By Mark Vester
During a recent interview with Chris Robinson of The Examiner , trainer Floyd Mayweather Sr. blamed Hatton's co-trainer at the time, Lee Beard, for the loss to Manny Pacquiao in May 2009. Mayweather trained Hatton for the fight and Beard served as the co-trainer. Hatton was knocked out by Pacquiao in two rounds.
Mayweather claims that he gave Hatton a good strategy to beat Pacquiao, but then Beard changed the strategy when he re-trained Hatton.
“The guy Lee Beard was training him when he went back home. He went back there and he trained him all over again. A lot of people told me that when he came back they went into a different game plan. So everything I built, he broke it down. You can’t learn from two different trainers. You can only train with one person at a time,” Mayweather Sr. said.
Mayweather Sr. would also make a claim that Hatton's fear of Pacquiao was a factor in the loss. That logic is hard to believe since Hatton tried to engage Pacquiao from the sound of the opening bell.
“I think Ricky Hatton was scared more than anything,” Mayweather Sr. said.
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