Pacquiao KO of Hatton,most devestating since Hearns-Duran

[Dizaster]

On my way to posting a reply, I ran into that picture that said it could have been worse. It tickled my funny bone. I agree but seriously I thought the PAC Man would win on cuts after the seventh round but what the hell, he did great anyway. I haven't seen the fight yet so I will hold any other comment except that the ending although many of you thought it was awesome, it completely caught some of us including me by surprise. I thought Hatton was a tougher fighter by virtue of being the bigger man and younger than DeLaHoya. I'm looking forward to HBO running the fight on Saturday, hopefully they will.

Yeah it was a real shock.. But Hatton was thinking purely of offense. Even to the point where it seemed he felt he could go in and attack without even being hit, OR feeling any punches.. It was the same way as every other time he has been knocked down. Coming in and copped a hook he didn't see, wasn't expecting, wasn't prepared for, and this one just landed like a sledge hammer right on the side of his chin and probably jarred his brain and everything...
I could say a stronger chin/"toughness" as you said, would have let him take some more and go on with the fight, but it was purely intelligence that got him KO'd.. He went in purely wanting to land hard, cocked hooks, with no thought of anything else, including avoiding punches coming back at him, and it was just a recipe for disaster which barely let him get through 2 minutes of round 1...
He'd have been better off staying back for 2 rounds with his hands up and jabbed, and got a feel for Pac's speed, even though that is not in his style.... It needed to be much more of a chess match, but he jst sat down at the chess table and threw the board off the table...

He just came in charging without any concern or thought of what could be coming back, and with that had no chance at all..
Ricky is and HAS been a much much more intelligent fighter in the past that what he was Saturday night... And shows that during his career, he wasn't just like a club fighter, bull in a china shop.. He was an intelligent mauler...

People are saying he just came in the same as he always has on Saturday, and finally got found out as the club fighter he's always been.... But there was zero intelligence and that's what lost it for him...