Whoever said Hatton didn't impress needs to watch the fight again

[TheEvilSaint]

good K on the way.

[Guest]

In North America, Cotto got limited credit for destroying Maussa. Prior to that fight, the Columbian was seen only as a durable stepping stone, and Cotto passed the test.

So, again in North America, Ricky's conquest of Maussa is seen as an obvious outcome. Ricky will get his due credit for beating a man that he should have beaten. Nothing more.

Much like Cotto, nobody should get too excited about Hatton beating this particular opponent.

Fair point Moon, but again Cotto stopped him on cuts... Hatton laid him out.

And Scap, GOOD question. To be honest, I haven't seen enough fights with cuts in this country to make an honest judgement call. (Isn't it weird that in a sport like boxing you rarely see cuts as a percentage?)

[SugaShane]

Just saw the fight today...yeah, Hatton did fight sloppier then his last fight but c'mon who the hell would be super motivated to fight this guy? This guy is so awkward and does EVERYTHING wrong, there's no way your going to look good beating this guy. Saw Manfredy-Mayweather also today, I see Mayweather having a very tough time with this tough, tough englishman. This fight MUST happen if he's the victor against Judah.

[Kimmy]

Fair point Moon, but again Cotto stopped him on cuts... Hatton laid him out.

And Scap, GOOD question. To be honest, I haven't seen enough fights with cuts in this country to make an honest judgement call. (Isn't it weird that in a sport like boxing you rarely see cuts as a percentage?)

It is an interesting debate. If That fight had been in America and say Hatton was fighting Mayweather, would they be more inclined to stop it? Now, Mayweather is the house fighter basically and Hatton a virtual unknown ( in Vegas terms ).
I think the rule is that if the cut is hindering the performance and/or causing the fighter punishment that he would not be recieving if it weren't for the cut then the fight is stopped.
We'll only know when hatton fights stateside and gets cut. Kinda makes you think of hatton fighting Gatti with the cut thing and all ( even though i think Gatti would be destoryed by hatton ).

[Guest]

I tell you one thing about Hatton that I really liked. Look at the KO again. He catches Maussa by throwing an extended feint with his right before laying him out with the left. For someone who isn't regarded as having much of a boxing brain he showed it on Saturday... after three rounds of being dumb.

[TuPrincipe]

Hatton fought the 1st round brilliantly.

I thought Hatton was headhunting too much, He didnt use his patented left hook to the body, and his killer liver shots.

A bad performance from Hatton IMO, but He got the job done which is ALL you can ask. He reminds me of the type of fighter even if He is losing on the scorecards He somehow pulls it out.

[ottoevans]

does anyone knoe where i can DL the fight???????????

[TuPrincipe]

Fancy enterprises.

You can get the 1.7gb copy from Anorak just ask him for it, tell him I payed the 10 mill for you to get it.

[Moon]

I tell you one thing about Hatton that I really liked. Look at the KO again. He catches Maussa by throwing an extended feint with his right before laying him out with the left. For someone who isn't regarded as having much of a boxing brain he showed it on Saturday... after three rounds of being dumb.

I think the saying, "go to the body and the head will come" is most appropriate here. Maussa's defense is always quite bad, but Hatton had his full attention with body shots early-mid fight and Maussa wasn't willing to raise his hands high in case Ricky went downstairs again. Ricky should be creditted with staying with a fight plan, which I'm sure included that time-tested approach to finding the opponent's chin.

[ottoevans]

does anyknow where i can get the fight??????