Hatton vs Pac was more competitive than you think...

...despite Ricky being knocked down in the first round and knocked out cold in the second.

Pac has tremendous speed, and often it takes a round or two to adjust to his ferocity and accuracy.

Hatton had some moments, albiet questionable moments, in the second round, but he made the mistake of relaxing after he heard the 10 second timer go off.

Hatton hit Pac with a good elbow, a cheap but effective move somewhere in the middle of the second round and was finding a little success with his roughouse tactics where he hit Pac up close and tied him up to negate his speed.

Pac is hard to hit, but he's not unhittable because he's a guy that goes into a fight trying to hurt you, and Hatton did land some hard punches, but often at the expense of his defense as well.

That's the problem with Pac, sometimes you have to take one to land one because of his speed, accuracy, and overall effective boxing ability.

However, just as the second round was coming to an end, Ricky thought he could relax a bit and made a huge mistake.

It's possible that from the third round on, this would have been a much more competitive fight with it increasingly falling out of Pac's favor and into Ricky's as his roughhouse tactics and strength advantage, along with disrupting Pac's offense would eventually take it's toll.

Still though, Pac is dangerous and has the ability to hurt you at any time during the fight and is definitely not a fighter you can relax with.

Not even Mayweather can get careless with Pac or it's lights out.

 

And Hatton is not a finished fighter. He looked as good as ever and is still a top fighter.

 

Watch it again. I thought it was a blowout too until I watched it again last night.

I saw things that I didn't see the first fight.

Pac isn't invulnerable, but he's incredibly dangerous and a fighter can't go in there and expect to be fully relaxed.

His tenacity can disrupt anyone's gameplan, including Mayweather's, although I think Mayweather is better suited to fight Pac than Hatton.

 

But he got hit with Pac's hardest punch and he got hit right after the 10 second timer went off, likely giving Hatton the false feeling that everything is okay and it's alright to relax for the last 10 seconds.

I mean, he was knocked out with 7 seconds left in the round, and it was just beggining to look like boxing match rather than a fight as Hatton was just starting to adjust to Pac's speed.

Would Hatton have won? I doubt it. I think Pac is the overall better fighter, but it would have certainly gone more than 2 rounds.

 

Hatton landed some good shots, especially that elbow. But many fighters take punishment from Pac in the early rounds.

Look at what happened to Marquez. No one expects him to be that fast. You can read about it all you want, but he comes out like a damn whirlwind and Hatton obviously wasn't ready for him, but he was beggining to make adjustements.

He got caught with a huge punch though.

 

Yeah, but what happened to Marquez in the first fight?

It takes a few rounds to adjust to Manny's speed.

 

Marquez was utterly and completely demolished the first round too. Most refs would have counted him out.