Hatton Downplays Pacquiao's Win Over De La Hoya

[gopi11]

So he showed up at 150 by fight-time in his prior fight?

I don't have sympathy for Oscar; that is not the point. The point is knowing what happened so you can learn from it. Freddie learned from other fighters of the past when they made the same crucial mistake.

At Oscar's age, being past his prime, where he must have felt he was at in his career to have to fight Pac, and hadn't fought at 147 for such a long time, that all added up to his destruction.

Since you want learn something out of this Benny, I'll tell you what did Oscar in. It was the ....


















kangaroo meat, and don't you even dare try it! lol

I'm done here...

[bbos]

i'm sorry but beating an old oscar who has nothing anymore,no desire to win,,means nothing,,,it was different when he lost back in the late 90's...but now,it's like who cares...

ODLH was not weight drained, it was the style of fight pac imposed that made him look that way, pac's defense head movement, speed along with his counter punching took away Delahoya's jab and his left hook ( ODLH's main weapons).

Lets not forget ODLH had an all star team to prepare him for the fight, he was at 147lb for weeks, so to say he was drained is a poor excuse.

The way I envision it, hatton's one dimensional style would have been dominated by ODLH, Hatton lacks the speed and the skills required to give DLH trouble. he would have been caught by DLH's left hooks while walking in (as usual).

[Benny Leonard]

ODLH was not weight drained, it was the style of fight pac imposed that made him look that way, pac's defense head movement, speed along with his counter punching took away Delahoya's jab and his left hook ( ODLH's main weapons).

Lets not forget ODLH had an all star team to prepare him for the fight, he was at 147lb for weeks, so to say he was drained is a poor excuse.

The way I envision it, hatton's one dimensional style would have been dominated by ODLH, Hatton lacks the speed and the skills required to give DLH trouble. he would have been caught by DLH's left hooks while walking in (as usual).

Does anyone listen to Freddie Roach?

They have been like this for weeks too but it doesn't mean they are healthy

[bbos]

Does anyone listen to Freddie Roach?

roach said pac will ko hatton in 3 rounds

[Benny Leonard]

roach said pac will ko hatton in 3 rounds

Did you listen to Freddie about the Oscar fight?

He can back that up with Historical facts and personal experience with Oscar.


Why did Pac get KO'd twice and lose to a past prime Morales?
The best man one that night.

[Bogler]

Does anyone listen to Freddie Roach?

They have been like this for weeks too but it doesn't mean they are healthy

so we should take your word against the nutritionist and doctors who took care of oskie during training camp?

[fcastro1]

So he showed up at 150 by fight-time in his prior fight?

I don't have sympathy for Oscar; that is not the point. The point is knowing what happened so you can learn from it. Freddie learned from other fighters of the past when they made the same crucial mistake.

At Oscar's age, being past his prime, where he must have felt he was at in his career to have to fight Pac, and hadn't fought at 147 for such a long time, that all added up to his destruction.

what im saying is that making 147 was not a big deal for delahoya because in his prior fight he had to make 150. the fact is he messed up his training by making weight far too early which shrunk his stomach, so he was unable to rehydrate properly.

fighting at 147 was possible for delahoya but he messed up his training, why should pacs victory be degraded because of the fault of his opponent?

[Dave Rado]

all this **** about "this fighter was not himself during the fight blah blah, he was not 100% blah blah" if thats your excuse then we should say tszu was not himself in that fight, or corrales was not himself when fmj fought him he was weight drained etc etc. pavlik and margarito were not themselves when they fought and lost? or leonard was not himself when he fought duran or duran was not himself when he fought hearns?. is that the excuse of a great boxer or a fan of the sport? a fighter looses because the other guy is the better man that night, they are professionals and earn a lot more than we do and has hired professionals to look out for their well-being before and during the fight. if they screwed up, dont make excuses people. a lose is a lose, they committed a tactical error and they should pay for it and be man enough to admit defeat.

A loss is a loss, no excuses. It was DLH's own fault that he was weight drained. The man has absolutely no one to blame but himself. He deserved to lose, 100%. But the point is, you can't judge how well Pac will do against anyone else at 140 and above based on that fight, because that version of DLH was a big decline on even the version who fought Forbes. Pac fought a great fight that night, but he wasn't really tested.

[Dave Rado]

I don't buy this Pacman was heavier the night of the fight bs. We all got our own set of eyes, Oscar was the heavier guy out there, if you don't believe me, watch the fight again...

Are you really saying they used faulty scales?

[Dave Rado]

I think Angelo Dundee and Nacho has answered this issue anyway.
If you think you know better than the trainers? be my guest.
Again i reiterate Hatton is in no position to criticize anyone competing at that division....specially a virtual superfeatherweight who jumped two division with enough balls and confidence to take that risk. If Ricky performs an impressive win against a junior middleweight .....then he can talk.

I don't think he was criticizing Manny at all, I think he was just explaining one of the reasons why he feels confident of winning on May 2. Of course he's more likely to lose in the opinions of most people, but of course he's got to go into the fight believing he can win. And to say that DLH was weight drained is not a criticism of Manny at all, most boxing experts believe he was weight drained, including Freddie Roach.