Hatton gets outclassed, out-sped and takes a lot of punishment en route to a stoppage loss. I just see this as one of those 'slugger beats the swarmer' styles dictums. And Mosley was a rare kind of high-class slugger, one with blinding hand speed, a great chin and a fantastic engine. I just don't see how Hatton wins this. He's not the puncher in this one, nor the quicker man, nor the more durable, nor the better defensive fighter (albeit Mosley was no genius in this area, either). His body attack might be the one area where he holds the cards as I've always seen Shane as a head hunter, aside from the Ceballos fight I should add where he punished the ribs a lot. Forrest had Mosley gasping for breath with some of the body hooks he pounded him with, and that would be one way to slow the quicker man down...But Forrest was a giant Welter, and Hatton himself has acknowledged that his strength and power didn't really translate across to 147 very well. You could get close to Mosley, sure, just as Hatton would need to - but if Oscar found the speed a problem and was getting out-landed by 2:1 in that first fight, then it's going to be 3:1 for Hatton. Mosley in about eight rounds.
Mosley a head hunter? Huh? Shane at lightweight was known as one of (if not the best) body puncher in sport. He definitely has Hatton beat in body punching. Granted, Shane became more of a head hunter as an old man, but young Mosley killed the body.
As you say, Xplosive, maybe I'm letting memories of the latter Welter and Light-Middle Shane cloud my judgement. I did mention the Ceballos fight as one exception which stood out in my mind, where his body punching was great....That was the one Lightweight performance of Mosley which really stands out as being particularly outstanding to me, but it's been a while since I've watched any 135 lb Mosley - maybe I should refresh my memory of him there. It seems we agree he was more of a head hunter in the second half of his career, hence my comment. Anyway, that was really a side issue. I don't see many reassuring factors for Hatton here.
Yeah, you're right. It would be kinda irrelevant. Shane could head hunt in this matchup and still easily land on Hatton.
Bad match for Ricky. Mosely has got speed, range and power. Hatton can't fight him from the outside and gets punished trying to find a way inside. Ricky gets busted up and stopped by round 9.
Shane mosley knocked another pro fighter out with a jab. Hatton got rocked by paulie malignaggi. I think the Hatton that fought kosta tzu could probably take a punch better than that version but I doubt his chin got that bad overnight. Shane could match him for speed, had a larger arsenal of tools, was about as good if not better of a body puncher, hit harder, had more fluid combos, but I think the biggest deciding factor is that Shane had a much much better chin. I could see this looking somewhat like Patterson vs liston but lasting a few rounds longer, mostly because I dont think Hatton would come out as aggressive as patterson did.
He was “ THE “ best bodypuncher in the sport....one of the best I’ve seen ....Tyson , Pedroza, Mosley ,
I get the impression that you don’t think too highly of swarmers/ pressure fighters in general...would I be correct in this assumption?
