https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/boxing/article-5156439/Ricky-Hatton-night-lost-Floyd-Mayweather.html
The fight was scheduled for 12 rounds, Hatton had prepared for 15. In the end Mayweather would need only 10.
'It f****** winds me up to watch it now, honestly it does,' the Hitman cries when Sportsmail visits his gym to watch and relive the money-spinning showdown.
'I knew it was going to be the toughest fight of my life,' he remembers.
'I still to this day think I had a chance of beating him but I think they pulled the rug out from under me, I really do.'
After nine-and-a-half ferocious rounds, Hatton was stopped for the first time in his career by the former five-weight world champion.
But it was the third man in the ring — referee Joe Cortez — who would steal the headlines.
Check out how bias the author gets there at the end.
'Embarrassing,' is Hatton's verdict on the official's performance 10 years later. 'Absolutely disgusting,' snarls his then-trainer Billy Graham.
Which fight are you talking about? Ward lost the first fight.
There's no disputing that.
He WOULD have beat Kovalev in the rematch, at least that's what I think. But he nut shotted him to death before he could beat him. Such a weird decision by the referee.
your opinion doesnt change the fact it was disputed lol :chairshot
I was responding to someone who's a Ward fan who complained about Hatton's use of dirty tactics. You you weren’t you lying piece of schit. We can still see the thread idiot. Nobody was complaining about Hatton’s tactics. You came in here and co-signed someone who tried to make this about race using ward as a deflection. The only people complaining here is Hatton and his b1tchmade fans like you. Y’all are complaining that the ref stole Hatton’s chance of winning the fight by not allowing him to use his so-called “dirty tactics”. Not only is that a weak excuse it’s a blatant lie. Hatton was allowed to try his gameplan and it didn’t work.
Of course you’ve got to put me on ignore. I’m using the truth to put my foot in your a$$. Run pussC run.
Trying to equate them in anyway is the problem you neanderthal. I know your skull is thicker than a pure human but how hard is that for you to understand? There’s no point in comparing ward and Hatton other than to try and deflect and push some reverse racism bulls hit. This thread is not about people trashing Hatton for his supposedly dirty tactics, this thread is about trashing him for being a piece of schit sore loser trying to blame the ref instead of taking his loss to Floyd like a man. I’m starting to think though, maybe it’s not his fault because maybe he just can’t help it. Maybe he was just born to be a pathetic excuse maker who has to blame others for own failures. Seems as if it’s the culture he was raised in.
Lol wow. “Bu bu you blacks always play the race card............now I know I just played it but that’s not a contradiction because I don’t tend to talk about race, it’s just that you blacks in America are the most racist people on earth”.
You can’t even make this up. This is why there’s really no point trying to reason with people like you. You’re completely shameless and void of any decency. Just evil to the core of your soul.
I was responding to someone who's a Ward fan who complained about Hatton's use of dirty tactics. Funnily enough he never seems to like white fighters, even though he likes black fighters who may do things he finds fault with in whites.
I'm not saying black Americans play the race card too much, even if they do. I'm saying you're racist ****s too much and others should start calling you out on it more. **** all of you entitled ****s that feel we owe you something. You're an evil **** yourself. Can't believe you think you're on the right side of the argument when you think it's acceptable to defend black people being racist to others when I clearly said I wouldn't stand for the opposite. Anyways I'm putting you on ignore, never want to engage with the likes of you again. Good ****ing riddance.
I equated Hatton and Ward for using the same dirty tactics. I didn't ever say they had the same styles. I said I didn't like their styles cos they're ugly to watch. Pay attention to what is being said you mongoloid. Trying to equate them in anyway is the problem you neanderthal. I know your skull is thicker than a pure human but how hard is that for you to understand? There’s no point in comparing ward and Hatton other than to try and deflect and push some reverse racism bulls hit. This thread is not about people trashing Hatton for his supposedly dirty tactics, this thread is about trashing him for being a piece of schit sore loser trying to blame the ref instead of taking his loss to Floyd like a man. I’m starting to think though, maybe it’s not his fault because maybe he just can’t help it. Maybe he was just born to be a pathetic excuse maker who has to blame others for own failures. Seems as if it’s the culture he was raised in.
And I don't tend to ever make things about race but I'm ****ing sick of the barely veiled racism of pro-black people. Black Americans are the most racist people on Earth and is rightly looked upon shamefully by the rest of the world for their ****ty behaviour. It's not all of you but it's a large majority, hell if they don't think like you do you call them Uncle Tom's and the like. This is well documented by other black people. Also I don't like drinking much so no i wasn't drunk. You've got reading comprehension issues and a stick up your ass.Lol wow. “Bu bu you blacks always play the race card............now I know I just played it but that’s not a contradiction because I don’t tend to talk about race, it’s just that you blacks in America are the most racist people on earth”.
You can’t even make this up. This is why there’s really no point trying to reason with people like you. You’re completely shameless and void of any decency. Just evil to the core of your soul.
