If mayweather and malignaggi switched referees for their hatton fight..

[Pullcounter]

how did the ref make hatton walk into that same checkhook he was walking into the entire fight??

by not allowing hatton to hold-n-hit. cortez wouldn't allow hatton to work on the inside.

[DARKSEID]

how did the ref make hatton walk into that same checkhook he was walking into the entire fight??

You know how floyd got hatton with that check hook? Because hatton was exhausted and floyd wasn't. If kenny bayless let them fight, then mayweather would have been more tired by the 10th round and hatton would be less tired because mayweather would have been less active.

A brawler's job against a boxer is to close the distance. Vice versa. Bayless let them fight and cortez didn't. (only after hatton was already tired he let them fight on the inside)

[Darkstar]

Not to mention Hatton is 5'7 with a 65 inch reach. To Mayweather 5"8 height with a huge 72 inch reach.

Hatton had no other choice really.

[Thread Stealer]

Mayweather-Hatton wouldn't have been much different because Hatton was eating most of the shots on the inside when Cortez did let them fight. In the first 2-3 rounds, Cortez was way over involved and didn't let them really fight on the inside, working in and out of clinches, using their free hand, etc...When he did let them, Mayweather was getting the better of it. He was landing most of the clean shots up close, using tricks with his elbows and forearms, and repeatedly dug in that right uppercut to the body when his left arm and Ricky's right arm were tied up.

[Squizz]

Funny that no Hatton fans talked about all the **** he did in the Tzyu fight. Besides the times they were not broken up PBF was the one who did more work on the inside than Hatton. PBF also showed he was actually stronger than Hatton. Face facts there is nothing Hatton can do inside a ring better than PBF. 100 times out of 100 PBF beats the brakes off Hatton just like he did.

HAHAHA. Excellent post. Hatton did some crazy dirty stuff during the Kosta fight. If I EVER saw a ref CLEARLY helping the hometown fighter, it was IN THAT FIGHT. Turnabout is fairplay. Cortez just didn't let Hatton get away with his usual excessive holding, and dirty b.s. And he got exposed, and RUINED by Floyd Mayweather. It's not about the ref in this fight. Hatton still would have got KTFO. If not beaten in a lop-sided UD. Floyd is light years ahead of Hatton in terms of class.

[Rick Grimes]

Mayweather-Hatton wouldn't have been much different because Hatton was eating most of the shots on the inside when Cortez did let them fight. In the first 2-3 rounds, Cortez was way over involved and didn't let them really fight on the inside, working in and out of clinches, using their free hand, etc...When he did let them, Mayweather was getting the better of it. He was landing most of the clean shots up close, using tricks with his elbows and forearms, and repeatedly dug in that right uppercut to the body when his left arm and Ricky's right arm were tied up.

Tricks? You just don't want to call it what it is and that's "cheating".

[turkas]

Cortez didn't affect Hatton in the Castillo fight. However, I do think Bayless would have made the fight more interesting. Can't blame anyone, but the fighters though, they're the ones that agree on the refs in advance.

[Chew BackAtacha]

To me, this is easily Mayweather best win of his carear. ref had nothing to do with it. How fast is Hatton by the way? very impressive hand and foot speed, he just over reached when he punches and got countered. If Hatton would have went to a better trainer early and looked after himself he would have been a problem - but his idol was Roberto Duran and he thought he could abuse himself the way he did, but not everyone is built that way.

[Squizz]

how did the ref make hatton walk into that same checkhook he was walking into the entire fight??

Or the lead right hand for that matter. Some people will never get over this loss. I know, it sucks.........but ur man got beat by the better fighter, and was EXPOSED. And RUINED.

[Thread Stealer]

Tricks? You just don't want to call it what it is and that's "cheating".

Tricks, dirty fighting, cheating, whatever.

Mayweather's forearms and elbows, Duran's low blows and elbows, Hopkins's everything, Pedroza's everything, Tito's low blows, etc...

I'm so used fighters bending the rules that I'm almost immune to it, unless it's REALLY extreme (see Pedroza-Laporte).