everything his own way. Unlike when he faced Tszyu, and it was a struggle, but he proved his chin and stamina.

Pacquiao would test him just the same, he sets a furious pace, he can punch and he's fighting at a high level. I think if he lasted the distance his chin and stamina would be proven once again.