My Final 2 Floyd-Hatton-Cotto Thoughts!

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PART 1

Honestly the more times I rewatch that fight the better it gets. It seems like there's more action in the fight every single time I watch it. Hatton certainly gave a game effort and proved that he is truly an elite P4P guy. I would love to see him fight someone like Diaz. That would be special.

As for Floyd, there are somethings that stood out to me. Everyone says that Floyd is HBO's darling but there is no way you can say that if you watch his fights. They pretty much rip him in every single fight. One thing that really made me mad about this fight and alot of Floyd's fights are that the HBO team always assumes that Floyd is losing if he's on the ropes or if its toe to toe. I cant believe that have watched Floyd for all these years and cant see that he is just like Ali, Toney, & RJ among others who are great boxers that love to fight off the ropes. Floyd does it all the time. Just because he is on the ropes doesnt mean that he is losing or doesnt want to be there. Everytime they went to the ropes you would hear Lampley go off about how Floyd doesnt want to be there and how Hatton is killing him. Floyd did want to be there and was doing some great things. He blocked or rolled alot of those shots and was firing back with accurate counters. Then you hear a guy like Lederman say that Floyd is showing no lateral movement. Lederman was giving Hatto all the early rounds because he said that Floyd never moved to the side but just stood there and let Hatton trap him? What are you talking about? Why do you assume that Floyd wants to move the whole fight? The reason why he just let Hatton come in and didnt step to the side is because he wanted to go toe to toe with him and thought that he could handle himself and wear Hatton down and it did work.

Its so ****** because the HBO team are always like the last guys to catch on. They never catch on to whats happening until its obvious and Floyd is dominating. Well how is he doing so well now if Hatton was destroying him so much? It makes them look dumb because they talk about Hatton so much and then Floyd starts taking over and it makes it look like it came out of nowhere when really Floyd was doing well all along. After Lederman said that comment about the lateral movement then you hear Merchant trying to jump in and be smart. He jumps in and says I think that is happening because Hatton's speed is surprising him. He then says that Floyd has been fighting guys like Baldomire who would be 30 yards up the track against Hatton. The way he said Baldy's name was all dragged out like he was clowing Floyd for fighting guys like him and now he's in with a real guy that is kicking his ass. No Merchant, that had nothing to do with it. Floyd was letting Hatton come in like that because he thought he was able to outfight him in the inside.

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PART 2

The other thing that was clear was that Floyd was filling out. The way his body looked in this fight compared to the Baldy fight is not even close. I was glad when Floyd fought Oscar because I said that I thought that the move up to 154 would help Floyd's body fill-in to WW quicker when he comes back down. Now Im still not sold because part of it maybe that he was standing next to a short 140 pounder but he still did look much wider & thicker across the shoulders and had big biceps. In the Zab & Baldy fights he looked like a flat board. There was a thread on here the other day by BiggaPoppa where a British guy named it something like "eating your own words is never tasty". In that article he talked about how he was watching the fight on TV and he called his boxing buddy who knows everything about boxing and has been around forever. His friend talked about how different Floyd looks now. He said that he has really growned into the weight and looks much bigger then he has in the past. I totally agree. He'll never be a big full blown WW but Ive always said that if he could even get to 150 then it would be a major differnce.

I honestly believe that Floyd and his camp are just like me in that they were really worried if Floyd could hold up against a big WW and they didnt want to lose just because they were too small. Its a legitimate reason that no one wants to hear but Floyd looked like a little boy. Now the WW's have to worry. A fight with Floyd would be much harder now then it was a year and a half ago. He's gained weight and is also stronger. In this fight he was going against a 140 pounder but you could tell he still had some pop. People who think he cant hurt Cotto, Margarito, or Williams are flat out wrong. If he sits down on his punches then he has alot of pop e****ally if he throws in combinations. I also believe that his sparring is paying off. I honestly wondered after Floyds last 2 fights if his sparring was hurting him. By that I mean I was thinking that his sparring partners were too big and it made Floyd pot shot in sparring so thats what he did in the real fights combined with his small body. I still think it was true. Guys like Kofi are big tough monsters. Now I think its one of those things where it hurts you in the short term but really helps you in the long term. We dont get to see Floyd's sparring but I bet anything that he's way more offensive aggressive in sparring now then he was a year ago. I bet he stands and fights more now with guys like Jantuah & Baldy then he wouldve a year or 2 ago because he's filling into the weight and getting stronger.

This is why I honestly believe that the Cotto fight will happend now. If not in this next fight then it will happened in 10-12 months as long as cotto wins his next fight. Im telling you that Floyd's team and himself is not going to have that same fear anymore because of his weight gain. He's also in his 30's now and your going to gain more weight after that. Floyd is a fighter plain & simple. He'll try to do other things but sooner or later he will get that itch again and he's only going to want super fights for huge money. Thats Cotto. We all know that Floyd is a workout freak and he's not going to want to stop training just like that and when he goes back he will want to fight again. I truly believe that a year and a half to 2 years ago guys like Margarito wouldve gave Floyd hell because they were just too big. There still a pretty good ways bigger then him but Floyd is much better off now then he was then and it would be a totally different fight now. He can **** with those guys now and he can hurt them alot more then people think