Ricky Hatton on Loose Women and Floyd on MTV Cribs

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Do you honestly believe that? I would love it if you were right, but Hatton does not deal well with fast hands and he is going to be blitzed with lightening combos and then when he trys to land is going to be hitting thin air or arms and shoulders most of the night.

Hatton still leaves himself wide open with that badly judged lead left hook, he still lunges and he is facing the fastest and most gifted fighter of our generation and one who happens to be the best defensively too.

 

I want PBF to win BUT can see a Hatton victory. He could simply outwork and outmuscle Mayweather to win enough rounds to win the fight. If Hatton jumps on a Mayweather who starts slowly he may take the iniative, hurt Mayweather to the body and outwork Mayweather on the ropes.

I lean towards Mayweather winning though, I think he will outbox Hatton. The key to this fight is who gets off their shots first and if Hatton can close the gap.

 

I completely agree with pretty much all of that, however, if you are going to analyse the styles, look at Mayweather's biggest weaknesses. The Philly shell is not effective against 1) Pressure and 2) A high punch output. We saw in both the Castillo and De La Hoya fights that the way to beat Mayweather is to apply pressure and outland him. Obviously Hatton is going to be on the attack all night long, and the facts show he is going to outland Mayweather.

That's what I love about this fight. Both styles are the opponents biggest weakness. Mayweather has an advantage on Hatton and vice versa.

Mayweather will potshot Hatton all night long, but I honestly don't think it will be enough to win him the fight. Hatton will outland Mayweather for a close decision.

 

Lets hope you are right. But Castillo 1 was when PBF had just moved up and was not accustomed to the weight and was injured.
And DLH was a move up in weight again against a considerably bigger man. PBF has an insane reach advantage on Hatton too.

 

FluxStuff you know I rspect you as we have had several debates however I must say I do think there is an element of the fake in ODLH. However I also debate that Oscar has always faced the best as a blanket statement. I think his resume if closely examined you would see that for a long time in his career he was expertly managed by Top Rank putting him in with name fighters on the slide and past their best. Later on towards the end of his time at TopRank and when GoldenBoy started he started going into genuine 50/50 fights and not only did he start losing but his performances depreciated. That is not to say he is not a really good boxer punher he really is but he was never as good as the hype nor anywhere as bad as his detractors would have you believe. I think when all is said and done he is definitely a very very good fighter who was immensely popular, maybe not an all time great but definte Hall of Fame.

 

The phrases

"Take my picture"

and

"Money Mayweather"

really sum up Floyd as a humble and respectable champion

 

i'm convinced hatton gives a really good account of himself in this fight but floyd wins.has mayweather ever really been stressed out in any fight? probably not.the best we can do is the 1st castillo fight,and him looking a bit concerned in the 1st half of the de la hoya fight and maybe i'm imagining it but i thought i saw the odd sign against baldomir.the thing is for applying non stop pressure for every second of every minute of every round hatton is much superior to all of those.he will have a gameplan and billy graham shouldn't be underestimated in this, he will have studied hundreds of hours of tapes and know more about floyd than floyd knows himself.hatton is is also a better athlete and much quicker on his feet than those guys and i believe he'll rush in at angles and possibly low to get past the jab and basically try to bully floyd close in and fight dirty.his problem on the inside besides floyd being competent even in there is that floyds leaning back to his right while looking over his left shoulder will make it difficult for hatton to get his favourite left hook to the liver off.i think hatton can mess mayweather up enough to make life very uncomfotable but floyd wins by ud or even late knock out.this by the way has been a funny old thread with dunky at his mischevious best and well,what can i say about sucka?..rooting for hatton?..don't think i'm happy about that!

 

hatton aint gonna leave vegas with ****

 

Just a question, has Mayweather ever been shookup or rocked? We know Hatton has been floored and badly rocked.

 

yeah Corley rocked him, and Castillo had him in a little trouble before the bell saved PBF from further beating. I think it was the 4th inthe first fight.

 

Except millions and millions of dollars and the respect of most boxing fans after he puts on a valiant effort losing against the no1 p4p, and thats the worst case scenario.....

 

thanks Sucka:good , I'll go look it up on YouYube unless anyone on here's got a link?