hatton v mayweather

[Bazzaboy]

Hatton looks weak at the Welterweight level and he should stick to Light Welter and fight Cotto next.

Cotto is at welter now (and looks twice the fighter he was) and would eat him. 

Hatton should definetly drop back down though, he is a natural light-welter and is a class apart in that division, which admittedly is weak at the minute.  All the "money" fights are at welter (Cotto, Williams, Mosley) but I don't think he would beat any of them, largely due to the size difference, and the lack of head movement.

Maybe Cotto would drop down to face Hatton?

Wishful thinking;)

Yeah Williams or Cotto next for PBF. Maybe have both of them fight him at the same time...

I don't think we will see Mayweather again although I hope I'm wrong.  Cotto would give him a very very hard night...dunno if he will fancy taking the risk.

[Bazzaboy]

Fair play to Mayweather a deserved winner and surely now has to be considered one of the all time greats.

As for Hatton he tried his best but was simply outclassed, I actually hope he retires. What more does he need to prove, surely he has made enough out of the game and no doubt has the potential to go into media work given his personality.

The Witter fight is too big to turn down.

Agreed.  Seems the obvious route for him to go

[taximan007]

Mayweather-different class

[matt674]

Mayweather-different class

agreed - didnt help that hatton was fighting against two opponents for most of the early rounds but at the end of the day i dont think it would have made much difference to the overall outcome, Mayweather was by far the better of the two - Hatton never really seemed to have his usual power to trouble him

[Karabiner]

I have always maintained that Hatton is a far tougher proposition at light-welter, rather than welter.

[bolt pp]

Mayweather, absolute class, inside and outside the ring.

Anyone who knows anything about the mechanics of boxing knows that Mayweather was just selling the fight and i wouldn't be surprised if hatton and mayweather were in close contact at times during the build up to look at how the advertising campaign was going.

Anyone in doubt of this only need to watch the press conference after where mayweather introduced hatton as a true champion and had genuine tears in his eyes.

8/13 on betfair was laughable about mayweather and i think although i, like many, wanted Hatton to do the business mayweathers so far in front of hatton i just couldn't envisage a way Hatton could negate the imperious boxing skills and speed of mayweather and found that the average sports fan in the build up to this, not having seen many mayweather fights, got caught up in the hatton hype and started tipping hatton up but nearly every proper boxing enthusiast i know looked at this like they would Arsenal at home to watford, very simple to read and ludicrous value at 8/13.

Mayweather definitely one of the top 10 boxers of all time.

As for Hatton i cant see a fight with de la hoya, the boxing public will look at the fight and say "whats the point"? well the point for Hatton and de la hoya is the money, but where would either go after and would that fight between boxer and his promoter be a credible platform from which the winner could get another shot at mayweather or one of the other welterweight big boys, Hatton cant perform at that weight and de la hoyas not looking for titles or glory anymore at his age, just a pay day, it would be two guys fighting eachother who couldnt live with mayweather and nothing at stake.

IMO Hatton has to fight witter, It would be a cracking fight to watch and would genuinely galvanise hattons ambition as opposed to a possible 12 round public sparring session against his promoter.

 

[lazaroonie]

this guy thanks the UK fans and they start booing, dispicable.

I used to go to quite a few boxing shows, until a few years ago, when I noticed more and more the crowd seemed to be made up of what seemed like football hooligans. Last night was a disgrace. Booing the anthem, booing mayweather, these people were complete morons. Were any of them there to watch the actual boxing, or just an opportunity to inflict their boorish drunken behaviour on everyone else.

[ifm]

this guy thanks the UK fans and they start booing, dispicable.

Were any of them there to watch the actual boxing

Considering the difficulty to get the tickets most of them had to be connected with boxing in some way or other.

[bolt pp]

Exactly wrong. There is no way Mayweather wins this comfortably.

 

[bolt pp]

There is also no way he stops Hatton easily.

 

[bolt pp]

sorry fellas. but all you who just say mayweather is the best fighter and going to destroy hatton know nothing about boxing.

 

[ACE2M]

one of the most consumate displays of boxing i've ever seen. Everything was perfect from mayweather.

Dropping lower so hatton couldn't avoid the jab on the way in (he took a shot almost every time he did), when hatton finally took risks to run round that jab mayweather stood up and delivered perfect punches, how ricky stayed up from that straight right is beyond me and that left hook was genius. The angle of his body to deny the body shots and every time ricky looked to step back to off load he got smashed and then FM got out of there which took away his greatest asset, i think i said earlier in this thread that when de la hoya had him on the ropes he never threw body shots and ricky would but he did the same but only because mayweather wouldn't let him. ricky had no plan b and was to reckless but i don't think he could have won whatever he did.

Mayweather is definately an all time great, fantastic boxer.

[ACE2M]

sorry fellas. but all you who just say mayweather is the best fighter and going to destroy hatton know nothing about boxing.

 

sad little man....

[Nem]

sorry fellas. but all you who just say mayweather is the best fighter and going to destroy hatton know nothing about boxing.

 

wow what a golden quote that is!

[bolt pp]

sorry fellas. but all you who just say mayweather is the best fighter and going to destroy hatton know nothing about boxing.

 

sad little man....

calm down, it's an adults forum, i'm winding you up, if you cant take a bit of stick go and play world of warcaraft or something.