If you want to assess a fighters "present" skill status you best check out his previous fight. Malignaggi was Hatton's last fight. So was that fight an impressive win for Hatton? Knowing the facts we can really see a telling story about how good he really was that night. After the loss with money may, I believe his last 2 fight wasn't at all that impressive. Most especially if you breakdown what really happened during that fight.
People failed to remember, Malignaggi right hand was always injured through the course of his career making it really brittle the more he fought, and as you can see during the fight his right hand had no power to hurt ricky. Watching that fight again, Malignaggi wasnt the old relentless style fighter that he was, but a left hand "one handed jabber fighter" the whole fight and rarely brought out his brittle right hand on the table. Making it clearly a suspected brittle right hand as stated by Emanual steward during the fight. He was a one handed fighter that night. Ricky should definitely stop Malignaggi in that circumstances. An "A" class fighter should definitely defeat a one handed fighter without a punchers chance of even flooring him. That said, Ricky fighting pacman is whole different story. His fighting a guy with power and speed in both hands unlike Malignaggi cotton right hand. What I'm trying to say to you guys is that you shouldn't be impressed with ricky's win over Malignaggi. His right hand rarely used during the fight making it a suspected broken right fist with no power. A one handed fighter that night is so readable by the likes of ricky. I don't think a two handed fighter with power in the likes of pacman is easy to read by hatton. Case in pt, Ricky didn't prove jAck **** fighting a 1 handed fighter while manny has stunned us with his brilliance in his last fight. That's where you can see who's a better fighter between the two. A handicap fighter fighting with 1 hand was Hatton's opponent that night, he was just their to boost hatton's confidence for super fights. But that said Hatton's last 2 fights weren't brilliant so go figure if his still good in your eyes