Quote Originally Posted by zhubin View Post
Quote Originally Posted by miles View Post
It's easy enough to argue in hindsight that a certain bout was a mismatch. I'm not so sure, Hatton performed poorly to say the least, but nobody was really expecting Hatton to get blown away quite so easily. It's a fight that I struggle to watch. It was like Hatton had a death wish and went out there and did everything he should not have done. His punch resistance was obselete. You could tickle him and he would be wobbling, quite strange.
There where some people on this board, including myself, who felt Hatton had no chance. He was already damaged goods at that point anyways...add to that the constant ballooning of weight in between fights (you could tell he tried to kill himself to make weight for that fight) and his come forward style...and the outcome was not shocking at all IMO.
But to do it in 2 rounds and with Hatton landing only one effective punch was quite something. I certainly never envisaged that it would be quite that one sided. The warning signs were there with Hatton, but being a fan I chose to discard them in the hope that he could do something special.