By Mark Vester
Trainer Floyd Mayweather Sr. is speaking out about Ricky Hatton's two-round knockout loss to Manny Pacquiao. According to Mayweather, there was plenty of turmoil in camp, confirming pre-fights rumors that Hatton's team had trouble from within. Mayweather and Hatton have not spoken since the fight, and there was trouble between the trainer and Lee Beard, Hatton's assistant trainer. Mayweather said Hatton went away from their fight plan because Beard was training Hatton on his own.
"You got to listen to your corner, simple as that. And like I said once before there was turmoil in the camp. It showed up in the fight. Not because of me. It showed up in the fight because he had another person training him when I wasn't around and sometimes when I was around. He guided Ricky in the wrong way," Mayweather told 8countnews.com.
Ray Hatton, father and manager of Ricky, says his son has not made a decision on whether or not he plans to retire from the ring. He hints that Ricky is likely to keep going.
"He's taking his time. He is single minded, stubborn if you like, and once he makes up his mind that will be it. We will respect that decision and knowing him it will be final and certainly he won't be a Frank Sinatra, forever making comebacks," Ray said.
"The defeat is still very painful for him even now. He knows he was reckless and his game plan went out of the window. A lot of people who know him well are thinking they can't see him going out and ending his career on the back of that sort of defeat."
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