Fact or Fiction: Mayweather Purposely Played Hatton's Game In His Win

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i dont know what his plan was but Roger was in the corner telling floyd to "stay in there with him you dont have to walk away from him you can beat him on the inside"

 

He was hurting Hatton there. He was inside throwing body shots the whole time. Floyd showed HATTON NO RESPECT. He stood on the outside with his hands damn near in his pocket and lead with any and every punch to the head and body. For you to say he didnt hurt Hatton on the inside is utterly ******ed. When he had hatton hurt he got close and threw short hooks and tore his body up the whole fight. Floyd got inside and made Hatton swing and miss a million shots which was also his strategy as Hatton even said that himself pre fight. He could not hurt hatton on the inside but that last left hook before Hatton went down was a short left hook with power. You guys are funny. I am sorry your post is a few steps below contradiction not just not making sense. How many times have you seen floyd in the inside making a guy swing and miss to get him tired. Like I said Floyd knew he could hurt him before the fight he just tested Hatton in the 8th and realized he was not ready to go yet and he came out with the jab in round 9 while hatton was chasing missing shots and looking for the lead right hand that he made him eat all fight. Floyd disected him like a surgeon. He broke him down, thats what everybody said post fight A la Roy Jones and Lennox Lewis.

 

I thought he meant that this was RJJ and LL analysis of the fight.

 

pretty much reg, he was trying to land that counter lefthook all night. I think he mayb did try to show Hatton, that he wasnt just gonna muscle him all night like he does his other opponents. And I think he was able 2 get away with it b/c he is just a better athlete. I think that frustrated Hatton a bit, and took Ricky out his game, and then it was all over. You get out your game against FLoyd. Floyd will make you pay, and low and behold he did

 

Floyd always 'pot shots' in the beginning of fights, the adjusts accordingly.

Example: In the Judah fight, he couldn't beat Judah that way, so he started moving forward and pressuring Judah, to break him down, and then tried to take him out.

In the Hatton fight he tried to do the same thing, but in the Hatton fight he didn't have to change his game plan. BUT, if Floyd sees his opponent starts to slow down, and Floyd is able to hurt his opponent, then he turns up the heat and tries to take them out.

If he has a VERY overmatched opponent like Gatti, then Floyd goes out there guns blazing, but this doesn't happen as much anymore. Floyd will try to just tag his opponents with hard shots (the right straight and left hook), if this is enough to break his opponents down, then he turns up the pressure and tries to take them out.

 

In regards to Hatton's style of throwing a punch then holding though... Floyd DID use this tactic to do his 'pot shotting' as people are calling it now (since thats what Steward called it during the fight!). When he had the chance to get off first he would land the right hand when Hatton was least expecting it, then tie him up. So in THAT sense he DID beat Hatton at THAT aspect of Hatton's game, and he DID plan to do so. Floyd did that from the BEGINNING of the fight so of course he planned it!

His other method of getting in hard shots was when Hatton tried to use head movement then rush in with a hook, Floyd checked him on the way in with his left hook then moved out of the way.

Thats all Floyd did until Hatton started to get hurt by Floyd's punches. At this point Floyd started stepping into his jabs to the body more, and throwing combinations to the body and then head. Very good stuff.

 

His gameplan revolved around elbowing and using his forearm on Hatton's face and neck all night.

 

floyd is not as one-dimensional as you. he can think outside of the box

 

I dont know how people say this fight was even close, Hatton only had 1 clear round, everything else was decisively by floyd or close for floyd.