Hatton is handpicked by PBF... this is blasphemy, but please hear me out.

[gudnite vienna]

yep granted Hatton cant really rufuse the fight now if terms are met, but i just think it this is the pot of gold at the end of his rainbow and it should be made maybe three fights on in his career.

If the fight comes off then good on him because hatton clearly wants this bad and my hat goes off to him.

[Dorfmeister]

yep granted Hatton cant really rufuse the fight now if terms are met, but i just think it this is the pot of gold at the end of his rainbow and it should be made maybe three fights on in his career.

If the fight comes off then good on him because hatton clearly wants this bad and my hat goes off to him.

Disagree, I think Hatton just wanted to get on with his career and to be recognized by the Media when he said that his 4 round fight was more entertaining than Floyd's last fights. Floyd took the opportunity to make smart money and to get away from Mosley and played the victim part ( like he's offended ah ah ah), so Ricky has to answer back to the challenge until November, grow into the welterweight division or to a catch-weight between 140 and 147 lbs "overnight" and I just don't believe he wanted it in this way...

[gman1]

this is another smart business decision from floyd. smart boxing viewers know hatton is over-rated and is very beatable esp with a slick fight like maywether. should be a easy enough win for mayweather to expose hatton and make another big payday.

[BIG H]

this is another smart business decision from floyd. smart boxing viewers know hatton is over-rated and is very beatable esp with a slick fight like maywether. should be a easy enough win for mayweather to expose hatton and make another big payday.

Agreed PBF would likely win this one - but you are grossly underestimating Hatton - something tells me you haven't seen many of his fights

[JT Rock]

Floyd took the opportunity to make smart money and to get away from Mosley

I dont understand were your coming from on the whole ducking Mosely thing Floyd has been trying to fight Mosely forever and a day... Mosely refused. WHen asked after the Collazzo fight what he was doing, he said he wasnt sure because of a loose tooth and then the last press release Mosely said he was leaning toward retirement... I would like to see the link that you have to back up this claim.

[SigmaMu]

Let's just say for a minute that Castillo and Kostya Tszyu were shot.
Hatton did what he was supposed to do.
Floyd Mayweather's last 4 out of 5 opponents, were no spring chickens either. The other guy he fought was a mentally ill child who gave him a nice run for about 5 rounds.

Floyd in order to beat Hatton, he would have to run like Sugar Ray Leonard did against Duran II.
I don't see Floyd doing nothing but running in this fight.
This fight will turn out to be the biggest BOO fest in boxing history.
I would not be surprised if Ricky Hatton during the 8th. round just quit and walked out with all the rest of the fans who were getting ready to leave this snooze fest.
Floyd will not come to fight. He knows better.

Let's not encourage Pretty Boring Floyd to come back. He is a runner, not a fighter.

Floyd! Please stay retired!
When I begin to suffer from insomnia, then you can come back. Until then, stay out of the ring. I want to see fighters, not running men.

In closing.. I would rather watch hit and hold than hit and run.


PS.
There will be so much BOOING in this fight that it will be an emberassment to the sport. The MMA sites will be laughing their sick little heads off and laughing at our so called greatest fighter of all times. Not to mention laughing at boxing fans every where.
As fans, we will have to go into hidding.

[JT Rock]

Let's just say for a minute that Castillo and Kostya Tszyu were shot.
Hatton did what he was supposed to do.
Floyd Mayweather's last 4 out of 5 opponents, were no spring chickens either. The other guy he fought was a mentally ill child who gave him a nice run for about 5 rounds.

Floyd in order to beat Hatton, he would have to run like Sugar Ray Leonard did against Duran II.
I don't see Floyd doing nothing but running in this fight.
This fight will turn out to be the biggest BOO fest in boxing history.
I would not be surprised if Ricky Hatton during the 8th. round just quit and walked out with all the rest of the fans who were getting ready to leave this snooze fest.
Floyd will not come to fight. He knows better.

Let's not encourage Pretty Boring Floyd to come back. He is a runner, not a fighter.

Floyd! Please stay retired!
When I begin to suffer from insomnia, then you can come back. Until then, stay out of the ring. I want to see fighters, not running men.

