Quote Originally Posted by richard (mossley) View Post
If that punch had not landed?
Hatton went down twice in first rd, JMM went down 3 times and came back.
Please consider the following:

Hatton was landing on Paq, not an amazing amount, but he landed more in 2 rds than Oscar De La Hoya did in the entire fight. Paq has said that Hattons puches were hurtful.

Although Hatton went down in rd 1 twice, he had not gone down in rd 2, in my view he clearly was having more success in rd 2 than rd 1, although Paq clearly took the round.

Consider the fight was of an incredible pace which could not be sustained, I believe if Hatton had survived another 2 rounds, Paq would have slowed down giving Hatton a chance in the later rounds.

I am not saying Hatton would have won, all I am asking is would he have had a chance later on if Paq slowed down?

The fight was an incredible 7 minutes worth of action and to me showed me why no other sport could match it when at its best.
Answer: no way, he was getting badly out boxed. People don't realize that even though he was wide open for the right hook than Hatton's hand placement allowed him to see the left cross which Cotto wouldn't see coming, and if he changed his hand placement he would have been nailed by that left hand, and if he continued the same way Pacquiao would have picked him apart wiht the right hook, but you already saw Pacman almost land that same punch twice before he did, and it was only a matter of time, he had Hatton's timing down from the get go, and it was easy to see that it was going to end early.