Hatton's 2 Biggest Mistakes...

I'm glad you posted this. I was trying to remember who Hatton dumped after he won title. He was managed just right also, and caught Tzyu at right time. Hatton might have had better career if he stayed with the people who got him to top.

 

Sr damn sure didn't help him much.

 

1. Hiring a crack head to coach him.
2. Believing that a slow brawler can beat a fast as lighting puncher.

 

1. Not being dedicated to the sport like an elite fighter should
2. Fighting Manny Pacquaio

 

1. Not being dedicated to the sport like an elite fighter should
2. Fighting Manny Pacquaio

 

Walking in without a defense.

 

Being so wreckless. he keeps his hands down like a cage fighter. He was trying to load his left hook but it was so wide and Pac saw it coming always and countered with the right hook. You could see it on the first knockdown and immediately when the first round ended Hatton threw a left hook after the bell rang and Pac ducked it with his back already to hatton and walking to his corner.

 

1. Thinking he was physically stronger than Pac.
2. Under-estimating what real speed feels like.

 

Instead of blaming Hatton for the loss, how bout we CREDIT Manny?

Ricky trained as hard for this fight as he ever has in his career, and he fought the same way he has his entire career. He was just blown away by a an all time great who had too much speed, and power for him. Simple as that.

 

1. Fighting Floyd
2. Fighting Manny

 

1. Getting out of bed on Saturday.
2. Showing up to the fight instead of plugging his hot fiance all day.

 

Nahh, I don't blame any of this on Mayweather Sr. If anything I think it was a smart move to bring in a different coach that might help him improve his technical flaws over Billy Graham who obviously wasn't teaching him any of that. Now I don't think Mayweather helped him any, but he also didn't hurt him either because he fought the exact same way he's always fought. I think that maybe you can blame all that more on Graham's bad teaching habits that stayed with Hatton, or Ricky's inability to learn, but the trainer is always an easy scapegoat for these kinds of failures and I'm sorry, I don't think he had all that much to do with the loss here. Hatton just isn't that good to begin with.

 

:thumbsup

 

:nod