It will be good to see how Hatton does in a live fight against the no 1 contender in his division. To see where he can plough on from here - perhaps Pac man. Now that Joe has more or less called it a day - on the world seen we are starting to look a bit thin on the ground. Roll on Froch and Haye of cause.
Rob, seriously, you do have a tendency to exaggerate don't you? With Hatton's track record of not butting and having susceptibility to cuts (added to the fact I didn't notice him throwing headbutts regularly with my own eyes) I just don't think that's true. Also Hatton did have a chance in that fight. Of course he did. Not a strong chance, quite small IMO before the fight, and the way events unfolded he had virtually none. If Cortez had allowed Hatton to unsettle Mayweather it may have panned out differently. He did the opposite. C'est la vie. Hatton needed a few factors to play into his hands to win, but they didn't. To say he had 'no chance' to win is silly. He had as much chance as anyone who's faced Mayweather, bar perhaps Oscar.
cant see how any of you fancy paulie to take this fight - ive seen paulie in his last 4 fights & gotta say his ****. never in the same league as hatton - & as for knoocking hatton out - that just laughable.
i still think we will se hatton vs witter. if hatton looses to mallignaggi, hatton vs witter is the only fight PPV worthy, and hatton will want big money still.
if hatton go's back to moving,creating angles,turning mallignaggi on the ropes i can see hatton breaking him in half with body shots,if he fights with his face,imho i can still seeing him winning by points but making it a **** fight lets see what mayweather snr can do with him,if anything. after watching mallignaggi last fight i thought he was ****in terrible as for comparing hatton to cotto,aint he just got stopped,and beat bad by a pretty decent guy,not by a unbeaten pound for pound best boxer in the world,yet a lot of you still think that cottos the best thing out there and wud beat hatton to a pulp:bbb
Mallifaggi sucks mate not be horrible, look every one goes on about how **** hatton was in his last fight but he won far more convincingly the paule. :good
Hatton never unsettled Mayweather anyway. He was getting his ass whooped on the inside and out. If Cortez let him do that **** he would have lost even more embarrassingly. Fancy holding yourself up as a great inside fighter and getting beat down by a defensive counterpuncher on the inside.
I think he did a little, but Floyd ADAPTED Once he realised that the best (both in terms of simplicity and how it would look) way to win was to OUTDIRTY Hatton he did. That said, rounds 7-10 were an absolute masterclass and weren't even close
That's not a great analysis IMO. Floyd nullified Hatton inside, that's on the rare occasion when Cortez allowed anything resembling inside work to happen. Floyd didn't 'whoop' Hatton inside, he simply took inside fighting out of the equation, especially early on, using his elbows and appealing to Cortez to split them. I'm of the opinion that he would have found it harder if Cortez hadn't assisted. Hatton would've eventually found some success in there. Floyd would still have won, at the end of the day the man is a virtuoso. But it would have made for a better, closer fight if Cortez hadn't ****ed it up. We'd have seen more of what Floyd has to offer too.