Just taken this from the GF This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected STUNNING ANNOUNCEMENT FORTHCOMING Los Angeles, CA- When it is announced in the coming weeks, youll be as surprised as I was upon learning that Freddie Roach, everybodys 2008 trainer of the year, will train former world 140 lb. champ Ricky Hatton. Thats right! The man that trained Manny Pacquiao, who destroyed Hatton in two rounds a month ago for the world 140 lb. championship, he will now train the lad from Manchester, UK. :huh
Would actually be a good idea. However Hattons problem isn't skill. It always has been and always will be his technique.
Pointless (if true, I have my doubts). If he fights on its the fact that he's either shot or he's not shot that will be the deciding factor in how he does. Not another new trainer.
Emanuel Steward trained Oliver McCall to KO Lennox Lewis in 2 rounds then soon took over to build Lennox into the best it can be done But in this case - Hatton is just best off retiring
why ? i fully believe it. if hatton does continue then he needs a trainer...who better than freddie ? but which corner will freddie be in if khan v hatton did happen ??..and where would each train?...same trainers / gyms..dunno how that would work. .
Team Hatton wanting this wouldn't surprise me one bit. Hatton lost to Mayweather and looked bad against Lazcano, so Team Hatton sacked Graham (and announced that Graham was retiring, instead of announcing the truth that they had sacked him and then Graham retired), and then Hatton was obliterated in two by Pacquiao so once again it's the trainer that is at fault. :roll: Hatton is shot and should just retire. He can no longer get himself in the shape he used to be in, and when he gets in the ring he just doesn't think (as well as having a much worse punch resistance than he used to have). He thought he could just roll over Pacquiao because he was "too big" for Pacquiao and didn't do as he was told - and got knocked out for it. If he's not going to listen to Graham and he's not going to listen to Floyd Snr, you can bet he wouldn't listen to Roach. I would be surprised if Roach would train Hatton anyway. After the fight he was interviewed and was asked about the rumour of him training Hatton. Roach said he would have liked to have done so before the fight, but now he thinks he should just retire and said about how Roach was advised to retire but carried on for five more fights without a trainer and lost four of them and got Parkinson's disease because of it.
What a crock of shite - how do you know what Mayweather's instructions and game plan for Hatton was?? A few comments on 24/7? What was he supposed to be doing v Pac then, using his jab??
I'm pretty sure his instructions weren't to go out with his hands down by chest and only use left hooks and lead rights. He definitely didn't listen to what Graham was telling Hatton in the corner for the latter half of the Mayweather fight and the Lazcano fight and he definitely didn't listen to what Mayweather was telling Hatton in the corner after the first round against Pacquiao.
Ricky seriously needs to retire..... What fighter could he actually defeat thats going to enhance his reputation?? ANSWER-none i'm afraid.
Roach said himself that Hatton doesn't have the ability to adapt his style so why bother? Then again I heard that Roach told Nazim Richardson that Margarito's handwraps may be illegal in the build-up to the Mosley fight and now he is training Margo. Strange. :huh
With hindsight, maybe Hatton and Floyd Senior was always destined to end in tears. A fighter whose natural instinct is to have a tear up and who doesn't always follow instructions with a trainer who is his own biggest fan and would far rather wash his hands of any responsibility for a fighter's loss. Sounds like a recipe for disaster when you look at it like that.
Quite possibly true that, we've already seen that he can't be successful at welter, Pac is out of the question and the likes of Bradley, Holt, Torres, Kotelnik aren't any better than the types of fighter he's beaten already and aren't going to add much to his legacy (OK maybe if he beat them all but any one or two individually won't add much). Plus he runs a risk of getting beat by those types of guys if he's that past his best which may hurt his legacy in the long run.