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Originally Posted by Saddo
i still think he and Billy are a good team mate what they have done has worked succesfully all through his career and to change stuff now would be mad IMO... there is a secont trainer there i think but the body belt sessions have become part of his ritual.
he got beat by the better guy last time out simple as that and there is no shame in losing to Mayweather.
Too late for change IMO  | You see here I have mixed feelings.
For a long time I've wondered about the natural talent : Trainer ratio that was involved in forging Hatton. In this instance I see Graham availing of Ricky's natural physicality and stamina in order to win fights, so I hasve to say that the wins are down to Ricky's gene's.
As for the change issue, now is the time he has to change. MAB elongated his career by boxing, now Hatton needs to.
Graham hasn't brought Hatton on any in 4 years  | is that not because the level he has been fighting is top 
look at Naz he was 7 when he started to train with Brendan Ingle they had a bond... then the split come and Naz went with one of the best trainers in the game Manny Stweard.
he tried to work on making Naz more conventional and it fucked up what made him great his unpredictabillity of where the shots where coming from and where he would be to hit etc.
sometimes teamwork find a jell and become succful because of it.... Hatton might have lernt the game in a whole different way without Billy and it might not have had half the success
hes said hes got 3 fights left and i just think its too late to start messing about whith what got him to the top in the first place. |
Well thats debatable.
From my pooint of view Graham has utilised the same strategy for everyone that was tailor made for Tszyu, he adapted slightly for Urango and that worked very well.
I'll be 100% honest here. If Graham approached me tomorrow and said that he would train me for free, I'd decline. Honestly.
Macklin left him because he prevented him from using whatever skill he has and I feel he's doing the same with Ricky as he's fallen in love with the marauding full on style.
Now whilst I agree a late change is not wise, I think it will be regretted that he didn't change at an earlier stage, to save himself from wear and tear.