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By Clive Bernath: Billy Graham, the trainer of Ricky Hatton has blamed a good old fashioned English fried breakfast for the Hitman’s poor performance in out-pointing Luis Collazo on his welterweight debut in May 2006.
The undefeated 29 year-old, faces pound4pound king Floyd Mayweather Jnr for the American’s WBC welterweight crown at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas on Saturday(Dec 8) night.
Many experts believe the natural power and pressure fighting tactics Hatton ferociously displays at 140lbs will not prove to be so effective at 147lbs. But Graham insists if Team Mayweather and American boxing writers base their opinion on the Collazo fight they are very much mistaken.
Talking to Eddie Goldman on SecondsOut Radio about Hatton not being so effective at welterweight Billy Graham said: “I’ve got inside information and I know exactly what happened in that fight(Collazo/Hatton). I know the exact reasons, he(Ricky) put on far too much weight, Ricky put on far too much weight from the scales until the actual fight. He was carrying too much access weight and was sluggish. I know the reasons for it, plus he was fighting a big southpaw and he bulked up wrong.
“He(Ricky) carbed up wrong and thats the last fight he had that silly fried breakfast before a fight. I really do hope that the Mayweather camp and you American press guys are what you are going on(basing opinion).”
Kerry Kayes, Team Hatton’s Strength and Conditioning coach elaborated more on Graham’s statement Regarding the weight for the Colazo fight, saying: “Once Ricky makes the weight we’ve got to carb him up. We want to carb him up with clean nutrition, low calories and nutrients that will give him sustained energy for the next work load he’s gonna put on.
“It always been well publicized that Ricky loves what we call in England a fried breakfast. We;ve always been against it but he’s always had it. And because he weighed in at 147lbs instead of 140lbs and then he had his fried breakfast, we then we had to give him energy for the fight He(Ricky) weighed too heavy in the fight. He(Ricky) also admitted that he had food in the day that was fatty food. So Ricky learnt a massive lesson there. And with the empty calories that he ate it was giving him weight on his body but with no nutritional value which did him no good in the fight. The other important factor in that Ricky only had five weeks to prepare for the Collazo fight.”
LOL. That is ridiculous.
What did they blame the Mayweather loss on again? His shoes or hair or something?
The undefeated 29 year-old, faces pound4pound king Floyd Mayweather Jnr for the American’s WBC welterweight crown at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas on Saturday(Dec 8) night.
Many experts believe the natural power and pressure fighting tactics Hatton ferociously displays at 140lbs will not prove to be so effective at 147lbs. But Graham insists if Team Mayweather and American boxing writers base their opinion on the Collazo fight they are very much mistaken.
Talking to Eddie Goldman on SecondsOut Radio about Hatton not being so effective at welterweight Billy Graham said: “I’ve got inside information and I know exactly what happened in that fight(Collazo/Hatton). I know the exact reasons, he(Ricky) put on far too much weight, Ricky put on far too much weight from the scales until the actual fight. He was carrying too much access weight and was sluggish. I know the reasons for it, plus he was fighting a big southpaw and he bulked up wrong.
“He(Ricky) carbed up wrong and thats the last fight he had that silly fried breakfast before a fight. I really do hope that the Mayweather camp and you American press guys are what you are going on(basing opinion).”
Kerry Kayes, Team Hatton’s Strength and Conditioning coach elaborated more on Graham’s statement Regarding the weight for the Colazo fight, saying: “Once Ricky makes the weight we’ve got to carb him up. We want to carb him up with clean nutrition, low calories and nutrients that will give him sustained energy for the next work load he’s gonna put on.
“It always been well publicized that Ricky loves what we call in England a fried breakfast. We;ve always been against it but he’s always had it. And because he weighed in at 147lbs instead of 140lbs and then he had his fried breakfast, we then we had to give him energy for the fight He(Ricky) weighed too heavy in the fight. He(Ricky) also admitted that he had food in the day that was fatty food. So Ricky learnt a massive lesson there. And with the empty calories that he ate it was giving him weight on his body but with no nutritional value which did him no good in the fight. The other important factor in that Ricky only had five weeks to prepare for the Collazo fight.”
LOL. That is ridiculous.What did they blame the Mayweather loss on again? His shoes or hair or something?
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