Do you think PAC will inflict the worst beating ever on Hatton?

[XaduBoxer]

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By Scott Gilfoid:

With two wins over less than impressive opponents in his last two fights, Ricky Hatton (45-1, 32 KOs) will once again step into the fire, this time against Manny Pacquiao (48-3-2, 36 KOs) on May 2nd in Las Vegas, Nevada. Hatton, 30, is taking a huge risk in fighting Pacquiao, who looked unbeatable recently in dismantling Oscar De La Hoya earlier in the month. The fight, which many felt would be a competitive one, saw De La Hoya take a terrible beating, bad enough so that Oscar had to quit on his stool after the 8th round. Hatton, despite his loss to Floyd Mayweather Jr., a 10th round stoppage in 2007, and a close call against Juan Lazcano after being hurt by him, Hatton remains a popular fighter. However, the question remains, will Hatton continue to be popular if he’s beaten as badly as De La Hoya and David Diaz were against Pacquiao?

Right now, Hatton couldn’t have chosen a worse time to fight Pacquiao, because at 30, Pacquiao is fighting at his best, and looking downright invincible. Hatton, heavy straight ahead, one-paced pressure fighter, would seem to be tailor made for Pacquiao, who for his part, can do it all - box, slug and move. Pacquiao, like Mayweather, won’t stand directly in front of Hatton and allow him to wrestle, maul and land his shots at close range like the more limited fighters that Hatton has faced. Pacquiao will likely fight the same way he did against De La Hoya, moving in and out, landing blinding fast combinations and circling the ring on Hatton.

This is almost without a doubt going to be a fight where Hatton takes terrific punishment, and gets battered without stop. Certainly, Hatton has the power to take Pacquiao out if Manny chooses to stand directly in front of him and trade shots at close range, but that’s not how Pacquiao fights.
He’ll move often, drilling the much slower Hatton with fast combinations before he has time enough to respond to the punches. I think, if it gets bad enough, we may see Hatton quit on his stool in the same manner that De La Hoya did.

When he sees that he has no chance in the fight, and that he’s only taking needless punishment, Hatton may prefer to save himself for another day. However, a bad loss to Pacquiao will all but destroy any chances for Hatton to take on Mayweather, although De La Hoya will still probably be an option for him.

The public would probably have little interest in seeing him fight anyone, however, until Hatton redeems himself with some good wins over top talent like Junior Witter or Timothy Bradley, but that’s not likely something that Hatton will do.

He’ll probably go from a knockout loss to Pacquiao straight into another mega fight against De La Hoya, but it will be obviously a much less popular fight than it would otherwise be if Hatton could somehow beat Pacquiao. But, I don’t give Hatton much if any chance at beating Pacquiao, and have to be logical about this. Hatton will take his beating, just like De La Hoya, and the only hope is that Hatton can at least make it close enough so as not to suffer in losing.

[CFH]

What a relative, unbiased article. Was that written by Pac's mom?

I would hardly consider Paulie Malignaggi an unremarkable opponent, he was the #2 guy at 140. What's funny is he then refers to Witter as "top talent".

[XaduBoxer]

link --> Hatton-Pacquiao: What’s Ricky Going To Do When Things Fall Apart?

By William Mackay:

As I play this fight through my mind wondering how it’s going to play out, I just can’t see Ricky Hatton (45-1, 32 KOs) fighting any other way than he’s always done for most of his career, and against a fighter as good as Manny Pacquiao (48-3-2, 36 KOs), that’s just not going to it done. May 2nd is quite a long time, but even if the fight were to take place in a year, I see Hatton as still fighting with the same, face forward, wrestle and hit, style that he’s done for his entire career.

If his new trainer Floyd Mayweather Sr. has had any effect on changing Ricky’s style, I can’t see it. Aside from a few jabs against Paulie Malignaggi, a harmless opponent with little power, Hatton fought pretty much as he always does, mostly slugging it out. Against Pacquiao, who’s much faster in terms of hand and foot speed, Hatton is going to have some serious problems almost immediately in that fight.

Unlike his bout with Floyd Mayweather Jr. where Hatton did a fair job in the first half of the fight, I see him having immediate problems against Pacquiao. The problem is that Hatton’s just too slow to match Pacquiao’s blazing hand speed and will find himself getting hit repeatedly in the face early on. I’m sure that his trainer, Mayweather Sr., will have a lot of back up strategies, mostly advising Hatton to try and stay on the outside, to work his jab and use lateral movement against Pacquiao. Sorry, but that won’t work. Pacquiao moves to quickly with feet and can get within punching distance in a fraction of a second to land his hard, spearing jab and straight left.

What then will Hatton do? My guess is he’ll do the typical thing, forgetting all the complicated advice from Mayweather Sr. and just bum rush Pacquiao repeatedly, hoping for the best but getting the worst of it. The bum rush strategy, something Hatton has made famous in fights against Kostya Tszyu, Jose Luis Castillo and not so famous in his fight against Mayweather Jr., is been an old standby for Hatton for many years and it’s mostly worked well for him during that time.

