Damaged goods or not, no jWW would survive that brutal KO punch. The Hatton from the Tszyu fight might not have been dropped twice in the 1st round, but given the angles of Pac's bombs and how open Hatton was to them, I'd still say Pac would eventually land one that Hatton just doesn't see coming and he would still get dropped.
the same pac of today would still catch him before hatton could come in. hatton would still be flattened
Hi Dan Good to finally hear an alternate view. There's no way in hell Manny would KO That Ricky early Manny would take a sustained beating - who knows if he would be able to handle it the way Kostya was able to But i also think Manny would find Ricky and avoid clinches a lot more effectively that Kostya. If Ricky couldnt get in close, he'd be in Massive trouble .... but then to get into Kostya Ricky basically marched right in there, often getting hammered on the way in - it just didnt seem to phase him at all - so Manny might not even be able to use his great speed to stay away
I agree useless thread . When Hatton fought Tszyu Pac was in his mid twenties mixing it up as a Featherweight and nobody then ever could of predicted that he would be challenging the top 140 & 147 lb er's in the world , as Morales and Marquez shown he was beatable back then .
Same result but Ricky would have lasted a little bit longer. Pacquaio's hand speed, timing and combination punching are so far superior to anything Hatton has ever displayed that he simply cannot frequently get inside to smother him without wearing a ton of leather. The ref would also play a big part, if it was a ref like the KT fight Ricky would be able to maul a bit more effectively and prolong the stoppage, but he would still struggle to get on the inside anyway and eventually fall. A no nonsense ref and the fight would look much like the fight that happened in 2009, with Hatton taking the punches a little better and working off the clinch slightly better. Hatton is simply too limited offensively to ever beat Manny, not to mention his defense.
i get your point sir, but don't you think that the ref would be a difference too? u know what i mean, of course a free-for-all ref on hatton's side would be a factor eh?
Tszyu would have been Hatton anywhere but the UK and Pac would have beaten Hatton too back then, 09 Pac I mean.
I don't recall the ref really favoring either fighter. I'll have to watch the fight again I know Hatton bullied KT around, but that's his style nothing wrong with that and in the first round Hatton hit KT behind the head, but KT hit hit Hatton with two or three low blows. Hatton came back and hit him with a low blow and I think they both had there share of holding and hitting. I'm not exactly sure, but I will have to rewatch the fight again because I might have missed a few things.
Except the uppercut to the belly that dropped him that was called a low blow. Too bad Kostya wasn't allowed to rabbit punch, elbow or throw the biggest haymaker to the balls in title fight history.