Quote Originally Posted by Snakey View Post
Quote Originally Posted by Boxer4life View Post
you must be a pacqiou fan....i love pacman...but seriously...hatton was so out of it by then...he struggled with paulie for christ sake, never said he would win, i just def think itd be a war, dont get offended on pacqious behalf, pacqiou has a ton of credible fights on his resume....hattons not one of them
...your kidding right....I picked Hatton to beat Pac. Hatton had just put on a masterful boxing clinic against Paulie and hes suddenly way out of it. Lets be clear, Hattons shit tactics against Pac has more to do with his poor performance than Hatton being past it. He had a bad gameplan, thats why he lost. Pac has dropped Mosley, had Margarito out on his feet, wobbled Delahoya (weight drained none the less) and koed hatton..I think we can all agree Pac has decent power at 140 and 147 so chin has nothing to do with it. A good power puncher can crack anyones chin if they land enough and I do not believe Mayweather hurt hattons punch resistance that much.

Hatton got pissed off with Cortez...yet another bad gameplan, it has nothing to do with hattons physical prime.

JT I agree Mayweather systematically broke Hatton down BUT Hatton wasnt being rocked constantly and wasnt really in trouble until the final round.

Fact of the matter is Hatton started fighting decent opposition after he fought Tszyu and your always going to look a little less dominant when fighting people more on your own level. You cant say you expected hatton to perform like he did against tackie or a past it vince phillips against guys like Collazo and mayweather. Two different levels completely.

FACT (sorry Fenster im borrowing this, you can have it back in the morning ) - Hattons gameplan is the reason for his shit performance against Pac (he was supposed to jab and box him...he tried to bull rush him...how can anyone not see this as him going away from the gameplan )
Good thread for the Hatton bashers, but some googd points raised.

The circumstances around the Pac loss goes a bit deeper than his gameplan. The help he received, or lack of it, from Floyd Snr was a big factor in the way he felt physically going into the fight. Any gameplan went out the window the day before the fight when he felt drained and weak. The training programme Floyd snr set for him didnt agree with him and felt physically weak going into the fight.
Common knowledge Ricky never performed well against southpaw's, you would of thought a trainer in the calibre of Floyd snr would address this - Nope - not one aspect of the training camp focused on this, very strange in my book.
Ricky's dad wanted this fight called off when he saw the state of Ricky when he landed in Vegas a couple of days before the fight. Ricky knew he had 2-3 rnds in him for this fight and went balls out to bullrush him and take him out. He rushed in he got caught, he got Sparked, end of.

In answer to the Prime question, I would say between 2003 -2007, from Phillips till Floyd really, after that personel and outside of boxing issues took a hold of his lif. His inbetween fight binges finally caught up with him.