Hatton struggling with a virus fight goes on!

[LEGION]

Ricky gets a cold or flu before every fight.

Why?

Because he allows himself to baloon out of shape, kills himself in training and weakens his immune system.

You beat me to it the best post on this topic so far.

Yeah good post; short and right to the heart of the matter. Donny said in another post Hatton trains as hard as anyone in camp: well he has to considering his lifestyle.

It's just like overweight people who go from one diet to the next, back and forth, lose weight gain weight. Very hard on the body. A consistent lifestyle is much healthier, especially in the long run when Ricky retires.

[donnydarkoIRL]

Ricky gets a cold or flu before every fight.

Why?

Because he allows himself to baloon out of shape, kills himself in training and weakens his immune system.

You beat me to it the best post on this topic so far.

Yeah good post; short and right to the heart of the matter. Donny said in another post Hatton trains as hard as anyone in camp: well he has to considering his lifestyle.

It's just like overweight people who go from one diet to the next, back and forth, lose weight gain weight. Very hard on the body. A consistent lifestyle is much healthier, especially in the long run when Ricky retires.

Thanks Legion appreciated.

The fact is a fighter has to train for dual purposes.
1) To develop his skills, fitness and stamina.
2) To make weight.

If a fighter maintains his weight between fights, stays in good shape and allows himself effective rest he will be able to return for his next training camp, with less weight worries and more time for training his skills, stamina etc.
I don't feel that it is coincidental that we have seen Hatton baloon between fights and then employ a basic plan in all his fights and seemingly running low on his once endless supply of stamina.

Ricky has already suffered because of his lifestyle.
However, he did not blow up much after Mayweather I have to admit.

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To touch on what Donny said. I believe if he did stay in better shape, it would allow him to spend much more time refining his skills.

To be fair to him, he has only lost once in 44 fights and that was to Mayweather. Even being in fantastic year round condition wouldn't have made any difference to his record imo. Talent beat him. Not his lifestyle.

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IMO it's a different type of weight for Ricky to lose than other notorious examples like JC and Corrales. The latter type are big men for the weights and have to dehydrate, whereas you can see from Ricky's face between fights that he is genuinely fat, IMO RH isn't a big LWW and from the interview with his nutritionist he doesn't really need to dehydrate himself much. Wether losing this type of weight is more or less detrimental I don't know, but I'm quite sure that Ricky's lifestyle is catching up with him slowly.

[littlebif]

With Ricky having to train so hard to make the weight could a few days off ,make him train even harder when he feels better and burn him self out before the fight.Or even struggle to make the weight ?