Icey Mayweather-Hatton preview....

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  1. IceJohnScully

    IceJohnScully Active Member Full Member

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    Some of you may have seen this posted on a website or two... if not, here it is if you are interested...
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    Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 3:36 am Post subject: MAYWEATHER-HATTON PREDICTIONS....
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    I know a lot of people have been bringing up all the ways that Hatton can and will win this fight. Many have talked about his relentless pressure, his awesome body punching and his will to win to go along with his dogged determination as factors in why they will pick him to defeat Mayweather. And while I believe that Hatton is a warrior and a very determined individual who always comes to fight and is probably much more skilled than most give him credit for I also believe that Floyd is one of those guys, like a Ray Leonard, who has all the tools and gifts at his disposal. I have actually trained in the gym out in Las Vegas when he was also training and while I am sure Hatton works hard in the gym I would find it hard to believe that he trains any harder than Mayweather. I also think that Floyd, like Ali and Leonard before him, is a guy who has the image of a boxer and a personality first but like those two guys did countless times, i think when the going gets tough Floyd will respond like a champion. If Hatton thinks he is just going to bully Floyd with no resistance coming back at him then I think he will be terribly mistaken. I also think that the majority of people that count all the ways that Hatton will win this fight also happen to be people who do not personally like Floyd and their opinions are more wishful thinking than anything. As much as I think Floyd is very, very immature in his bragging about how much money he has, as much as I think his friend Leonard Ellerbee talks way too much trash for a guy who never fought before and doesn't fight, and as much as I think Floyd probably will not be remembered -for a variety of reasons- as a true and revered legend of the game so many years after his final fight like Leonard and Ali are now, I do think he is far and away the elite of today and everything in this equation points to his winning December 8 in very convincing performance.

    Putting it another way, the night before James Toney and Roy Jones fought out in Las Vegas back in 1994 Roy's lawyer asked me for my honest opinion and I told him this: "James Toney is a very good, maybe even a great, fighter but all the things that make him great will never come into play -stylistically- against a Roy Jones."

    Substitute the names Mayweather and Hatton and you have my same prognosis for December 8.
     
    IceJohnScully, Dec 7, 2007
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  2. Beebs

    Beebs Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Ali had Frazier, Leonard had Duran, and Joy Sinclair fights much more like Toney than Jones.
     
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  3. Danny Ocean

    Danny Ocean My nAmE IS MoNeY Full Member

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    judge fighters on ability not popularity and personality
     
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  4. kg0208

    kg0208 Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Well said.
     
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  5. pipe wrenched

    pipe wrenched ESB ELITE SQUAD Full Member

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    :yep
     
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  6. rendog67

    rendog67 The firestarter Full Member

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    good post but i hope you are wrong
     
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  7. pit

    pit Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Then you missed the point !:-(

    despite of floyd not being like you would be a fool to think this man is a paper champion ..
    He has beat the fighters who have the , big heart , the big ball, the big punch and the guts .. I think the point of his thread is , allot of hatton fans are so focused on how floyd acts out side the Ring that the forget the kind of fighter he is inside the ring which not short of brilliant , it hatton thats stepping up in comp not floyd.
     
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  8. IceJohnScully

    IceJohnScully Active Member Full Member

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    Yea, u definitely missed the point. Floyd will not just roll over and die no matter how rough or nasty Ricky gets. Floyd is a stylist who will SUCK IT UP AND FIGHT when he has to (like Ali and Ray did when called upon to do so)
     
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  9. Danny Ocean

    Danny Ocean My nAmE IS MoNeY Full Member

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    i like how hatton thinks mayweather will just quit if he puts a bit of pressure on him

    pbf has fought with broken hands torn rotator cuffs an still won
     
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  10. kg0208

    kg0208 Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Like most "defensive boxers" PBF's heart and chin are underrated. People feel that if you don't stand and fight, it's because you can't, not because you have made the choice to fight a more technical fight.
     
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  11. bumdujour

    bumdujour Well-Known Member Full Member

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    thats what i have always been saying. too much judgement on personality than on ability.

    mayorga and corrales were loved........even though corrales punched his pregnant wife and mayorga is a ****ing nutcase.

    why?? cause they were good fighters. floyd too is a good fighter.

    i dont want to be his friend. i just want to see him fight.
     
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  12. IceJohnScully

    IceJohnScully Active Member Full Member

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    Wow, reading my prediction at the start of this thread...id I all it "spot on" or what??? :)
     
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  13. IceJohnScully

    IceJohnScully Active Member Full Member

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    Wow, reading my prediction at the start of this thread...DID I CALL it "spot on" or what??? :smile:
     
    IceJohnScully, Dec 9, 2007
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  14. markbrooklyn

    markbrooklyn Boxing Addict Full Member

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    I called it spot on too.. I actually called TKO in the 10th go read my Prediction Thread i posted yesterday :good
     
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  15. pipe wrenched

    pipe wrenched ESB ELITE SQUAD Full Member

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    Good call Scully. I picked the 7th round for Floyd to end it, but close enough and still a very fun fight.
     
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