Hatton: "Mayweather Gave Me a New Lease on Life"

[v.cassiusali@ya]

ugly old floyd trained the ballerina guzman and the girlie bloats.

let's see what ugly old floyd can give to hatton.

[Mayfeather]

He will certainly help hatton knock out Paulie

[Weebler I]

"I was up at 6am this morning, Floyd came to my house and I ran five miles around Gee Cross in Hyde with dumb bells in my hands. Floyd was side by side with me all the way - in a Range Rover I might add - saying, 'Come on, jab, jab, step off, one-two!'. It was hard because it's very hilly where I live but because it was new I got a buzz from it.

"As soon as we got back to my house he jumped out the car and we did a little bit of sparring.

"I've got to get used to him calling the shots and the different combinations, plus I need to get to know him as a person and as a coach. I took him with me to the Manchester City versus Liverpool game yesterday, we had a meal and I think he enjoyed himself."

Hatton admitted he should have changed trainers sooner, and revealed that only his friendship with Graham preventing him from doing so. "Billy thought he could continue training me but I had to be man enough to say no because it just wasn't possible," he said. "A lot of the lads have left his gym - including our Matthew [Hatton's brother] - because of Billy's injuries.

"There was only me left and he couldn't even do that in the end. It was the toughest decision of my life to leave Billy but it was the best one. They were putting needles in his hands to numb the pain so he could take a training session.

"When I hit him he would say, 'You're hitting too hard', but in my mind I was thinking, 'Well you don't know because you can't feel your hands'. He was deluding himself and didn't want to admit to himself that the time had come to finish.

"Everyone was telling me to leave him earlier and I think it's clear because, slowly but surely, everyone else left him. I couldn't do it because of how I had such a close relationship with him but when Matthew left I knew I had to be a man and leave as well."

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/more_sport/article4893221.ece

[MANGLER]

It just ain't Hatton's thing to be defensive, up on his toes, stickin and movin. Takin on a new trainer who produces slick boxers sounds great for Hatton, but I don't think it'll really matter for him on fight night, especially cuz he's fightin a slick boxer. No way Hatton matches Paulie feint for feint, and jab for jab. He'll still be the same fighter.

[pugil1st]

Weebler.

Why did you re-post the same article?

[PRboxingfan]

Ricky Hatton is overjoyed with his new trainer, Floyd Mayweather Sr. He says that Mayweather has given him a new lease on life. Hatton recently split with trainer Billy Graham after an eleven-year relationship, but admits that he should have split with Graham a lot sooner. Mayweather is currently training Hatton in the UK. The two of them will arrive in Las Vegas on October 16, and finish camp for the November 22 bout with Paulie Malignaggi. [details]

If by lease he means a 10 second nap...

[Pullcounter]

Big Floyd will have him jabbing, I believe that much.

yeah, but hatton doesn't have the reach to have a truly effective jab.

more than likely floyd will work on hatton's foot movement.

[MJ406]

weather Hatton's the same fighter or not

you don't think with all the boxing knowledge Floyd Sr. has you don't think he can tweak Ricky's style at all?

[rizkybizness]

The only thing Hatton needs to lease is a time machine and ditch wack ass Graham from the get go. He might've actually been good.

[Domain]

I'd LMAO if Hatton came out of training camp fight like Floyd or Whitaker.

lol it will look like when Vargas tried to fight mayweather style with the shoulder to the cheek and trying to sleep with his shoulder! thats how funny it would look awkward too.