People criticized De La Hoya for going after a payday with a much smaller fighter. I hang around boxing clubs everyday and watch many fights on TV and Pac was getting credit for taking on a bigger guy. And for this Hatton deal, well its hard to credit Pac when he was offered 52% from the champ at 140 and all Pac's people agreed but when the deadline hour came Pac was nowhere to be found and didn't even return calls. How do you justify that? It doesn't matter how great people think a fighter is no fighter is immuned to being criticized and this criticism is very much warranted. Remember, if Hatton would've said no to the 50/50 split and let the deadline hour pass and never return even his own people's phone calls then he would have been called everthing in the book. Pac is getting off lightly. People are even creating excuses like he is looking for PBF instead. Well, Freddie Roach hasn't even been informed on that one but I hope a PBF fight comes out of this. And if the excuse is Pac couldn't negotiate with Hatton he has no chance with PBF.