Quote Originally Posted by AdamGB
After watching the the Judah fight I honestly don't think that Floyd could cope with Ricky Hatton... hatton could walk through just about anything Floyd can through and unlike Zab Judah won't punch away at those giant gloves if he had Floyd hurt... :P
1. You can't deduce anything about Floyd/Hatton from watching Floyd/Judah. Hatton and Judah fight NOTHING LIKE EACH OTHER. There are tons of PBF opponents who fight way closer to Hatton's style than does Judah. (Castillo, for instance.) This is like people watching Winky/Soliman, saying that Soliman gave Winky trouble (he didn't), and then going on to say, "well, therefore, Taylor's gotta be favored against Winky." A fighter's performance against one fighter just will not predict his performance against a fighter with exactly the opposite style.

2. Don't forget that Floyd hurt his hand in like R2 against Judah. If his hand is good, the guy can hit--very underrated on that count. See, e.g., PBF/Corrales, PBF/Gatti, PBF/Mitchell (and I'm not saying these guys are comparable to Hatton, but watch these fights and tell me Floyd didn't knock the sh!t out of them with some of his punches).