I think this gauges Hatton's chin pretty well... If this is the case Pac should be able to drop Hatton.
Hatton's chin got tested pretty well against Kostya Tszyu, who hit ****ing hard. Hatton walked through lots of those vicious right-hand bombs that Tszyu threw, the same right hands that sent Zab Judah to another world. The shots he took against Mayweather, although he's not a massive puncher, would've put lesser fighters on their arse. Against Collazo exhaustion and weight played more of a role in the last round than chin. Magee wasn't a massive puncher, but he was a very sharp counter-puncher. He used Hatton's early momentum against him, and put him right on his arse for being so careless.
The only fighter he has knocked out above 130 was the weakest LW champion I have ever seen in 35 years of watching the sport and all of a sudden the Pinoy punches harder than a decent LWW and WW...how can you possibly judge this? Get real :-(
Hattons chin is so shaky he has been down a grand total of twice in his whole career...how many times has Pacman been down in his against smaller opposition?
smaller opposition? :huh and the last time pac went down was about 9 years ago. hatton was down and out as recent as three fights ago. so, what do you prefer, a fighter going down early in his career and not again doing so since then or one who hasn't been down until late into his career. i surely would prefer the former.
35 years eh... i guess we're about the same since i started following boxing around 1974. you conveniently left out the dlh fight @147. pac did hurt dlh in that fight enough to make him quit and score a TKO. so, @140 pac should be able to much more hurt boxers in this weight class. will he be able to KO them? certainly. diaz was a big lightweight being a former 140-lber.
There's nothing wrong with Hattons chin. Its not granite but neither is it shaky. He's a very agressive fighter who takes risks in order to land punches and sometimes that costs him. As for how he is against southpaws, I think he's vulnerable to a right hook from that stance.
Take my word for it mate, Kostya was far from explosive during that fight. I watched patiently, waiting for a bomb... he landed a feww good shots, but the strength behind them was far from Tszyu's best. No disrespect to Hatton... KT was far from full strength.. Hopefully, the Pac/Hatton fight will arrive soon.. The arguements are too many already.
I completely disregard the Oscar fight as he was actually fighting a corpse, hardly a decent measure of anything