I wouldn't mind seeing this fight happening, assuming Pac looks good against Diaz, but Hatton needs to fight Malignaggi at some point. Paulie has earned his shot at Hatton.
Some people really knock the idea of the fight, and they always cite that Pac started at Flyweight. The guy had barely hit puberty when he started boxing pro. Just his natural growth and maturation took him to probably 122. If he would have a had a European or American style amateur career, he would have probably turned pro at 20 at 122. It's not such a stretch to think that he has gone up to being a legit 135lb fighter in 10 years. And that leaves him only one proper weight division below Hatton. The size difference, in relative terms, is pretty similar to Mayweather fighting ODLH at 154 or Oscar fighting Hopkins at 160. Thinking about it, it's probably more similar to Oscar against Hopkins, because Hopkins was such a large middleweight and Oscar started at 135.


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