Would Ricardo Torres KO Ricky Hatton ??

[HattonTheHammer]

I don't think so. I mean you need to see the fight yourself mate to see whether you think Hatton's shot but IMO he ain't shot.

Hatton isn't shot, he's just not performing the way he was Pre-Kostya Tszyu. Carlos Maussa was a great performance too. But Hatton shouldn't be having trouble with Juan Lazcano, the 15 month retired lightweight. Hatton isn't "shot," but he's certainly fallen from the man he used to be.

its to be expected

fighting with his style has endless limitations, its quite acheivable at 25-26 but come your early 30s you will naturally lose that ability to fight on the inside for 36 constant minutes.

Everyone keeps using the tszyu fight as hattons benchmark. That particular fight worked well for ricky because the 2 styles were so similar and it was rickys age and aggression that got him through that night against probably a much better technical exponent that lady time caught up with.

[gyrokai]

I don't think so. I mean you need to see the fight yourself mate to see whether you think Hatton's shot but IMO he ain't shot.

Hatton isn't shot, he's just not performing the way he was Pre-Kostya Tszyu. Carlos Maussa was a great performance too. But Hatton shouldn't be having trouble with Juan Lazcano, the 15 month retired lightweight. Hatton isn't "shot," but he's certainly fallen from the man he used to be.

its to be expected

fighting with his style has endless limitations, its quite acheivable at 25-26 but come your early 30s you will naturally lose that ability to fight on the inside for 36 constant minutes.

Everyone keeps using the tszyu fight as hattons benchmark. That particular fight worked well for ricky because the 2 styles were so similar and it was rickys age and aggression that got him through that night against probably a much better technical exponent that lady time caught up with.

I don't follow that range of thought.

Hatton's young. He gets tired TOO easy. It's not like he's a Frazier, who had HELL fights, before you could see that he aged. Hell, Frazier could fight when he was 30. Hatton has had stamina problems years ago, heh, which is pretty pathetic. Even by the standards of today, when fighters ONLY fight at most twice a year. Hatton just barely started sparring, so the sparring hasn't aged him. And his fights were busy in the past, but they weren't wear and tear fights. They weren't wars at all. This is even before the Floyd KO, he's been struggling with stamina, even before Collazo he didn't have a "war" type fight.

Who knows, maybe Hatton's taking drugs. heh