Only recently, in a loss to Mayweather Jr. and in a fight against Juan Lazcano, where Hatton was hurt twice in the fight while rushing in wildly, did his bum rush strategy not work. Unless I miss my guess, it will probably fail again when Hatton meets up with Pacquiao. Pacquiao will be ready for it. His trainer Freddie Roach will have prepared Pacquiao extensively on how to cope with Hatton’s face forward attacks, likely having him move just enough to pick Hatton off as he comes forward.
Hatton did a good job in his last fight, ducking under the jab of Malignaggi to land right hands. It won’t work against Pacquiao. He’ll fire off blazing fast combinations when Hatton tires to lob his slow right hands and get his shots in well before him.

In the end, I doubt Hatton will be able to make it even as far as Oscar De La Hoya without folding. Perhaps the only reason that Oscar made it that far was because he was able to use the ring to escape to the outside for brief spells. This saved him from taking even more punishment, but in the end it couldn’t save him from losing the battle, because eventually Pacquiao caught up to him enough times to take his heart and beat him into quitting.

Hatton won’t do this, and will instead rush foolishly straight into the maw of Pacquiao’s much superior offensive firepower and will be quickly riddled to pieces. By the time that he realizes that he made a mistake, Hatton will be too hurt to escape and will be overwhelmed and taken out by Pacquiao. If Hatton’s lucky, he might see the 6th round but no more than that.

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Boxing News 24 always posts very subjective articles which bring nothing to attention except the narrowmindedness of their writers. All you have to do is check the comments below to see what people generally think of the articles.

Maybe Pacquiao does have the advantage, he certainly brings a lot to the ring, but to rule out Hatton in any fight, hell, to rule out any fighter completely in any fight is totally disrespectful and bone headed.

Everyone has their day, no matter who fights you cannot rule out a result different to what you expect, cos' all that matters happens on the night and boxing is just as unpredictable, perhaps even more so than any other sport.

Pacquiao is a damn good fighter and I admire him, but never ever rule out Ricky Hatton.

[Chris24-7]

link --> Will Hatton’s Career Survive A Beating From Pacquiao?

link --> Hatton-Pacquiao: What’s Ricky Going To Do When Things Fall Apart?

Boxing News 24 always posts very subjective articles which bring nothing to attention except the narrowmindedness of their writers. All you have to do is check the comments below to see what people generally think of the articles.

Maybe Pacquiao does have the advantage, he certainly brings a lot to the ring, but to rule out Hatton in any fight, hell, to rule out any fighter completely in any fight is totally disrespectful and bone headed.

Everyone has their day, no matter who fights you cannot rule out a result different to what you expect, cos' all that matters happens on the night and boxing is just as unpredictable, perhaps even more so than any other sport.

Pacquiao is a damn good fighter and I admire him, but never ever rule out Ricky Hatton.

Great post man, can pretty much shush any fanboys. Do realize hes only posting all these biased & one sided articles im sure theres plenty going in favor of Ricky who I wold put down as favorite. He looks much improved and comfortable in his natural weight class...come May he WILL be ready

[XaduBoxer]

Betting Odds Update (with 5 weeks to go):

After 6 weeks of training by Hatton and 3 weeks that of Pacquiao, the betting odds did not change much...

Manny Pacquiao is at minus -240 to beat Ricky Hatton in their May 2 junior welterweight fight at the MGM Grand Garden. Hatton is plus +200.

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[XaduBoxer]

"RICKY HATTON has been warned he could be killed when he tangles with Manny Pacquiao."

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[XaduBoxer]

What a relative, unbiased article. Was that written by Pac's mom?

I would hardly consider Paulie Malignaggi an unremarkable opponent, he was the #2 guy at 140. What's funny is he then refers to Witter as "top talent".

You have to bear with these numerous unbiased PAC boxing articles... PAC has so many relatives that are boxing writers aside from his mom, brothers, etc...

[DatsiK]

Those articles make me sick at the measure of how biased they are... you would think they were writ by SaddoBoxer himself.

[DatsiK]

My turn to post a training video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qm6G5diNXpo

Looking at that I think Rickys jab has improved shed loads..

[Chris24-7]

My turn to post a training video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qm6G5diNXpo
Looking at that I think Rickys jab has improved shed loads..

He does look much improved since he's been under Mayweather & looks in a lot better shape then I saw him a couple of months ago

Cant wait for him to stun all the Pacquiao fanboys

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There are rumors that this bout could also end up as IBF championship. But I strongly doubt though. Urango will not vacate his belt win or lose to Berto.

[JOMANS]

My turn to post a training video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qm6G5diNXpo

Looking at that I think Rickys jab has improved shed loads..

well looking at this makes him look really slow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qm6G5diNXpo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZ5jkCJeVR8