As he threw the jab that set up the left hand, then stepped in with the left as Hatton tried to follow the short jab. I didn't realize just how pretty this move was until I rewatched the HBO super slow mo replay. Check it out if you have the fight. I'm pretty sure I've never seen someone pull a counter by actually throwing a punch. I'm sure it's been done before, but to execute something this difficult so precisely while under pressure is just freaking awesome.
It's a basic 1st and 3rd attack. Just done to the highest level with immense speed and power. Hatton fell for it like an amateur tho'
:good I really just need to take a few days away from here. I'm going to sound like a full blown ******* in no time. I'm not picking him to beat PBF or anything silly, but damn, Manny has really become a complete fighter.
Well I guess the point is that the jab makes them stop in their tracks, and you use it to give you an opportunity to wind up and detonate. If Hatton had covered up, though, he could have stopped it.
Dude Hatton's not the only one who would fall for that. Manny has got blinding speed. You can't see those punches coming. And a counter punch is a counter punch; it's the punch you don't see that kills you.
in the first knockdown, pac threw a right hook then almost immediately ducked a puch coming from hatton. manny steward was impressed with this coordination
Right, but what he actually did was throw a purposely "weak" jab, and Hatton did exactly what almost any brawler/ pressure fighter would do, he tried to rush in over the top. But because Manny timed it perfectly, he was at the perfect range to throw his left, instead of being close and out of position where he "should" have been. Like Bully said, a simple idea but executed brilliantly.
It was a nice delivery from Pacman. He threw that punch nice. It was very much like Hearns/Duran. Both knockouts happened when Hearns and Pacman threw as hard a punch with leverage as they could.
That's true any FIGHTER would fall into it. But a BOXER like PBF???? The 1st and 3rd attack is as old as the hills. Hatton was talking about feining and head movement and after the first KD he panicked and never gave himself a chance. I feel real bad for him, he has to live with the fact that he ****ed up the two biggest fights of his life by over eagerness and naievity. Not saying he could have won them but he could have done a whole lot better.
The 1st and 3rd attack, or two phase attack where I come from can be very sucessfull against pressure fighters. Manny executed it as well as I have ever seen it done.
