Why is Hatton's loss being put on the trainer?

[fan johnny]

Ricky Hatton was not ready for the fight mentally. People have said his self indulgent attitude is an act to promote the fight but his action display otherwise.

While the ultimate blame may lie with Ricky, but with out any doubt Floyd Mayweather Sr. should to accept a percentage of the blame that he failed Ricky for this bout. Ricky's head was not in the right place. As a trainer and corner man he accepted the job and should have been aware of where is head was as part of any game plan. He failed to get Ricky in the right frame of mind and that's 50% the trainer's/cornerman's fault.

Even after the fight he didn't even pretend to show concern about his man. This characterization will haunt him should he continue to pursue boxing as a trainer. With that display of integrity, I don't think there is a top fighter other than Jr. who would think of having him in his corner. He ran out in the face of defeat. IMO, Any bad press he gets he deserves.

[Howlin Mad Missy]

If his trainer had not tried to alter anything or give him the tools to win then yes we could lay some blame his way.

Him running his mouth off has nothing to do with it. Roach talks as much crap.

Fact is for whatever reason Hatton acted like a bonehead. No head or body movement and charged in. When Pacs first lead hook landed that told me everything on how this fight would go.

Hatton has only himself to blame. It also shows the gulf between Hatton and the great fighters Pac has fought who were able to take those shots.

[Howlin Mad Missy]

Ricky Hatton was not ready for the fight mentally. People have said his self indulgent attitude is an act to promote the fight but his action display otherwise.

While the ultimate blame may lie with Ricky, but with out any doubt Floyd Mayweather Sr. should to accept a percentage of the blame that he failed Ricky for this bout. Ricky's head was not in the right place. As a trainer and corner man he accepted the job and should have been aware of where is head was as part of any game plan. He failed to get Ricky in the right frame of mind and that's 50% the trainer's/cornerman's fault.

Even after the fight he didn't even pretend to show concern about his man. This characterization will haunt him should he continue to pursue boxing as a trainer. With that display of integrity, I don't think there is a top fighter other than Jr. who would think of having him in his corner. He ran out in the face of defeat. IMO, Any bad press he gets he deserves.

Possibly but I've seen good corner work in action, trying all sorts to get through to their man and I've seen a fighter mentally break in the corner. For some people I don't think there is anything a corner can do for them.
Maybe the years of Graham shouting in the corner trying to gee his man up was detrimental in the long term when a cooler headed Hatton was required?

[JonesJrMayweather]

people that are saying ricky should have stayed with graham, he's the one that allowed ricky to go for so long with all those bad habits...even when he was suffering from cuts, he never was told to start keeping his hands up..now that ricky is on the big stage his flaws are being exploited. Must be why they never put him in the ring with Junior witter, that lost would have surely saved him from these two embarassments and we'd be talking about how junior witter beat pac at 140 and lost to floyd at 147...

[ElTerribleMorales]

people that are saying ricky should have stayed with graham, he's the one that allowed ricky to go for so long with all those bad habits...even when he was suffering from cuts, he never was told to start keeping his hands up..now that ricky is on the big stage his flaws are being exploited. Must be why they never put him in the ring with Junior witter, that lost would have surely saved him from these two embarassments and we'd be talking about how junior witter beat pac at 140 and lost to floyd at 147...

Witter gets his ass handed to him just as bad as Ricky if not worse