Two Good Fights, One Pre-Weekend Report Card

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By Cliff Rold - The weekend starts with unification and ends with a World champion facing his number one contender. [details]

[Sage84]

Completely agree with everything on the Hatton - Paulie fight. Its gonna be close! Could go either way, if both are at their best it will be a cracking fight!

[bigflip55]

i think paulie is a lil overated, the dude has got amazing skill and heart but i think he would lose to bradley and witter. i see hatton getting up for this fight and dropping paul to a ud "peeleft:

[MASSMAN]

Hatton should win it!

I normally favor the boxer, but I am not sold on Paulie. Stronger boxers make Hatton look bad (Collazo and Mayweather @ 147). Paulie doesnt have the punching power to keep people off of him. He is flash with little substance and it showed in the Cotto fight. Paulie showed heart, but almost all boxers have heart. He has fast hands, but he is a Camacho clone. Camacho was great in his prime but even he had issues with punchers who press the action like Edwin Rosario and later on with Chavez. Once these type of fighers feel their opponents power and they realize that they cant hurt their opponents, they either run or just get beat up during the second half of the fight. Mayweather had the discipline, the hand speed and the punching power to hurt Hatton, Paulie doesnt. Paulie was pressed out against the stronger Cotto and Hatton should be able to do the same.

[Motofan]

Paulie almost lost his last couple of fights on points to much worse fighters then Ricky. Ricky has only lost to the best p4p fighter in the world, while moving up in weight. Sure he has been hurt before badly, but he made it out. Paulie wont hit hard enough to hurt Ricky. If he does, then Ricky needs to retire and open a pub. But I got Ricky by UD.

[Orion]

I really like Malignaggi but theres alot of factors that make me think Hatton is gonna win, he is so aggresive and i just question if Malignaggi can keep him at bay or discourage him with his power, Hatton has lost a step but it may still be enough to beat Malignaggi.