Manny Stewart says, "Diaz is doing a pretty good job defensively, but he can't do to much offensively because he's not fast enough yet. Until Pacquiao slows down it's going to (inaudible - but ive tried to guess!) be hard for him to do anything offensive" - or something along those lines. Although obvious, he couldn't have put it any better. Diaz survived for as long as he did because he was defensive, despite being an offensive fighter (and a body puncher like Hatton). WHY OH WHY did Hatton not do this? Chin down, gloves up for the first 5,6,7 rounds, let Pacman slow slightly (which he would have done) then try to work offensively. He was never going to win on points. He should have sucked it all up for the first half then gone to work second half - like we all expected him to do! Blueprint for beating pacman perhaps? Unless your floyd mayweather. Thoughts?
No discipine and probably nerves and thoughts of pbf got the better of him perhaps? But I agree he could have held out longer but don't know if he would have won
He never would have won in my opinion. I predicted a late round tko for pacquaio. Its very frustrating because i at least wanted hatton to land one good body shot to see what affect it had!
Well, it's like Diaz said, Sci-Fi Channel-style, "I could take his frakkin' power, but it was the motherfrakkin speed I couldn't frakking take. I mean... frak! You frakking watch the tape and you think, "Frak, he doesn't look all that frakking fast! What the frak are these frakkers frakking talking about?" but then you're in the frakking ring with the motherfrakker and... frak! The motherfrakker's motherfrakking faster than frak! What? Oh yeah, good fight, Manny! Now, what the frak was I talking about?"
i dunno did you see the 2nd knocked down, pacman punched through ricky's gloves and sent him on the canvas, and hatton is not a defensive boxer, diaz maybe was but hatton is a brawler
