At Least Hatton Came to Fight!

Truth.

 

You've got to realize, PBF is an ultra-dimensional fighter, if Hatton had stayed in the corner, PBF would have been the aggressor.

 

There is no shame in losing a fighting battle to the current best fighter on the planet.

 

Hatton was decent but he was too overpumped and emotional whilst Floyd was cool and calcuated. He was in the fight until the point was taken away and then he became more reckless.

 

Thats all that matters Hatton showed a lot of heart out their n took a lot of hard rights! I was surprised he even got up from that hook to b honest.

 

All Ricky did was come foward and try to hold the whole night. You could count on one hand, all of the good punches he landed the entire night. If he even thought of doing something as stupid as keeping his distance from Floyd he would've gotten the Gatti treatment.

 

I'm not sure how much credit one should receive for coming forward when it's basically all one can do.

 

Credit to Hatton.. he gave it his all.. but at the same time hows Mayweather supposed to fight his fight when he's got the huggy bear in the ring with him..

 

Hatton tried, I'll give him that :yep

 

This criticism is undeserving, I feel, though. If you're a fighter without much pop, but you have quick feet and great timing, should you just not use them? Just...let that advantage go and slug it out?

 

You won't find a bigger Hatton fan than me but I have to agree with that. If Hatton had been able to land punches while inside he might of had a chance, but instead it was Mayweather who did the damage from inside.
But still, Hatton moved up to fight the p4p #1 and lost...not anything to hang his head about. Now he can go back to 140 and dominate that division and all will be well for him again.

 

As a Brit I'm a big Hatton fan. I wanted him to win and thought he could do it.

However, the fact is that he was simply outclassed. Sometimes you just have to hold you hand up and admit that he simply wern't good enough.

Mayweather from 8-10 was simply sensational.

 

I agree with this. Floyd is a bad matchup for Ricky. In my opinion, he needs 1 or 2 tuneup fights to rebuild his confidence, then he can go after the big dogs at 140

 

Undeniable truth.

There seems to be some idea that the whole fight was one sided and Hatton got taught a boxing lesson.

As you say, if the first three rounds were given to Hatton, you couldn't disagree.

The two or three rounds after that were debatable.

It was only in the last few rounds of the fight Mayweather became dominant.

If De La Hoya had chased Mayweather like that and exposed himself to get his own punches in, he'd have been 'taught a boxing lesson' too. But he fought conservatively, silently stalking and untilmately got counter punched by the superior boxer as anyone in boxing (adopting a similar strategy) would.

Hatton had two options.

A) Give a good account of himself, keep it tight, and ultimately lose on points (like D'L'Hoya).

OR

B) Go and fight the bruisers fight, try and get some heavy shots in, expose your chin but go for the KO.


Given that this was being screened across the world, the pressure not to make an ass of himself must have been huge. But he bravely gave it all he had, he lost to a superior boxing artist (which he invariably admits) and now his whole career is being re-written (on here at least) as someone unfit to challenge Mayweather.

Everyone who fights Mayweather will have the same dilemma as Hatton, KO fighters at least.

Let me tell you no-one will outbox Mayweather in the weights he's fought at at least. And with his defence, very few have the potential to deliver the KO.