If Hatton Is A Blown Up Junior Welter, Mayweather Is A Blown Up Junior Lightweight!!

No **** Einstein

The only thing we learnt from both this and the Collazo fight is that Hatton is not suited to fighting at 147. His physical strength is one of his major attributes, and it's a non issue at the higher weight

 

What are you rambling on about, you complete and utter spastic

I gave Mayweather full credit for the win. He would win at 135, 140 or 147

The thread was ****ing pointless. Only a few cretins think the weight made any difference. If we are going to create threads based on what a tiny minority of idiots think, this place would be littered with shite. I was simply making the observation that Hatton does not have the style to scale the weights

Cheerio

 

Ricky Hatton should never be fighting above 140, ever. He had to against Mayweather, because it was an opportunity he couldn't afford to miss, and as you say Mayweather isn't a big guy. That said, he grows into the weight far better than Hatton, on fight night he looked bigger for my money

Hatton is a disaster waiting to happen at the higher weights. Even Billy Graham never wanted him to do it. It's just common sense, he's an inside fighter that likes to use his physical strength to bully his opponents. His boxing skills aren't great, and hence when he can't bully the bigger men he hasn't got a chance

 

he had time to grow into a welterweight body. that makes a difference

 

Any UK members listen to Talksport? Every caller after the fight was saying 'Hatton lost becasue he was at the wrong weight' - and the presenters were agreeing. Notice, they didn't think it was a factor, but the actual reason that Mayweather won. Even a lot of the boxing 'experts' spewed the same line.

 

Talksport is reknowned for its high proportion of complete dullards

The football call ins are cringeworthy. These people know nothing about boxing, nothing about sport as a whole, and nothing about life

They are just idiots that jumped on the Ricky Hatton bandwagon, and I would know, my dad was one of them

Definitely not representative of hardcore British fight fans

 

Right - but its does imo represent a good cross-section of fans generally.

Even the boxing 'experts' (commentators, 'writers' etc) went on and on about Hatton being "at the wrong weight" - the implication is clear.

edit: sorry, that was @ TFFP

 

I don't know about that

Remember the reaction straight after a fight is fuelled by emotion rather than boxing logic

I think most would say that Hatton is not at his peak @ 147, but it didn't cost him the fight. Certainly 2 of the pundits for Sky had Mayweather winning to begin with