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Hehe, ""ROFL" all you want.
Umm, watch the fight again. It looked like a natural junior middle fighting a natural junior welter. Floyd has always been naturally very lean, and it allowed him to stay at very low weights (for his frame) for a long time. And at lower weights, especially, height and reach make a world of difference.
Floyd's huge reach advantage makes Hatton HAVE to come to him, which gives Floyd a huge advantage of moving back and waiting for Hatton to come to him and slipping, jabbing, very relaxed, and of course every time Hatton did get inside, Cortez broke them immediately. Floyd has used his reach as an assest throughout his career, but it's a HUGE factor when facing an infighter who has a drastically smaller reach than you, as with Hatton.
Anyway, enough of the boxing lesson, go back to "ROFL" at stuff you don't understand.
Umm, watch the fight again. It looked like a natural junior middle fighting a natural junior welter. Floyd has always been naturally very lean, and it allowed him to stay at very low weights (for his frame) for a long time. And at lower weights, especially, height and reach make a world of difference.
Floyd's huge reach advantage makes Hatton HAVE to come to him, which gives Floyd a huge advantage of moving back and waiting for Hatton to come to him and slipping, jabbing, very relaxed, and of course every time Hatton did get inside, Cortez broke them immediately. Floyd has used his reach as an assest throughout his career, but it's a HUGE factor when facing an infighter who has a drastically smaller reach than you, as with Hatton.
Anyway, enough of the boxing lesson, go back to "ROFL" at stuff you don't understand.
Floyd has a reach advantage on everyone he faced at every weight, what's yout point then?
What does reach and height have to do with size? By your ridiculous argument Hearns was ”bigger“ than Tyson, I will keep on ROFLing, on your poor understanding of this sport.
Also I advise you to watch the fight again, to see PBF beating Hatton on the inside. Or landing a straight right and holding, or slipping under Hatton left, leaning down, offering the left side of his body to avoid any chance of left hooks to the body, holding like crazy in the earlier rounds to call Cortez's attention on holding, using his elbows, using footwork to control Hatton coming with angles (while he was still trying to come in with angles early in the fight).
That's what won him the fight (some of the above are fouls), not jabbing as you say, which he barely used until round 9, when he showed off some jabbing.
Hope you enjoyed your lesson.
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