Did Hatton show much improvement

very small improvement

 

Small improvements. I could see he was trying to implement things Sr has been teaching him, they weren't perfect or completely natural but better than his dive in hook and hold approach we've seen recently.

Hatton would have won that fight with no adjustments, we'll get a real idea of how much he's improved in one of those fights.

 

The "old" Hatton would have beaten Paulie but, at the very least, he showed more composure and that the stamina "problem" that some people thought he might have may be overstated.

 

I'm not sure about the stamina. Hatton looked fresh, but let's face it the fight was fought at entirely his own pace, and he was only hit by pitter pat punches that take nothing out of you.

Lazcano looked much physically stronger in the clinches and hit pretty hard in comparison.

Maybe the new camp helped, I think we'll have a better idea in his next fight.

 

a little improvement, but malignaggi didnt throw no right hands and has no power and looked pretty awful . but he hit hatton with alot of jabs.

 

I think we can at least give Hatton a pass (for now) on the "horribly shot to bits", "worrying lack of punch resistance" and "declining stamina" thing, eh?

My only worry with Hatton is that if you take his last 4 four fights and ignore the last one and the fourth one then you can clearly see signs of a fighter falling to pieces.

 

Yes I think there was an improvement and he outjabed Pauli a lot of the time. There were a small few changes and perhaps the best you can hope for in just a 7 week training camp. It was hard to tell though as Pauli was only really throwing the jab, and clinging on to avoid any mid range stuff.

 

Who said he was shot to bits though? Only that there were worrying signs against Lazcano, and there were...lets not bury our heads in the sand. He was really tired when stamina is supposed to be one of his biggest attributes, and he was hurt pretty bad by a guy he might not have been previously, maybe because of stamina. He stumbled into the shots like a drunk man.

Why was this the case one fight before? I'm thinking Lazcano was stronger, and had enough meat on his shots to wear Hatton down unlike ***gi.

All I'm saying is stamina for 12 hard rounds that he might need against a Pac/Marquez is different to one where you dominate everything and get hit with powder puffs.

The signs are encouraging that running in the desert has helped his conditioning over punching the **** out of a cushion on Graham's chest. But I'm not certain yet.

 

That's usually a line from a Calzaghe-hater.

 

Hmm, yeah. But Calzaghe's really do take something out of you when he throws 1000 of them with both hands from all angles :yep

 

To be honest iv never understood the whole idea that Hatton has lost punch resistance stamina etc. The level of his competition went up and the quality of his peformances dropped. He`s victory over Paulie merely highlighted what he is capable of against a non puncher which was quite conclusive since his WBU days.

 

Never noticed any tiredness. What i did notice was a guy getting hit alot. Getting punched back will naturally take a lot away from his peformance. That for me was quite clear through the Lazcano bout.

 

rantings: when did that guy in your avatar last look good.

gotta go back years to find one. :yep

his fights with forrest and mayorga were easily as messy anything hatton has had. atsch

 

what a stupid question atsch

off course he did, on the lazcano showing he would've got beat