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Hang on. Ricky Hatton put on weight to come in as a fully-fledged Welterweight against Collazo, and, as we all know, you can absorb a punch better when your frame is heftier. Collazo rocked him and, let's be honest, if Ricky hadn't chose to hold on there was a distinct possibility he could've been knocked out.
So he'll go down to around Light-Welter when he enters the ring against Floyd...who, for my money, can punch harder than can Collazo.
Does anyone else see a perilous eventuality maybe emerging here? Obviously you are more adept at slipping and dodging punches when you are lighter and consequently quicker, but Hatton eats a boatload of punches to walk in, even at the lighter weight...
If Hatton comes in light, he is still slower than Floyd, but weaker and less durable. He would get muscled, mauled and KO'd.
If Hatton comes in heavy, he is still slower than Floyd. and would get badly outboxed.
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it dont matter what color you are if all you do is hold and hold and hold and hold and hold and hold and hold and hold and hold instead of box i dont want to see it a true boxing fan who knows boxing dont want to see it get real whoever you are i just call it like i see it . bernard hopkins held winky wright the hole damn fight i turned the **** off i cant watch stuff like that its not boxing its
and thats all ricky hatton will do floyd is faster smarter the better boxer and stronger all ricky hatton is going to do is HOLD ON FOR DEAR LIFE ricky hatton is
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Hatton claims to be this exciting fighter. He has fought three consecutive high-profile fights in the USA. He is a media-friendly, English-speaking, white fighter. With top-flight promotion and management. And he is on the premier boxing network.it dont matter what color you are if all you do is hold and hold and hold and hold and hold and hold and hold and hold and hold instead of box i dont want to see it a true boxing fan who knows boxing dont want to see it get real whoever you are i just call it like i see it . bernard hopkins held winky wright the hole damn fight i turned the **** off i cant watch stuff like that its not boxing its and thats all ricky hatton will do floyd is faster smarter the better boxer and stronger all ricky hatton is going to do is HOLD ON FOR DEAR LIFE ricky hatton is
If Ricky Hatton was good to watch, how come all of his fans in America are still, err, umm, IMPORTED FROM MANCHESTER??Comment
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what kind of bull**** is this . what is this rocky when he fought the russian. let me tell you something if every proffesional boxer took that ****** test every last one would have close to the same results anyone can load up and punch as hard as they can on a heavy bag this is ****** itsBoxing nicknames are odd things. 'Prince' Naseem Hamed wasn’t really royalty, yet there was something 'Marvellous' about Marvin Hagler. So what about our very own Ricky 'The Hitman' Hatton? Is his title the stuff of fantasy or reality?
Thanks to the work of a team of impact engineers from the University of Manchester, Hatton has shown that his moniker is as real as his world championship belts.
Acting on a request to find out just how hard Ricky hits, the team, led by Dr Qingming Li, set about making a test area for the boxing champ, which meant sticking a force sensor to something Hatton knows only too well – a 30kg punch bag. The sensor sent data to a laptop, where specialised software measured and analysed the results.
That result was pretty impressive to say the least. According to the study, Ricky punches with a massive 400kg of instantaneous force.
That’s just under half a tonne of power cracking into his opponent’s jaw, an amount that Dr Li described as "“quite astonishing".
The punch hits home and the data is collected
When you bear in mind that the average man in the street with no boxing experience has an impact of about 40kg, that means Ricky is ten times harder than most of us. And if that didn’t make the point, his punching force is also twice that of the power in the average Premiership footballer’s kick!
Fast and furious
Boxing isn’t just about power though. It’s all very well if you can punch with the power of an elephant if you’re too slow to land the punch. Anyone who’s seen Hatton fight will be pretty sure that isn’t the case, but thanks to the engineers, his punching speed has been pinned down too.
Ricky makes some repairs to the bag
Using video technology normally put to work tracking projectiles in laboratory conditions, the experts clocked his average speed at 25 miles per hour, with a top shot of 32 mph – that was one of his knock-out left hooks, in case you wondered.
That means his reaction time is less than a tenth of a second. To put it in layman’s terms, he’d have you on your back before you even knew he’d moved!
And don’t think you’d have chance to get a punch in first. The average bloke can only manage to move at about half of Hatton’s speed, with a maximum of around 15mph.
See the Hitman's punch in slow motion
An indisputable hit man
Unfortunately, because of Ricky’s training schedule ahead of his fight with Jose Castillo, the researchers couldn’t do the tests under scientific conditions and the boxer didn’t have his hands bandaged like he would have in the ring, but even so, they’re striking results and the scientists are eager to make them official when Hatton returns from Vegas.
Ricky, Dr Li and the team analyse the results
For Ricky, it was a welcome distraction from his preparations and an enjoyable experience.
"It was my first visit to the University of Manchester and I was impressed with the facilities there," he said.
"It was great working with the experts and the technology, and for me, it was really interesting to see how fast and how hard I can hit."
And was it hard enough to be called the Hitman? Definitely; after all, with power and speed like that at his disposal, would you like to argue otherwise?
Story courtesy of BBC Manchester
http://www.bbc.co.uk/manchester/cont..._feature.shtml just like hatton
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Ricky Hatton has given Dios Dominicano a new lease of life here on boxingscene, he's a great bloke Ricky, ain't he.Comment
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hattons weight for floyd fight...
they say hes going to come in as a light welterweight at like 140 pounds but doesnt he weigh like 148-149 come fight time in his light welterweight bouts??? i'm confused. how much weighed he during the fight with collazo??Comment
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