Malignaggi: "Ricky Hatton Doesn't Have The Talent"

[larryx]

Hatton's only advantage over Paulie is strength. But that will be neutralized by the jab and footwork. Hatton's face will be ground beef by the time the fight is over. If Paulie can go 12 rounds with Cotto with a broken eye and jaw, what is Hatton going to do. Paulie by a wide-UD or late stoppage due to cuts from clean punches.

hattons footwork is better than paulies and hatton is faster

[Pullcounter]

LAS VEGAS – World-class junior welterweight Paulie “The Magic Man” Malignaggi (25-1, 5 KOs) took some time off from his Las Vegas TRAINING CAMP to offer his views on subject ranging from his November 22nd showdown against Ricky Hatton to abdicating his IBF title and a lot in between. [details]

hatton has talent, but he's been costing on his mma talent for a while.

[sportsplato]

hattons footwork is better than paulies and hatton is faster

No way. Hatton has a limited workrate and his defense has always been terrible. Taking nothing from him but I would have picked Paulie to beat him before Floyd did. The matchup is all wrong for him. Only way it could be worse is if Paulie was taller than him.

[Squabbles94806]

Malinaggi....



I didn't realize that Malinaggi can really box. I don't think he has power, but his boxing skills are tremendous. Ricky Hatton is a scrappy fighter, so Paul Malinaggi will have to box him into a circle.

I'll say this though....if Miguel Cotto couldn't knock Paul Malinaggi out, then there's no way that Hatton would knock him out....

I'm giving this fight to Paulie Malinaggi, by unanimous decsion.

[The Gully Gad]

hattons footwork is better than paulies and hatton is faster

Not sure he has better footwork larry and both are quick but Hatton maul's his victims and always look messy in doin so..
Still i think the Hitman shall prevail..
Wonder what haircut paulie is thinking of in this one?
A mullet anyone?

[Chunk..]

1 defeat in 45 outings is hardly a sign of no talent.

[Dirk Diggler UK]

At the same time, people also have to stop using bull**** triangle theories regarding the Cotto fight. Yeah Paulie performed admirably, no doubt but just cos Cotto couldn't stop him, doesnt mean Hatton wont.

Hatton is a much better 140lb fighter than Cotto. Cotto had to be carried out of the weigh in for the Malignaggi fight because he was so drained. You could see he was sluggish and slow in his performance, at one point Paulie even stunned him with a right hand! Hatton is quicker, will cut down the ring more efficiently than Cotto did and put much more pressure on Paulie than Cotto did.

[Dirk Diggler UK]

1 defeat in 45 outings is hardly a sign of no talent.

"BUT DATZ COZ EE ONLY FAWT DEM BUMZ OVA IN EUROPELAND. LOLZ PWN"

Just to save some time for the inevitable response.

[Kris Silver]

"You can't teach dogs new tricks."

Erm, yes you can Paul, and the saying is you can't teach old dogs new tricks.

"He can teach him a few things"

Wow, got a saying wrong then contradicted it, what a couple of lines, lol.

I'm hoping for a good fight but think Hattons going to take this relatively easily, just a gut feeling. Mayweathers been on Hattons TV program in the UK lately live, and christ how many drugs has that guy taken, he can barely string a sentence together. No wonder he's going on about slowing Ricky down. Ricky's always waiting for him to finish an instruction.

Needless to say I still have concerns about the efficiency of Hattons training, hopefully the 2nd trainer is involved a lot and their not undermining each other too much, otherwise you'll see a Khan esk confused fighter in there.

[pana78]

gay

paulie is a *** ass guido that needs to disapear like prince nasim did. When he came out with hair extensions i lost all respect for him. He was trying to look like whoopi goldberg. Whoopi his ass ricky