No way Ricky is winning the fight...

Chris Williams:

I’ve gone over this fight every which way that I can, but in the end all I can see is Ricky Hatton (45-1, 32 KOs) getting knocked out by Manny Pacquiao (48-3-2, 36 KOs) on May 2nd at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada. I think that Hatton, 30, isn’t in the same class as Pacquiao and will end up taking a ferocious beating from the Filipino star when they meet up. I think all the years of ballooning up in weight is going to catch up to Hatton when he steps foot in the ring on two weeks from now against Pacquiao.

Hatton looks a lot older than he was just two years ago, and it’s scary to see how much Ricky has aged in only two years. That’s not a good thing, because Pacquiao is the kind of opponent that Hatton would need to be in his prime to beat. However, judging by how Hatton has looked in his last three fights to Floyd Mayweather Jr., Juan Lazcano and Paulie Malignaggi, he’s slipping as a fighter.

Floyd Mayweather Sr. may have been helpful to Hatton if he had selected him as his trainer 10 years ago, but not now. Hatton’s kidding himself if he thinks that Mayweather will help him against Pacquiao. If anything, I see Mayweather as retarding Hatton’s growth and actually making him a worse fighter. You can’t take a pressure fighter and turn them into a boxer

. That’s a waste of time and plain dumb.

It reminds me of the desperation that Oscar De La Hoya was showing as he was getting ready to fight Pacquiao, hiring Muhammad Ali’s old trainer, taking on weird diets and looking for answers in the wrong places. If Hatton wants to have any chance in this fight - and he probably only has a slight chance in the best of circumstances - then he needs to try and mug Pacquiao on the inside and turn it into a wrestling, fouling type war.

The problem here is that Hatton will probably waste time by trying to box with the much faster and superior Pacquiao and end up finding himself hopelessly behind in the scoring by the time Hatton realizes that he needs to try and revert to his old style of fighting.

Hatton will be much too slow for Pacquiao and carved up like a turkey as he struggles with his new style. It’s actually going to be kind of funny, because it’s so utterly dumb of him to even think that he can outbox Pacquiao. The beating that Mayweather Jr. gave Hatton will pale besides the one that Pacquiao is going to give him on May 2nd, believe me. Hatton has really nothing going for him in this fight at all that I can think of.

He’s the same age as Pacquiao, but physically, Hatton looks at least four to five years older than Pacquiao, perhaps due to Hatton’s hard living. The speed won’t be there for him, neither will the power or movement. The only thing I can think that Hatton will do better is wrestle, but he won’t get many chances to do that because Pacquiao will keep drilling him all night long with power shots.

In the end, I see this fight as lasting no longer than the 8th round with Hatton flat on his back on the canvas covered with blood and shaking his head from side to side in disappointment.

http://www.boxingnews24.com/2009/04/hatton-pacquiao-i-just-cant-see-ricky-winning/#more-7826

Another Pac Hatton related thread? There are already threads you could have added this crap to.

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Originally Posted by Kel

Another Pac Hatton related thread? There are already threads you could have added this crap to.

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:eek:

just what this site needs, another pacquiao hugger posting irrelevant threads that have no place on the main board....


please kindly do one!!!!




PS:Not to say i dont appreciate such a respected and well known boxing journo like "chris williams"...he has saved me a lot of money and time now i already know the outcome!

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Originally Posted by hattonthehammer

just what this site needs, another pacquiao hugger posting irrelevant threads that have no place on the main board....


please kindly do one!!!!




PS:Not to say i dont appreciate such a respected and well known boxing journo like "chris williams"...he has saved me a lot of money and time now i already know the outcome!

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Truth hurts buddy. ;)

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Originally Posted by Killa From Manila

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Originally Posted by hattonthehammer

just what this site needs, another pacquiao hugger posting irrelevant threads that have no place on the main board....


please kindly do one!!!!




PS:Not to say i dont appreciate such a respected and well known boxing journo like "chris williams"...he has saved me a lot of money and time now i already know the outcome!

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Truth hurts buddy. ;)

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enjoy being a prick, chances are you will be banned by Sunday

Hope that helped;)

Pacquiao is hardly a well enough rounded fighter to say there is no way a guy as good as Hatton won't beat him for sure. IMO only Mayweather is that good.

Shock Horror!!!

It's another piss poor nut hugging biased piece of shit journalism from the wank site that is Boxing News 24.... :rolleyes:

You know anyone can submit an article to that site, it doesn't have it's own journalists or anything like that. Just relys on whatever gets emailed in and publishes that!

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Originally Posted by hattonthehammer

just what this site needs, another pacquiao hugger posting irrelevant threads that have no place on the main board....


please kindly do one!!!!




PS:Not to say i dont appreciate such a respected and well known boxing journo like "chris williams"...he has saved me a lot of money and time now i already know the outcome!

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Truth hurts buddy. ;)

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enjoy being a prick, chances are you will be banned by Sunday

Hope that helped;)

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Lmfao! :rotflmao: A prick? For sharing an article against Hatton? :-\

Funny !!....how many times was this said about pac before he fought oscar.

Any journalist who says there's 'no way' Hatton can win this fight needs to find a new job. This is about as even a fight to call as there's been in the past year.

I am convinced Hatton will win and he will produce a performance similar as spectacular as the one against Tszyu. Hatton will not be denied. No way is Manny Pac winning.

All these threads about Pac being a god, invincible, no flaws whatsoever, etc. make me want to cheer for Hatton even harder in two more weeks. I am Mexican but I will probably be singing the Hatton song on fight night! :D

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Originally Posted by Chino

All these threads about Pac being a god, invincible, no flaws whatsoever, etc. make me want to cheer for Hatton even harder in two more weeks. I am Mexican but I will probably be singing the Hatton song on fight night! :D

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By all means, join 'em. :) At least that's what you can do for your beloved DLH after seeing him getting his butt kicked all over the ring by Pac. Trust me, you'll be doing him a favor by cheering his fighter. Oscar will difinitely appreciate it. I don't want you cheering for Pac anyways, coz you might be a bad luck.

That is a very poorly written "article". Nobody here is thinking for a single minute that Hatton is being remolded into a slickster, it's going to be the same old pressure but with more jabbing, combinations and and head movement. It's taking what was good from before, but refining it so that Hatton doesn't take too many unneccessary hits.

Hatton has always been an exceptional attacking fighter, but one who was becoming more and more predictable, and unfortunately it all unravelled as he got to the biggest fight of his career. It resulted in Hatton smothering himself and being unable to get off meaningful telling blows when he had Mayweather in a position he wanted. Hatton had to change after that. Mayweather was great but you can't help but feel that Hatton would have done better with a different approach.

Anyway, this is Manny Pac and I think Hatton is doing the right thing this time out. Training in the states for 5 weeks, running up the mountains at altitude, it's come to the point where Hatton knows what is neccessary for him to fight in the states. We aren't hearing about chest infections, or needing to lose lots of weight, he isn't developing cold sores. Hatton is seemingly right where he needs to be. And Hatton at his best is going to be a lot for Manny to handle.

Bring it on!!! :cool: