Hatton is the second fastest fighter Mayweather has face at 140+

thewoo · Dec 6, 2007

I disagree with the original point of the thread. I think that Corley is faster than Hatton.

BigReg · Dec 6, 2007

China_hand_Joe said:

Judah is quite obviously faster for 6 rounds.

But anyway onto the point...Hatton is faster, significantly so that Oscar.

Sure Oscar can do those bad Calzaghe impersonational flurries. The ones where he hits the air a lot, without much pop and still gets scored rounds for it. But for one punch speed, Hatton is faster and can punch fast with more accuracy in comparison with Oscar.

As some of you may no, I struggled to give Oscar a single round against Floyd. And it goes without saying Hatton will do somewhat better.

Neither of these fighters are in a Calzaghe like lead (they are maybe 30% as good), despite what the American media will try and tell us. Corely landed punches on Floyd, so did other fairly useless fighters. Calzaghe has a superior defence to be honest, especially when you consider the functionality of his defence in that he can be aggressive and throwing thousands of punches at the same time.

So Hatton will hit him enough times. But Floyd will win like.

Floyd will land more bodyshots. He isn't a better body-puncher (though the jab is ok) than Hatton, but defends to the body far better.

Floyd will hurt Hatton with accuracy and handspeed a few times. But he lacks the warrior spirit, mentality of a Joe Calzaghe so might not follow up and go for the KO. We will see.

Hatton's only chance is a points win robbery ala Oscar - Floyd.

Hatton will be outlanded and land less clean shots. But Golden Boy influenced judges might incorrectly score Hatton rounds - citing going forwards as justification.

It is going to be depressing stuff to watch following on from the quality and skill in Calzaghe - Kessler just 2 months back.
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Great post, you're pretty much dead on accurate here.

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