In closing.. I would rather watch hit and hold than hit and run.


PS.
There will be so much BOOING in this fight that it will be an emberassment to the sport. The MMA sites will be laughing their sick little heads off and laughing at our so called greatest fighter of all times. Not to mention laughing at boxing fans every where.
As fans, we will have to go into hidding.

Geeze man, good to have you back... Didnt recognize you without all the Floyd hate By the way Cotto did an great job picking the rest of what Floyd left on Judahs carcass

[gyrokai]

Hatton and Cotto are stylistically different.
Hatton is more of a "in spurts," "wrestler", "mauler" type fighter.
Recently.... Hatton's stamina has been scaring me lately.

You can have an off night, but your stamina never has an off night.
Hatton's legit, stylewise he'll give Cotto and Margarito exciting fights.
But he's not the same as them. Let me explain, I'm not trying to hate, I actually admire Hatton.
Tell me what you think?

I think people think you have to be more talented than Floyd to beat him.
Partially true, you just have to have the right talents that compliment a boxer's style like PBF.
Cutting off the ring the ring is essential.
Hatton doesn't depend on that, he tries to grab you to hold you, to know where you are, and try to unload harder and faster than you. This won't be as affective against boxers who just need a good pair of legs who can back off in time, as shown in the Collazo fight... Hatton ended up following Collazo instead of cutting off Collazo.

YES Hatton may have had an off night, but Collazo is his first and only fight with a man with good legs. When Hatton looked his best, both Kostya's and Castillo's hardly ever back off... both fighters never used the ring, other than Kostya but Kostya by then was more of a hard, very accurate hitter who aimed for the best shots possible from the outside and depended on the other guy to move backwards. Collazo was the first to back off from Hatton... and I didn't see a good answer from Ricky. Off nights your slower and off the mark, but you still have answers, you can still use your brains, think of another strategy.

You never follow a boxer, you just end up falling into traps, even if it's a weak trap, it doesn't look good, and it tends to make you frustrated... further falling into more traps and make more mistakes.
In the Collazo fight, I really didn't see an effective answer other than keep following.
And even if Hatton holds you, you keep real close so he can't hit you with effective punches and if possible sneak in a quick punch.

Cutting off the ring is essential to defeat a ring general, Joe Frazier is the prime example of cutting off.
It's the most effective way to find that mid-range that punchers are at their best. Floyd's made to order for a strong jab. We knew that when we saw how easily Oscar landed it, just recently the old man himself said so also. Hatton's jab is workable, but I don't think it has ever impressed me. It's a means to an end, meaning it's more for a distraction and range finder.

What do you guys think?

[global]

yep granted Hatton cant really rufuse the fight now if terms are met, but i just think it this is the pot of gold at the end of his rainbow and it should be made maybe three fights on in his career.

If the fight comes off then good on him because hatton clearly wants this bad and my hat goes off to him.

Disagree, I think Hatton just wanted to get on with his career and to be recognized by the Media when he said that his 4 round fight was more entertaining than Floyd's last fights.

Hatton seems to think high punch output equates to exciting fight for all people. He must be a huge Tye Fields fan. There was no drama in the fight with Castillo, just a good showing by Ricky, something Floyd has shown his share of. So I don't really rate it an exciting outing. Floyd gave a rematch to the man that come close to beating him, Ricky said he'd love to fight Collazo again, but we see what happened with that. People are letting Ricky get away with saying stupid things but jump all over Floyd and pyschoanalyze what he is saying. Lets think about this Hatton dedicates the fight to Corrales and says Corrales was never in a dull fight, then says Floyd had less excitement in his career than in the preceding 4 rds. A bit of a contradiction there, and we know it was just one of the exciting fights Mayweather has been in.

[SigmaMu]

Let's just say for a minute that Castillo and Kostya Tszyu were shot.
Hatton did what he was supposed to do.
Floyd Mayweather's last 4 out of 5 opponents, were no spring chickens either. The other guy he fought was a mentally ill child who gave him a nice run for about 5 rounds.