Don’t know about costing him the fight, but The referee being overly intrusive, putting Hatton at a disadvantage was something I think most noticed and spoke on.
Some refs will be stricter than others on certain things, and you have to adjust. It's not like Hatton wasn't allowed near Mayweather. Mayweather got the better of those inside moments more often than not.
You were probably drunk when you wrote this yesterday. Hell, you’re probably drunk already this morning lol.
I’ve already posted proof of you equating Hatton with ward you glow in the dark ghoul. Ward has absolutely nothing to do with this discussion. Hatton and ward are two completely different class of fighter. You don’t have to like Hatton to be a ward fan and nothing you see will give credence to that BS.
You're right that this is about race though. People like you are completely obsessed with race and make everything racial. Then you have the nerve to try and project that obsession with race on blacks who call it out. You’re the ultimate cowards.
“LDBC this LDBC that”. Name the posters here who claim to be LDBC? The posters here who talk about the LDBC aren’t even black. Like I’ve said, “LDBC” is nothing but a code word for all black people.
Again, ward has nothing to do with this thread and was only brought up by people like you who have a racial agenda. Nobody here has said that they hate Hatton because he’s dirty. That whole “the people who say they hate Hatton because he’s dirty are ward fans” argument is completely made up. Hatton isn’t being called out for being dirty he’s being called out for being a sore loser and making weak excuses. He tried to get rough with Floyd and it didn’t work. It wasn’t the ref’s fault. Floyd was able to do much damage on the inside and Hatton had the same opportunities but he wasn’t good enough. Playing the race card makes you look even more weak and pathetic than Hatton.
Yes because ward fought everybody exactly the same as kessler.
The are the same people who throw around IQ scores lol.
I equated Hatton and Ward for using the same dirty tactics. I didn't ever say they had the same styles. I said I didn't like their styles cos they're ugly to watch. Pay attention to what is being said you mongoloid. And I don't tend to ever make things about race but I'm ****ing sick of the barely veiled racism of pro-black people. Black Americans are the most racist people on Earth and is rightly looked upon shamefully by the rest of the world for their ****ty behaviour. It's not all of you but it's a large majority, hell if they don't think like you do you call them Uncle Tom's and the like. This is well documented by other black people. Also I don't like drinking much so no i wasn't drunk. You've got reading comprehension issues and a stick up your ass.
I can't STAND Bayless! He bends over BACKWARDS for Floyd??? Holy sht someone needs to look at his account beofre and after the Maidana fight...
Does this guy REALLY look unbiased???
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/05/01/19/28360DF900000578-3064561-image-a-8_1430504244000.jpg
https://a.espncdn.com/photo/2014/0913/box_a_mayweatherbite_kH_600x600.jpg
https://i0.wp.com/thaboxingvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Kenny-Bayless.jpg?resize=300%2C210
Yeah, Kenny's a bad one isn't he? Watching him fret over Wilder like a mother hen was hilarious, my girl and I couldn't stop laughing.
Quit playing dumb. It's not a straw man. You're adopting the big Dunn approach to posting in which you pretend you don't see things which everyone else does.I’m not playing, I’m straight up calling you out for being a liar. You must be dumb for blatantly lying when the posts are still here to be read.
I wouldn’t even say that Hatton was a “dirty” fighter. He just wasn’t an elite fighter with elite skills. Floyd beat him with skills and out wrestled him.
We see serious cases of favouritism from refs all the time. Beyliss was clearly biased against Fury in his latest win. And this is far from a dig at America, some of the very worst have come from British soil.
Cortez was clearly biased in favour of Floyd, Hatton is rightfully angered he wasn't allowed to fight inside. He wasn't allowed to do what he did best. He was never going to win that fight. Im a big Ricky Hatton fan but Ricky was never at his best at 147 and was not on Floyd's level. And Hatton knows this.
Just would of been nice to let Ricky give it everything he had on the biggest night of his Boxing life rather than being bum rushed by Cortez everytime he got near Floyd.
A good summary
Agree.
Very good fight and the build up was great also.
I remember watching it live at my brothers house.
Floyd Mayweather was on edge before the fight, Hatton was at his absolute peak 'There has not really been a fighter who attacks the body like Hatton since him' Hatton was like a tidal wave of violence.
On a personal level that was one of Floyd Mayweather biggest wins 'You could see this in his actions after the fight, crying in hysterics etc'.
Before that fight Mayweather in my opinion was not a Gobal star 'But in the space of two fights Hatton & Del La Hoya he effected took over boxing'.
He was right in that fight Ricky Hatton, I have never bought into the myth that he was being beaten from start to finish 'I am not sure what the score cards are? But it just always seemed like a very close fight to me'.
Note: Just checked around for score-cards, I had Mayweather just by watching the fight? At-least 2 rounds up at the time of the stoppage.
Cortez intervened too much, broke them too soon.
But lol at Hatton of all people crying that hes getting fouled on the inside, that is like his entire style and that was the entire Kostya fight.
Hatton only knows one style and he was just caught off guard that Floyd would be the superior inside fighter, just one dimension to floyd's over all game was better than Hatton's only dimension.
