Anyone else miss the hatton glory days?

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It very quickly became obvious that the Vegas cards were a stacked deck. How frustrating must that've been for Ricky..

Cortez that fvcker really ruined a good night.

 

Totally agree about cortez. Ruined the fight for me, the whole reason the fight was so interesting in the first place was because of the clash of the two styles. There's no point having the fight if your not going to allow one of them to fight his fight. Cortez was corrupt as **** on the night. Hatton was a rough fighter but it was pretty much in the rules of the game, he would fight out of clinches for example. people saying it didn't matter because floyd handled him on the inside after the 4th round, it did matter let them fight on the inside from the start, thats what we're here to see, not a fight that preferred one fighter. No ones saying allow hatton to get away with murder, but dont stop the guy using the style that got him there in the first place. In the end we all pretty much know floyd would have won regardless.

 

Mayweather still would have won the fight, no doubt in my mind... but Hatton was up against it with Cortez in there. Cortez really did make it much harder for Ricky.

Thing is... he lets Ricky and Castillo have a scrap, yet the next Hatton fight he refs against Mayweather, he doesn't let it go. Joke.

 

if Hatton wasnt boiling off 5 stone of flab who knows what might have happened?

world class promoting, top boxer, fat *******

 

Still one of the hardest trainers in the sport at the time, people gloss over the fact, when the time came he hit the scales within the weight for pretty much a whole career. I dont think you would have got much more out of hatton to be honest, even without boiling off the weight. It's a style suited to a young man. I still think hatton's skills go under-rated, he was a lot more skilled than he was credited for. You dont get to that level being a face first brawler. Maybe at elite level he became that, but thats why it's called elite afterall.

 

you dont think he would have been better without melting 5 stone a fat?

 

Don't think he's saying he wouldn't have been better if he kept in shape all year rounds - but more so that when a fight was announced, for 12 weeks he was basically a monk who ate, slept and breathed for the night of the fight and a guy who trained like a machine.

 

Miss Lennox the most.

 

Yeah fury's spot on with what i was meaning. I think it was over-analysed the weight he put on between fights. Ricky was pretty active when he was younger and his stamina and work-rate were up there with the best of them. Think it only started to take it's toll when he got nearer the end of his career. At that end of the day if ricky hadn't have put the weight on imo i think he would have still been there for the taking anytime after 30 with his style could have maybe got a couple of years more but still wouldn't have beaten mayweather or pacman.

The problem with ricky was the size of his arms, he was giving away a good bit of reach, so could only really fight the one way. Wasn't going to outbox good fighters on the back foot, he had to get in using his intellegent pressure as they called it. And ricky pretty much mastered it. They did spend a large part of training taking the weight off but they were doing the body belt and that to work on his offence whilst taking it off. Even if they spent more time on technique, i dont think ricky would have benefitted that much because their wasn't that much to teach him technically with his style of fighting. It's not like you could spend hours working on his jab for example, when he got to a certain level, a lot of guys with the longer reach would have still beaten him to the punch. Even working on moving his head more in training which caused him a lot of problems when he got to the higher level, i still think you would still get tagged at that level regardless of how long you worked on head movement in training, he fought quite a risky style where he would take a risk going for the punch and leave himself open, that didn't bother him at the lower level because he ended up overwhelming them until they stopped firing back because they were more concerned with what was coming their own way. The higher up he went, he didn't get away with it so much, he was always going to take shots coming in.

For me hatton and graham were a perfect match up thats the reason ricky got as far as he did, both were'nt elite but both were very good fighter/trainer all the same.