Hatton just isn't boxing!!!

****ing A+.

A big part of boxing is being able to figure out your opponent's style, neutralise it and shut him down. If you cant do that , Then your not much of a boxer:thumbsup

I dont think there is anything wrong with Hatton's boxing style at all. Especially during this fight.:hey

Dont hate tha playa...... Hate the game. If you dont like hattons style.......Too bad. It works, and works well:deal

 

Well that way of fighting hasnt failed him yet.

 

Hattons style may not suit everyone but its got him very far and he also has been in some terrific scraps over the years because of it plus the ability to end a fight like he did against castillo is great, no one can take that away from him.

He may hug and fight on the inside but at least he dosnt have to resort to trash talking and running or delivering disgusting low blows to get his wins like many rated fighters.

 

As long as Hatton keeps Nady out of his fights, he'll do well. I think Cortez would have started seriously warning about holding if the fight had continued. Nady would start warning immediately, and WOULD start taking points for excessive holding.

That's why Roy Jones insisted on Nady when he fought Ruiz. He knew Nady would cut the holding and wrestling out so he could use his quickness. Castillo would have lost this fight regardless... hell I think Castillo in his prime would have lost this fight, it just would have been longer and more exciting.

 

Hatton is awesome. I love his upstairs downstairs style of fighting. It's awesome.

 

did you see anything illegal in Hatton's style? Anything that the referee should have taken a stance against? Was Ricky's style all above board?:think

 

ill watch his fights as long as its a big name guy he is fighting.but i hate his style but id like to see he who can break it and how.

 

http://youtube.com/watch?v=aLplTGZjMs0
Both beautiful and brutal.

 

I heard the HBO commentators complain about the point deduction and how they didnt hear any warning's for the low blows. :huh

I think they may need better audio equipment. I clearly saw and heard Cortez warn Castillo twice before deducting a point for low blows:|

I think two warning's before taking away point's is more than fair:bart

 

IMO he fought a cleaner fight than Cotto did vs Judah. I have seen dirtier fighters in recent fights, Edison Miranda with his headbutts. Besides it's not like the cornerstone of Hatton's style is based on fouls. It's not like Lewis grabbing onto the back of Michael Grant's head and force feeding him uppercuts.

 

I only saw the one, and it was while they were clinched up. He didn't seperate them and make a clear warning that I saw, but I might have missed it. I think the issue is only whether Castillo was aware he had been warned. He didn't seemed too shocked by it, so I'm assumed Castillo was aware of the warning. From the camera angle I saw, the point deduction seemed to be a blow that wasn't a blatant low blow.

I rewinded it a few times, and maybe it was just a bad angle, but I didn't see a blatant deliberate low blow. Either way, I don't think it mattered. Castillo gave his best stuff in round three, and I still think he lost it. I think he realized that he wasn't going to win that thing by the time the 4th round opened.

 

Three years ago a thread about Hatton would have been full of slating with the most frequent words used 'limited' and 'bum'.
Now not many say he's a bum but say he's not boxing.
Well, this is a huge achievement form Ricky Hatton! A real compliment.

The Floyd's style vs Hatton's style is a great example for extremities. If any of the two took over quarter of the other's virtues in the ring it would definitely result one of the three most exciting fighter of boxing history.

 

I've watched round 4 again and became sad...it reminded me more of rugby practice for angry beginners or of a schoolboy scuffle than boxing. As a fan o Ricky, I was disappointed...because, looking closely, Ricky played his part in making it what it was...:-(

 

If he fouled him, the ref should have warned him and taken points off. That wasn't my point. Sure, Ricky is amazing and he landed some amazing bodyshots. But I didn't like what I saw...this has nothing to do with it being or not a "tickling contest"...my point was that it wasn't what I consider boxing (what do I know, anyway??)...it looked like a mix between rugby, greco-roman wrestling and a schoolyard scuffle...I did not mind the aggressiveness, or the fact that Ricky "went for him"...

 

Both fighters like to infight so clinching was to be expected and there was less clinching in Hatton vs Castillo than in Rumble in the Jungle although you'd be hard pressed to hear otherwise. Ali was constantly grabbing the back of Foreman's neck. I'm not sure if Castillo was as depleted as what the commentary crew was saying or Hatton just wasn't allowing Castillo to fight the fight Castillo needed to fight. At any rate, he beat an opponent many were chosing to defeat him.