Hatton always had a glaring flaw that he didnt do much to correct, he would walk directly foward in a straight line, squared up to get inside on every opponent. No head movement, much to Floyd Sr's disappointment "Move your damn head" when he coached Hatton for Pacquaio. Vs any fighter with big power that is a death sentence and we seen Manny Spark him out. Floyd almost couldnt miss the right with Hatton coming it, it just took 10 rounds to get him out of there, he was lucky Floyd had busted hands.
So? That was his biggest fight up to that point and he clinched 80 times I think it was counted, mauling and fouling all fight. . So it's part of his style, he was involved in countless other ugly fights too. If I got a pound for every time I heard 'it's up to the opponent to adapt' I'd be a millionaire, but when a brit comes and does it to your hero suddenly its a disgraceful style and the ref was right to break it up and its not real boxing . As I said before at least Hatton wasn't planting headbutts elbows and low blows in there too like ward.Whats the point in lying like this though? Seriously? The bolded is the fake straw man position that you lie and try to project on me and other blacks but here’s what I and others have actually said
Floyd did much more damage on the inside than Hatton did. He broke Hatton down with body shots which is what enabled the knockout.
It wasn't Cortez that stopped Hatton from fighting his fight, it was Floyd who stopped him. Floyd didn’t need Cortez to muffle Hatton’s roughhousing because his forearm did that just fine lol. He would stick the elbow/forearm in Hatton’s face as he tried to maul him which rendered Hatton ineffective. Hatton wasn’t able to do anything inside against Floyd. You should be thankful for Cortez breaking them up as much as he did because it made the fight much more entertaining. All Hatton was aiming to do was to muck the fight up and make it a wrestling match instead of a boxing match. He basically landed no clean punches he n the entire fight. Y’all just refuse to give Floyd his just due and we all know why.
So why can’t you just keep it honest and respond to what I and others have actually said, instead of lying and creating this fake straw man argument just so you can whine and imply that black people are racist?
It was a competitive fight, but Mayweather was also winning on the inside up close 'People where shocked at the time with this dimension of his game'.
Good fight and Hatton was right in it at the time of the stoppage, only two rounds behind maybe etc
It was clear that Floyd Mayweather beat Hatton 'When a fighter is truly beaten, they will question themselves and doubt their methods' THAT is exactly what happened to Ricky Hatton 'He should of never of left Billy Graham'.
Agree.
Very good fight and the build up was great also.
I remember watching it live at my brothers house.
That wasn't a good win for floyd. Because ref didn't let Hatton fight like he had in all previous fights. So Floyd got preferential treatment.
Everyone who had fought Hatton and lost to him watching Floyd v Hatton will be thinking life's not fair, the ref didn't protect them against Hatton like Cortez did with floyd.
Hey ****tard just in case you didn't get it. Ward and Hatton are both dirty fighters with ugly styles, that's all I've ever said here. They both headbutted, low blowed, rabbit punched, excessively clinched and even elbowed fighters on occasion. That is something that they've both done regularly. They do not have the same styles, I never said that. You made that up entirely so fess up and admit you're wrong you ****ing crybaby. You were probably drunk when you wrote this yesterday. Hell, you’re probably drunk already this morning lol.
I’ve already posted proof of you equating Hatton with ward you glow in the dark ghoul. Ward has absolutely nothing to do with this discussion. Hatton and ward are two completely different class of fighter. You don’t have to like Hatton to be a ward fan and nothing you see will give credence to that BS.
Plus it is absolutely to do with race, LDBC posters are ****ing racist, there's no denying that as that is their hallmark.
You've got ****ing issues, putting words in my mouth that I didn't say and denying the plainly obvious. If someone say hates Floyd Mayweather's running and ducking but absolutely loves Nicolino Locche for doing it, I'll call them a ****ing hypocrite and a racist because that's what it'd really boil down to.You're right that this is about race though. People like you are completely obsessed with race and make everything racial. Then you have the nerve to try and project that obsession with race on blacks who call it out. You’re the ultimate cowards.
“LDBC this LDBC that”. Name the posters here who claim to be LDBC? The posters here who talk about the LDBC aren’t even black. Like I’ve said, “LDBC” is nothing but a code word for all black people.
Again, ward has nothing to do with this thread and was only brought up by people like you who have a racial agenda. Nobody here has said that they hate Hatton because he’s dirty. That whole “the people who say they hate Hatton because he’s dirty are ward fans” argument is completely made up. Hatton isn’t being called out for being dirty he’s being called out for being a sore loser and making weak excuses. He tried to get rough with Floyd and it didn’t work. It wasn’t the ref’s fault. Floyd was able to do much damage on the inside and Hatton had the same opportunities but he wasn’t good enough. Playing the race card makes you look even more weak and pathetic than Hatton.
'wards style wasn't to constantly smother and maul his opponents' ermm what? Watch kessler v wardYes because ward fought everybody exactly the same as kessler.
The are the same people who throw around IQ scores lol.