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Very glad to hear that, though I must admit the sight of it all was very scary at the time. He hit his head very hard on the floor.
Roy Jones only took one punch before getting bounced off the floor by Tarver, but few deny it took a lot out of him. The act of getting knocked out so violently is traumatizing, not just to a fighter's confidence, but increases the odds that it will happen once again. Hatton is a broken egg that won't be reassembled.I don't think the Pac fight will have take much out of him, it was over very quickly. The Mayweather fight was more drawn out and draining but tbh I think he's fine.
Bradley isn't a huge puncher but he has the skill to take advantage of Hatton's defensive flaws. Couple that with his trainer instability and I doubt he'd be ablet to come up with a gameplan to beat him. Marquez is another stylistic mismatch that would yield a similar result.I'd say Bradley then Marquez would be his path back.
He can throw, but he's never been a big puncher. He's the kind of guy who has to put himself in his opponent's wheelhouse to get his work done and doing so against punchers will likely earn him another trip to the canvas.you're forgetting that he can also throw.
Taking on the two best fighters on the planet and losing has painted a false picture of Hatton's level of ability, he's still a top fighter. It's up to him whether he wants to continue, for what it's worth, having watched his interview tonight, I don't think he will continue.
To me, he peaked in the Tszyu fight. From there, it was a steady descent that began with the questionable Collazo fight, the uneven performance against Urango, then he blasted out a shell of Jose Luis Castillo that barely sc****d by Ngoudjo. The Mayweather fight ensued, then the unimpressive Lazcano fight. The promoters paired him with Mayweather Sr, matched him with the benign Malignaggi and the media hype declared him a new and improved Hatton. Once he got in with another dangerous fighter, we saw that nothing had indeed changed.
If he wasn't the cash cow draw he is, he likely would never have risen to the level of esteem he has attained. Hatton is good for boxing but he's not nearly the class of fighter he is made out to be by the networks.Comment
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I was saying this before the Pacquiao fight, that there were a lot of guys in and around his division that could beat him. Think about it, after the Mayweather fight, Hatton hardly exposed himself to the most revealing of acid tests in and around his division.
Lazcano, he'd been off for 15 months after losing to Vivian Harris. Hatton had a very difficult time later in the fight and came a punch or two from tasting the canvas.
Malignaggi, who wound never be considered an offensive threat. He jumped in on Malignaggi, mauled him and stopped him and was ordained "new and improved." How can you tell what a fighter has if he hasn't been punched?
Hatton has only lost to the best because he hasn't been subjected to the dangerous, high risk/low reward fighters in the division. Ortiz, Bradley and maybe even Holt would beat Hatton as well, if given the chance.Comment
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the way i view this is like joe frazier implied it, only reason foreman knocked him out is because foreman is a sledgehammer type puncher. hatton just met his sledgehammer, and isn't done. i think hatton has some great fights left inside him.
and, if hatton is done.. that's alright. his style doesn't allow a fighter to last very long, nor does his unhealthy lifestyle.Comment
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The reason he got the Pacquiao fight was because he brings 1000s of British fans from England to Las Vegas. If he didn't, it wouldn't have been a compelling matchup given his lackluster performances of late.
The Golden Boy hype machine invested a lot of stock into this "new Hatton" that was a combination of Hatton's aggressive nature and Floyd Mayweather boxing technique. If they didn't push that angle, nobody would have bought the fight because it looked like a complete mismatch. We now know that Hatton is the same old Hatton, nothing improved.
My opinion never changed. Read the BoxingScene Staff Predictions for this fight, this is what I went on the record as saying:
"I'm going to go with Pacquiao on this, probably by a knockout after the eighth round. Hatton is tough but he's too readily available for an accurate puncher like Pacquiao. All I've heard since the Malignaggi fight was how Hatton has improved since working with Mayweather Sr. My question is, how can you tell? He had a guy in front of him looking to survive from the third round on who wasn't an offensive threat to begin with.
If Pacquiao can keep his back to the middle of the ring and stay off the ropes, the fight is his to lose. The size advantage of Hatton will make the early rounds tense but once Hatton slows down in the middle rounds and becomes more stationary as he's been known to do, Pacquiao's speed will take over and dominate."
I gave Hatton a little more respect than Pacquiao did, obviously, but still I never thought for a moment Hatton had a prayer in this one.Comment
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