Is Hatton Pac's most powerful opponent yet?

[levi#1BoxingFan]

Hattons power is not going to be as effective as what you might think IMO. For power to even be effective its got to land. I believe that will be the problem for Ricky Hatton. Pacquiao's movement from his head to his feet will give Hatton problems all night long. To me speed is more important in this fight than power. Ricky Hatton is powerful but Pacquiao has some stone hands himself. Its not just speed that has stopped so many of Pacquiao's opponets. When Hatton fought Mayweather, he was head hunting all night, not investing in the body at all and I think thats what cost him the fight. With Pacquiao's equally if not more impressive movement I think this fight will end up the same way, except not a one punch knockout. Im going with an 11th round TKO. Winner Manny Pacquiao. I think it will be a very entertaining fight!

[El Kabong]

Well I think Ricky Hatton has had his day you can't yo-yo your weight so much and still be the same guy. I don't think Mayweather's training style will help him either.

Pacquiao will have to watch out for the clinching and infighting Hatton loves to do. Ricky is going to try and bully Pacquiao and as always I think Manny is going to use his speed and agility to land power punches. Manny has too much speed, too much stamina for Ricky to handle....Ricky's best shot is to make it a rough fight and wear Manny down which he has the ability to do....I just don't know how Ricky is going to take to the southpaw stance vs a guy with fast hands and good power.

[hitmann]

Well I think Ricky Hatton has had his day you can't yo-yo your weight so much and still be the same guy. I don't think Mayweather's training style will help him either.

Pacquiao will have to watch out for the clinching and infighting Hatton loves to do. Ricky is going to try and bully Pacquiao and as always I think Manny is going to use his speed and agility to land power punches. Manny has too much speed, too much stamina for Ricky to handle....Ricky's best shot is to make it a rough fight and wear Manny down which he has the ability to do....I just don't know how Ricky is going to take to the southpaw stance vs a guy with fast hands and good power.

fair points mate, but there was definatley an improvement from hatton in the malignaggi fight that id attribute to mayweather snr. He still got hit a bit too much but alot less than he usually gets hit. As for the clinching, it was malignaggi doing all the clinching all night long in his last fight. i think the southpaw stance will cause problems for hatton just because hatton has always struggled with them.

[JazMerkin]

Hattons power is not going to be as effective as what you might think IMO. For power to even be effective its got to land. I believe that will be the problem for Ricky Hatton. Pacquiao's movement from his head to his feet will give Hatton problems all night long. To me speed is more important in this fight than power. Ricky Hatton is powerful but Pacquiao has some stone hands himself. Its not just speed that has stopped so many of Pacquiao's opponets. When Hatton fought Mayweather, he was head hunting all night, not investing in the body at all and I think thats what cost him the fight. With Pacquiao's equally if not more impressive movement I think this fight will end up the same way, except not a one punch knockout. Im going with an 11th round TKO. Winner Manny Pacquiao. I think it will be a very entertaining fight!

Actually having re-watched the fight just last night, I can say that isn't true. Hatton did try & go to the body in order to slow Mayweather down, the problem he found was the shoulder roll kept taking the effectiveness of that away. Also that fight was most definitely not a one punch knockout, Hatton went down from an accumulation of punches, and anyone who's watched the fight can see that he couldn't deal with the precision.

However, even though I will be supporting Hatton, I would still favour Pacquiao in this fight because his speed will keep him away from Hatton on the outside. Also I think Hatton may get caught with flurries in much the same way that Diaz did against him. However, I don't see Hatton getting knocked out, but I think Pacquiao may well drop him at least once. As good as Kostya Tszyu was he was not anywhere near as quick as Pacquiao, and I think if Pacquiao trys to fight smart and not let Hatton get him on the inside than he should box to a UD. Most people watching the fight know Mayweather could have chosen to spend the whole night potshotting as he did against Baldomir, but appeared to fight on the inside to prove a point to Hatton given some of the pre-fight comments. When he did chose to hit him on the outside, the speed & accumulation of punches is what handed Hatton defeat, and Pacquiao can more than match this if boxes smart. However, if Hatton can cut down the ring and keep it on the inside, then the fact Pac's arms are so long will count against him, and Hatton could cause him some problems. However, like I said above I don't see this happening

[leftylee]

Hattons power is not going to be as effective as what you might think IMO. For power to even be effective its got to land. I believe that will be the problem for Ricky Hatton. Pacquiao's movement from his head to his feet will give Hatton problems all night long. To me speed is more important in this fight than power. Ricky Hatton is powerful but Pacquiao has some stone hands himself. Its not just speed that has stopped so many of Pacquiao's opponets. When Hatton fought Mayweather, he was head hunting all night, not investing in the body at all and I think thats what cost him the fight. With Pacquiao's equally if not more impressive movement I think this fight will end up the same way, except not a one punch knockout. Im going with an 11th round TKO. Winner Manny Pacquiao. I think it will be a very entertaining fight!

Actually having re-watched the fight just last night, I can say that isn't true. Hatton did try & go to the body in order to slow Mayweather down, the problem he found was the shoulder roll kept taking the effectiveness of that away. Also that fight was most definitely not a one punch knockout, Hatton went down from an accumulation of punches, and anyone who's watched the fight can see that he couldn't deal with the precision.

However, even though I will be supporting Hatton, I would still favour Pacquiao in this fight because his speed will keep him away from Hatton on the outside. Also I think Hatton may get caught with flurries in much the same way that Diaz did against him. However, I don't see Hatton getting knocked out, but I think Pacquiao may well drop him at least once. As good as Kostya Tszyu was he was not anywhere near as quick as Pacquiao, and I think if Pacquiao trys to fight smart and not let Hatton get him on the inside than he should box to a UD. Most people watching the fight know Mayweather could have chosen to spend the whole night potshotting as he did against Baldomir, but appeared to fight on the inside to prove a point to Hatton given some of the pre-fight comments. When he did chose to hit him on the outside, the speed & accumulation of punches is what handed Hatton defeat, and Pacquiao can more than match this if boxes smart. However, if Hatton can cut down the ring and keep it on the inside, then the fact Pac's arms are so long will count against him, and Hatton could cause him some problems. However, like I said above I don't see this happening

You can't put Ricky Hatton's name in the same sentence with a bum like David Diaz.

BTW Hatton smashes Pac.