Quote Originally Posted by OwnedbyICB
Quote Originally Posted by penalosafan
As I've said, ability to take the punches of Floyd and abiity to pressure him was Hatton's only chance. Clearly, Hatton couldn't take Floyd's punches well, but when he did pressure him on the first few rounds, he did put Floyd in some trouble. But he used up most of his energy doing so where instead he should have paced himself more, not that it would have mattered.

Quote Originally Posted by sexydarin
Swarming is the only way of having a chance to beat mayweather. Boxing mayweather from the outside doesn't work either.
Right, except Hatton wasn't swarming, he was just using hit-and-hold tactic. A good example of swarming is what Juarez did to Barrera on their first fight. If you watch that, you'll know the big difference between real swarming and what Hatton did. Juarez attacked Barrera with short crisp hooks and uppers without letup while Hatton just hit Floyd couple of times and held on to him right after almost every inside attack.
CC bro for that point, Hatton pissed me off when he went in as he had no defence watsoever and just got picked off. In The Ring mag when they asked 20 experts for their view apart from Paulie "I am the man" Malignaggi, Buddy McGirt's comment has been on my mind the past couple of weeks as he too said this would be very easy for Floyd saying Hatton would just come in and PBF would pick him off all night for a late stoppage and looking back McGirt's view was perfect and that's exactly what happened.
CC back, bro. Yup, knowing their clear-cup styles, this fight was one of the easiest to predict. I think most boxing analysts predicted this fight correctly. The only point of disagreement was whether it would be a UD or a KO. Most went for the UD while few went for KO. I myself predicted Ricky would be very 'hittable' but didn't make any prediction on whether it'll be a UD or a KO, but personally favored a UD by 60-40 or maybe 70-30 margin. I think lot of us underestimated the 'natural weight' factor - Hatton was just too small for Floyd. When Floyd landed bit shots on Oscar, he just flinched a bit and just continued fighting, but when Floyd got Ricky with it, he sent him flying to the corner post.