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By Patrick Kehoe - Can Ricky Hatton really beat Floyd Mayweather Jr., the Roger Federer, the Tiger Woods of professional boxing? The preening prince from Michigan may not be as commercially palatable or short listed for mass media consumption like the reigning monarchs of tennis and golf, and yet, the primary descriptor used to sum up his over all abilities is the same as those two: Genius. How does Ricky Hatton, a fighter, a champion, even if an undefeated one, beat the embodiment of fistic genius in his time, the heir to Roy Jones and Sugar Ray Leonard? Ignore reality, get down to basics and make a brawl out of it are three of the normal clichés that usually spew forth at this juncture of speculative inquiry. [details]
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Good read, Patrick. I'm picking Hatton too (I think that's what your saying). The sheer number of "expert" prognosticators picking an easy win for PBF makes me surer than ever that Hatton will win by knockout (I actually envision a TKO in the 9th followed immediately by a Bowe-Golota style riot.).Last edited by NachoMan; 12-07-2007, 11:02 AM. -
It wont be an easy fight for Floyd in the beggining but he will adjustComment
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"Everyone in boxing knows that Floyd Mayweather is a boxer who can battle and Ricky Hatton’s a battler who can box. Just as everyone understands that does not make them equal. True, vive la difference!
The larger question remains: who will be fighting their fight during the decisive moments when fatigue and function begin to fail... the winner?
Sounds just like a cliché."
................excellent point, but I beleive we subconsciously know alreadyComment
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Good read, Patrick. I'm picking Hatton too (I think that's what your saying). The sheer number of "expert" prognosticators picking an easy win for PBF makes me surer than ever that Hatton will win by knockout (I actually envision a TKO in the 9th followed immediately by a Bowe-Golota style riot.)
++ No, I'm not picking Hatton... I'm a neutral in this one and that requires too great a leap of faith for me... I do expect something unusual to happen in this one for some reason... otherwise it's a straight line to Mayweather and Cotto, which is what HBO have been planning for two years now...
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Short of Hatton cutting or Mayweather’s hand fracturing, the contest will have moments where Ricky Hatton’s brutish body hitting will turn to the Mayweather head, and then, we will know the final framing of this contest of undefeated champions.Hmm. However subtle, I sure got the impression that you were imagining a Hatton victory. These are only excerpts, of course, but you seemed to suggest that the outcome would be largely determined on how much Hatton can impose his style during the fight. Later you pose the rhetorical question "how can the fight not go there?"; suggesting that this fight will eventually be fought at a pace/distance to Hatton's liking. I was reading to much into it guess. Thanks for the clarification.Take away Mayweather’s measuring of distances and he’s forced into a protracted struggle and all boxing fans know that is exactly where resistance melts away, if it is meant to. Can the fight not go there?Last edited by NachoMan; 12-07-2007, 12:18 PM.Comment
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