Quote Originally Posted by killersheep
Quote Originally Posted by 7777
Some quality responses on here

The media is the media - THEY MAKE HEADLINES

Ricky nearly pulled out of fight, Hatton has arm injury etc etc etc

Some of you lot would do well to not be took in by the media spin

1. Hatton never had an arm injury, he had his arms straightened by physios which made him unable to spar for a few rounds. The media spun it another way, it WASN'T a story that came out of the Hatton camp.

2. Hatton DID have a Chest Infection and anybody close to Ricky would tell you that but guess what, listen to his pre-fight interviews, it is clear as day. He can't win, if he mentions it before the fight, he gets accused of making excuses before the fight, if it gets mentioned after the fight, he gets accused again

He can't win. Ray got asked a question regarding the latter rounds and he answered it. Guess what, the media made a F****** headline out of it!!

WHAT EXCUSE DOES HE OR HIS CAMP HAVE TO MAKE??

He lost a single round.

Floyd does it against Baldi and it's called The Sweet Science, Hatton does it and it's whinge city. Yes, he smothered his work for the last 4 rounds and it wasn't pretty but he did the job, won the round and avoided the KO.



I don't get the cross reference to PBF, where did that come from? Was he making excuses after beating Baldi?
Here go my Sadclicks up now, starting at 37 and going up to......................
No Sad-clicks from me, the reference was Floyd getting criticised for his performance against Baldi

Yet for me

Hatton-Urango was not much different, at least not for the first 8 rounds

Hit and don't get hit

Floyd and Hatton both knew their opponents were the bigger men and minimized the KO risk but avoiding getting hit. Floyd just smothers a bit more prettier than Hatton does

Hope that cleared it up