With time past, does Hatton's loss to Pac still look as bad as it initially did?

C) Clottey's

Atleast the others (Hatton) went for it even if recklessly, but its easier to say after the Audley debacle

 

Everyone knew this was a danger, what got me was Ricky himself saying 'I know I need to stay behind the jab, be patient, and make my bodyshots count so we even things up by the later rounds'.

So joyous was I in hearing these words of wisdom I forgot he was a headstrong idiot and watched with mouth open as he jumped at Pacman with his chin as high as the Eiffel Tower.

As a footnote, the Pacman clone they'ev all had sparring said he sparked De La Hoya and Hatton out in sparring, saying it was obvious they were shot. He said Margarito was twice what they were in sparring and wouldn't budge. Fair play, he was right. Margarito was outclassed, but what a hard ****.

 

Marg did almost drop him with a bodyshot.

 

It's definitely between Cotto and Margarito for best losing performances and Hatton and Clottey for worst. I'll discount the corpse of Hoya.

Depends what you like, brainless aggression from Ricky or the timid display of Clottey who did infact take the least punishment of anyone because he has the best defence.

Cotto boxed well with Pacquiao in the early rounds and was more competetive in those rounds than Margarito was at any point. However, the fight decended into farce once Pacquiao got on top in the late middle rounds and Cotto was on his bike. Margarito was mostly the same througout the fight, tough tough man got battered and had a few good moments and hurt Pacquiao more than anyone else. I'd go Margarito for best losing effort just because he never conceded ground and landed a few good punches including the body shot which cut Pacquiao down for a while.

 

I'm not sure what Manny was doing, he seems to like to take a few punches on the ropes in each fight. He did it against Cotto too. Margarito hit him with the best punch of anybody since Marquez with that body shot, Manny was definitely coming up for air. He didn't win a round though. Cotto possibly sneaked a couple, close ones early.

But then Cotto started running and backpedalling and finally got stopped which kind of hurts him a little, since we're comparing losses here.

Ah well, all nit picking really they all got smashed to pieces except Clottey who didn't put it all on the line.

 

I think Ricky's lifestyle and all the times he'd taken a punch to land one caught up with him. His punch resistance was gone and, without a decent chin, he didn't know a way to fight Pacquiao which could possibly defeat him.

 

TFFP, if you discount the corpse of Oscar, it's almost the same for Hatton.

His resistance was minimal, as we'd seen against Lazcano.

He had lost his back room team and Mayweather was a shocking choice of trainer.

Pac as at his peak and Hatton miles past his.

Personally I don't put much store in that fight, but it's still a knock on Hatton for falling into the career traps we've seen a million times before.

 

Agreed, BUT hattons loss does look bad because he got flattened badly not broken down like all the rest

 

Losing to Pac no shame, losing the way he did was pretty bad and embarrassing though.

Kind of reminded me how Bruno's career finished. The most disappointing fight of his career was the last one.