Hatton expecting to weigh 154lbs come fight night Vs Pac!!

[Taeth]

"Ricky Hatton knows his bulldozing style of fighting won’t be good enough to beat Manny Pacquiao in Las Vegas on May 2. Instead, he will rely on hand speed and punching power."

I think many will give the speed advantage to PAC and punching power is just even... But what is the use of punching power if you can't hit your opponent cleanly?
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That doesn't mean that he is going to try and fight him like Floyd Jr would... It means he accepts that he can't just walk forward swinging wild punches at Pacman like he would of with Billy Graham. His 'USUAL BRAWLING STYLE'...

Did a young Mike Tyson Brawl? No... he was aggresive and came forwards, he took the fight to people and used good footwork and hand speed to do so. That doesn't mean that he fought with a style like Muhammad Ali though.

When you joined the Pacman fan club did they send you out special tinted glasses or something?...

I agree he should use headmovement, but unlike other times, he should keep his hands by his head, I notice he lowers them when he is coming forward and thats why Mayweather could hit him at will coming in. He needs to change this against Pacman, but I think unlike Tyson he needs to fight how he fights when he gets Pacman on the ropes. He needs to smother Pacquiao, and give him no room to get punches off.

[AdamGB]

"Ricky Hatton knows his bulldozing style of fighting won’t be good enough to beat Manny Pacquiao in Las Vegas on May 2. Instead, he will rely on hand speed and punching power."

I think many will give the speed advantage to PAC and punching power is just even... But what is the use of punching power if you can't hit your opponent cleanly?
.

That doesn't mean that he is going to try and fight him like Floyd Jr would... It means he accepts that he can't just walk forward swinging wild punches at Pacman like he would of with Billy Graham. His 'USUAL BRAWLING STYLE'...

Did a young Mike Tyson Brawl? No... he was aggresive and came forwards, he took the fight to people and used good footwork and hand speed to do so. That doesn't mean that he fought with a style like Muhammad Ali though.

When you joined the Pacman fan club did they send you out special tinted glasses or something?...

I agree he should use headmovement, but unlike other times, he should keep his hands by his head, I notice he lowers them when he is coming forward and thats why Mayweather could hit him at will coming in. He needs to change this against Pacman, but I think unlike Tyson he needs to fight how he fights when he gets Pacman on the ropes. He needs to smother Pacquiao, and give him no room to get punches off.

Wasn't saying he fights that much like Tyson mate... just trying to explain to the nut hugger how a fighter can out fight somebody and use technique to do it.

I agree... god knows what was up with Ricky's guard in that fight... The way he was boxing he NEEDED a guard and it was basically non-existent... he might as well have had them behind his back.

Became very disenchanted with Billy Graham pre Collazo and thought he was a joke afterwards... with hindsight I think he took Ricky up to Tyszu and that was his limit... you can't just do almost nothing but beast a fighter and then throw him in with elite, slick fighters.

Hopefully with a real boxing coach rather than a glorified conditioning coach/pad man he might have been able to make the right adjustments to his game to actually be able bring his strengths to pac.

Will be interesting to see...