DLH Vs. Hatton (and no i don't mean it's happening)

[ono]

De La Hoya by complete embarrassment. I loved Hatton, but he loses to nearly every quick handed elite fighter who can throw more than one punch at a time.

He has never been able to deal with it. The fact he nearly got ko'd by Collazo had fuck all to do with him fighting at welterweight and neither did Mayweather. He just doesn't know how to react to combinations, and he's never been able to deal with speed. Collazo threw fast combinations and nearly took Hatton's head off. Same with Pacquiao and once Mayweather opened up, he did the same thing.

It's ok saying he only lost to the two greatest fighters of a generation, but the facts are he never convincingly beat anybody who was in their prime who was technically good with fast hands. Oscar would stop him after about 6 or 7 imo.

[p4pking]

De La Hoya by complete embarrassment. I loved Hatton, but he loses to nearly every quick handed elite fighter who can throw more than one punch at a time.

He has never been able to deal with it. The fact he nearly got ko'd by Collazo had fuck all to do with him fighting at welterweight and neither did Mayweather. He just doesn't know how to react to combinations, and he's never been able to deal with speed. Collazo threw fast combinations and nearly took Hatton's head off. Same with Pacquiao and once Mayweather opened up, he did the same thing.

It's ok saying he only lost to the two greatest fighters of a generation, but the facts are he never convincingly beat anybody who was in their prime who was technically good with fast hands. Oscar would stop him after about 6 or 7 imo.

Good post. You've got to love people defending Hatton's chances on the basis that "he only lost to the two best p4p fighters", without recognizing that he was KNOCKED OUT by both, and never beat anyone close to the same level, being rocked by several far inferior guys. At the same time people will excuse his poor performance against Collazo due to being at WW, although Collazo isn't a puncher nor did he impose his size in the fight. Talk about having it both ways.

[Andrew73]

De La Hoya yesterday, today and tomorrow.

[Gandalf]

De La Hoya yesterday, today and tomorrow.

What about the day before yesterday because Hatton wasn't bad then, you know. Hatton deserves his knocks for how he has handled his career and I can see clearly why his estimation has gone down in the eyes of many, but stick the Hatton that faced Tszyu in there with a still green Oscar at 140 and you have a hell of a fight.

[ono]

De La Hoya by complete embarrassment. I loved Hatton, but he loses to nearly every quick handed elite fighter who can throw more than one punch at a time.

He has never been able to deal with it. The fact he nearly got ko'd by Collazo had fuck all to do with him fighting at welterweight and neither did Mayweather. He just doesn't know how to react to combinations, and he's never been able to deal with speed. Collazo threw fast combinations and nearly took Hatton's head off. Same with Pacquiao and once Mayweather opened up, he did the same thing.

It's ok saying he only lost to the two greatest fighters of a generation, but the facts are he never convincingly beat anybody who was in their prime who was technically good with fast hands. Oscar would stop him after about 6 or 7 imo.

Good post. You've got to love people defending Hatton's chances on the basis that "he only lost to the two best p4p fighters", without recognizing that he was KNOCKED OUT by both, and never beat anyone close to the same level, being rocked by several far inferior guys. At the same time people will excuse his poor performance against Collazo due to being at WW, although Collazo isn't a puncher nor did he impose his size in the fight. Talk about having it both ways.

Yeah exactly. Don't get me wrong i loved Hatton and he was the reason i joined the forum 5 years ago, but he had his limitations. People go on about Khan being protected, but Warren did an absolute dynamite job of keeping Hatton away from anyone who had the style to trouble him. As soon as Hatton left Warren, he went in with 3 guys who could put punches together, and he looked pretty bad in all 3. Granted 2 were Pacquiao and Mayweather, but like you said he was badly knocked out in both. Against Collazo he was a whisker away from being knocked out. It's not so much the power of a single shot (although that did it for Pac), it's the fact that he can't react to more than one punch at a time. Lazcano even troubled him, because he threw combinations. He can't react to that style and somebody as good as Oscar would murder him.