for some reason the fight reminded of the duran-hearns fight. Obviously duran and hatton are worlds apart but there was some kind of similarity there. Maybe it was just the KO? For me I think how duran got KO was the best but in terms of shock it was how hatton got done
Hearns-Duran. Duran was a great, GREAT fighter, who had an iron jaw. Hatton was a very good fighter, arguably a great light-welterweight, who had already been brutally KO'd. The case for Pacquiao is that he was the smaller guy, whereas Hearns was much bigger than Duran. Both were massive KO's though.
Depends what you mean as worse? Worse, as in more brutal and frightening? I'd actually go with Pacquiao-Hatton. As bad as Hearns-Duran was, at least Duran was able to somewhat stumble to his feet (with some helpers) within seconds. Hatton was basically motionless on the canvas, on his back. I don't know what his "helpers" were doing by moving him around, head in one of their hands and all.
Duran stumbled to his feet? No. His cornermen came and pulled him up before anyone could see him stay there lying on his stomach. Duran would have stayed there for a few minutes or so had they not come and gotten him.
Also Hearns/Duran was two greats fighting. That was shocking. I couldn't believe Hearns put that beating on Duran. No one ever had landed that clean on Duran.
He looked in better shape within seconds, or even a couple minutes, than Hatton did. But KOs like Jackson-Graham, Pettway-Brown, and Ruddock-Dokes are worse than either of them.
The only thing different about Hearns/Duran and Pacman/Hatton is that Duran actually landed a nice right hand on Hearns at the beginning of the 2nd round. But the Hearns knockout was more devastating than the Hatton one. Hearns put a 2 round beating on Duran. I never thought he would fight well again. But he surprised me. Duran took off 2 years and came back and resumed his career-winning another title.
Jackson-Graham. Man that fight was unbelievable. Jackson had the ability to hit guys clean who were totally relaxed. Graham,Norris,Drayton. He was unbelievable.
