Everything he suggested Hatton do was the truth. As we saw after the fight when Merchant spoke to Roach, Freddie spent the last 2 months studying Hatton's lunging weakness (what Floyd Jr. originally exploited), and broke it down to a trigger of Hatton ****ing back on his shots.
Manny stopped Ricky so effortlessly it was like he was mind reading, and that might be all he had to with Hatton using no strategy as usual. The little bit of listening Ricky did do, was good. Using his jab and the slight head movement on the way in into a clinch and infighting instead of his wild disaster.
Ricky became reckless way too soon, and it doesn't help that he has 0 punch resistance when it comes to that lunging in he does. Even feather fisted Paulie stunned him in their fight. It's such a bad habit to get anyone to break when you see how quickly he goes to it, but I guess Sr. deserves backlash because of his overly harsh treatment of Roach, however I don't lay this on him.
Manny stopped Ricky so effortlessly it was like he was mind reading, and that might be all he had to with Hatton using no strategy as usual. The little bit of listening Ricky did do, was good. Using his jab and the slight head movement on the way in into a clinch and infighting instead of his wild disaster.
Ricky became reckless way too soon, and it doesn't help that he has 0 punch resistance when it comes to that lunging in he does. Even feather fisted Paulie stunned him in their fight. It's such a bad habit to get anyone to break when you see how quickly he goes to it, but I guess Sr. deserves backlash because of his overly harsh treatment of Roach, however I don't lay this on him.
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