Old PBF vs. New PBF p4p who is/was better?

[Taeth]

Whats trhe big deal about floyd's shoulder roll? He's that quick that he needn't use it. Plus who gives a fook about a shoulder roll, he doesn't throw a left hook as good as hatton. Why does no one talk about hattons left hook?

Shoulder roll helps set up counters...

[Taeth]

Maybe I'm a little xenophobic but I have a point don't I? No one has thrown a left hook to the body like hatton since roberto duran.

Lacy does it better IMO, and early Tyson did it as good as Hatton. Tommy Morrison was effective at it. Alot of people throw as well as Hatton, but not PBF though he is fast enough he can lead with a left hook which pretty much only he and Roy JOnes Jr. would be capable of in the past 10 years against top competition.

[OumaFan]

Really good point.
I think that Castillo fight is gonna haunt Floyd for the rest of his life because he looked so spectacular in virtually every other fight.
I dunno though, that fight was four years ago.
I think one lackluster performance is forgivable.
I think Floyd's learned a ton and improved a good deal since then.
Especially in a big big big name fight against Hatton, I believe Floyd'll bring the A game to end all A games.
If Floyd sits on the ropes for any period of time, Hatton will give him a work-over for sure.
But I bet (hope) Floyd respects Hatton's power too much to do that with Hatton unlike against guys like N'dou or Augustus.
12 rounds of Floyd moving around (and he's got the conditioning to do it, baby), Hatton's got no chance.
Hatton's really great at cutting guys off, but I dunno...
I keep getting drawn back to the huge difference in speed...
Sure he can catch guys like Tszyu who was virtually a stationary target for him... but to do that against Floyd?

I sure hope I'm way off and it turns out to be a close fight though.

Its not even the first Castillo fight for me, its the second, yes Floyd did better and won but he wasn't able to be Gatti like spectacular, he just outboxed him and won 8 rounds or so, don't get me wrong, I respect Castillo a lot so I give credit to anybody that can outbox him, but he wasn't the invincible man that he's made out to be.

To me, yes I do think Floyd's more offensive lately, but I think some of that is lesser opponents plus a lack of hand problems.

And I can't pick Hatton to win but I don't think it will be a Gatti like whitewashing, much less a Bruseles like beating. Hatton knows what he's doing in there.