Mayweather vs Hatton Thoughts

floyd covered up and frustrated Hatton with a solid defense then began opening up later luring hitman in like a bull to a red cloth the floyd began dismantling him picking him apart and potshotting him breaking him down with Hattons own momentem!! It was a master class by Floyd with a beautiful conclusion.

it could be argued Ricky won a few rounds but I would only say that was because Floyd was toying with him going on the defensive and dodging to frustrate Hatton and mess with him mentally!!

 

:yep:good

 

The fight that I saw had Hatton landing at most, half a dozen significant shots the entire fight. His feet might have been fast, but his lunging and lack of defense did anything but frustrate Floyd. Yes, it might have taken a few rounds for Mayweather to adjust, but once he did, it was pure dominance. It was a big fight, it was more exciting than most Mayweather fights of the last few years, but I saw a very one-sided affair.

 

Manny and Hatton two totally different styles .. Hatton is a physical fighter that likes to maul on the inside, manny like to fight in and out , mauling and brawling on the inside is not his game at all. True both have fast feet , upper body movement for hatton is non-existent .. hatton closes the gap with his head straight up in the air which is why floyd was content to let hatton leap in with attacts, this way he'd catch hatton coming in then he rake his body once they where on the inside, basically letting hatton do all the work of getting himself KOed.

Manny will be looking to get in land shot and get out, then try catching floyd reaching for him once he steps out, which manny is really good at. Pac is really good at this technique when fighting inside fighter or punchers, because in their effort to close the gap once he gets and gets out, they run into his shots ..
With floyd pac will not get a fighter that will reach for him.. so his best chance is to get in , get out and rack up points, and hope to get floyd so behind on point that he will abandon defensive fighting style and reach for him which I seriously doubt floyd would do.

 

Good fight, marred by an egotistical referee who ****ed up the inside fighting.
(Still wouldnt have made a difference, But sucks Hatton was sort of handicapped)

That said, Great styles clash.
The event itself was huge, Boxing at its best.
(Too bad neither fighter will get the credit they deserve for it)

 

To a boxing novice it was competitive but to the astute boxing fan like me it was a one-sided clinic.:deal PBF was beating Hatton up on the inside and was beating the bully up in Hatton at his own game. Anytime there was separation PBF schooled Hatton hitting him with jabs to the body and beautiful straight right hands which had Hatton confused and Hatton while on the inside didn't work but rather was outworked by PBF. He had Hatton so wound up he didn't know if he was coming or going he baited Hatton into becoming more and more reckless as the fight progressed and caught him coming in wide and dropped him with a check hook, which he did earlier in the fight as well but it didn't drop Hatton. Hatton got a boxing lesson that night he was completely schooled on the art of inside fighting and the art of setting traps.:deal

 

Boxing novice? I dont appreciate that when its not true. I'm just saying Hatton was fighting his fight for the first 3 rounds or so, and did well, yeah he didn't land anything significant but was outworking PBF with a shitty ref. FLoyd adjusted and ko'd him but to say it was a one sided affair through the whole fight is unfair to hatton.

 

I'm just telling you like it was it wasn't competitive. It was hard on PBF because of all the holding and bullying PBF had to do on the inside and he had to exert himself more physically than he's accustomed to but as far as the boxing was concerned it was easy nights work. Hatton did nothing of note in that fight, but hold, wrestle, complain to the ref and not work. Tell me how many clean shots Hatton hit PBF with all night? It was easy work.

 

My first thought on this fight has always been that it happened about 2 years too late. There was a huge demand for this fight after Hatton beat tzyu and both guys were campaigning at 140. By the time these 2 finally got too each other some of the hype had died off. Hatton had looked like **** against Urango and Collazo and floyd had moved up to 147 giving hatton nuthuggers something to cry and make excuses about claiming that floyd was the bigger man.

As far as the fight itself I may be a little biased here because I hate hugfests and I was really starting to be annoyed with Hattons style at the time but I was glad cortez did not allow this to turn into an MMA match. The only thing that I think that he should have done differently was stop floyd from using his elbows.

The ringpost didn't have much to do with anything. Hatton was hurt before he hit it and even if he hadn't hit it he would have been KO'd. If anything the post saved him fro going through the ropes and landing outside the ring. also I don't see how anyone gave Hatton more than 1 round. He kept it interesting with his tactics but it was clear he was overmatched.

 

The occasion got to Hatton. His main problem was when getting floyd on the ropes he didnt give himself enough room to do any real damage.

No doubt he gave floyd big probs, but in the end Floyd was just too good. Same feeling i got against manny, Floyd will just be to good, 11rdtko

 

PBF offered to fight Hatton after he beat Zoo back in 2005 at 140 but it was Hatton who turned PBF down saying they weren't ready.:deal

 

Ricky didn't win more than 2 rounds

Do people here not score for effective aggression, ring generalship, defense, and clean and hard punching?

Ricky's aggression was ineffective for the most part, so that's why he didn't do any clean and hard punching. He had no defense. You could credit him a bit on ring generalship.

 

No.

Hatton lost because of the accumulation of blows he didn't see coming and couldn't stop not too mention the fact that he hardly landed anything at all throughout the fight despite what Steward's offputting commentary might have you believing.

 

I just watched this fight, 2 days ago.

First off, Cortez is a terrible referee and he shouldn't be allowed to stop the flow of fights the way he does. If I were a inside boxer vs and boxer, and they had Cortez as the ref, I wouldn't fight. He always does that ****.

Also, Hatton's corner didn't say much that I could see to Cortez. Didn't they tell him before the fight that they were going to fight on the inside???

I think that Floyd took advantage of Hatton's lack of head movement, and I think that Hatton showed that the peek a boo style could work if implemented correctly.

Floyd did what he had to do, but this fight more than any other one shows that Floyd doesn't have any legs(like he did vs Chico). Any fighter that moves their head, and doesn't try and box with Floyd, has a shot IMO. When they try and box, they will get embarrassed.

 

awesome event

loved the build up, was the fight that turned me from a casual fan into real boxing fan

will watch anything now