Floyd in order to beat Hatton, he would have to run like Sugar Ray Leonard did against Duran II.
I don't see Floyd doing nothing but running in this fight.
This fight will turn out to be the biggest BOO fest in boxing history.
I would not be surprised if Ricky Hatton during the 8th. round just quit and walked out with all the rest of the fans who were getting ready to leave this snooze fest.
Floyd will not come to fight. He knows better.

Let's not encourage Pretty Boring Floyd to come back. He is a runner, not a fighter.

Floyd! Please stay retired!
When I begin to suffer from insomnia, then you can come back. Until then, stay out of the ring. I want to see fighters, not running men.

In closing.. I would rather watch hit and hold than hit and run.


PS.
There will be so much BOOING in this fight that it will be an emberassment to the sport. The MMA sites will be laughing their sick little heads off and laughing at our so called greatest fighter of all times. Not to mention laughing at boxing fans every where.
As fans, we will have to go into hidding.

Geeze man, good to have you back... Didnt recognize you without all the Floyd hate By the way Cotto did an great job picking the rest of what Floyd left on Judahs carcass

That was the real Judah who showed up against Cotto plus he even brought a heart with him in this fight. I could have done with out the theatrics of the first low blow and I am glad Cotto's camp caught onto the Judahs and gave him a real low blow so he would stop pretending.
People complain (silly people) saying Judah got hit in the d1ck or in the nuts. Not true.
NOTE: Not even the two dorks from boxing4real used the low blow excuse and they are huge Judah fans!
Judah was hit in the cup and a protected area. Teddy Atlas said last night, that the protector is like steel. You are protected by a cup, shock absorbing foam padding and leather. Why do you think no one and I do mean no one ever takes 5 minutes? If some one really got hit in the nuts, not even a week would cure the pain. Pedro Fernandez allowed some one to hit him low several times and he proved it did not hurt.
Johnny Knoxville let some one take a sledge hammer to the protected area several times also and he laughed.

I told you before and I will tell you again, Cotto can beat anyone who Floyd can not take out. Cotto not only beats them, he beats them in a greater fashion. Cotto brings the pain while Floyd only brings light rain. lol

[The Boxer]

people cried like babys when PBF hatton fight didn't happen before now the fights seems like more of a possibility then ever and people come up with some way to say that PBF is taking an easy fight.

tell me a top fighter that doesn't handpick his opponents

[gyrokai]

people cried like babys when PBF hatton fight didn't happen before now the fights seems like more of a possibility then ever and people come up with some way to say that PBF is taking an easy fight.

tell me a top fighter that doesn't handpick his opponents

Hey man, Hatton is a good fight, but without sounding like a Hatton hater, I say that he's the easiest of Cotto, Margarito, and Mosley. Collazo made me change my tune, as I put elegantly above. I want people to answer my previous post. Debate the points I argued. I'm not a hater in this thread, I want to debate.

[LegendBoxing65]

The style is all wrong for him. Mayweather 10 rounds to 2 or by late stoppage on cuts.

Hatton can cause problems if he can trap Floyd on the ropes with Hatton mauling PBF on the ropes he wont care where he hits him.Floyd doesnt like to be traped on ropes and Hatton will stick to him like glue.Not many fighters have managed to trap him tho but when they do he finds it hard.
[/quote]Mayweather is too good to be trapped. But the fight will help Hatton. Hatton will not be stopped by Mayweather so it can only help
Hatton. Mayweather surprises me to take on what he thinks is easier than Cotto or Margarito.

[hackey100]

If we were to do divisions it would be as follows:

Mayweather---- Premier League
Hatton, Cotto, Mosley---- Championship
Margarito----Division 1

In the FA cup, lower league teams beat the top level sides, so nothing is beyond possible for any of these guys. Mayweather will always be a heavy favourite, but he is not unbeatable.

[The Boxer]

i think shane is the hardest then comes hatton and cotto with margarito (who ) comming in last as the easiest.

shane is a proven fighter with fast hands and good boxing abiblty.
hatton is a tough strong fighter that likes to stay in you face and doesn't mind getting hit.
cotto is a decent boxer and a decent brawler but i don't see either style beat PBF. matter fact part of me still think PBF KO's cotto in 5rds.
margarito (who )