Ricky Hatton "I could have beaten Manny Pacquiao when I was Younger & in my Prime!!"

[Richard Wadd]

natural for him to think so. you have to believe in yourself to make it and all fighters have confidence which doesnt go away just because they stop fighting.

he is obviously wrong though, hatton on his best day doesnt make it out of the first 4 rounds with pacquiao.

who do people expect hatton to say or think? how often does a fighter say "yeah he would always have knocked me unconscious no matter what point we fought"? lol

But of course, peak Hatton still loses to Pacquiao.

[Chiboxing123]

That vicious Ko of Hatton in the 2nd still is fresh in my memory

[tank17211]

Here's the thing Hatton, you fought Manny a mere year and 5 months after losing your first fight to Mayweather. You outboxed Lazcano and stopped Malignaggi before facing Pacquiao. You weren't washed-up until Manny washed you up, so stop making retroactive excuses and fantasy predictions. Don't go away mad, just go away!

I was thinking along the same lines. That left hand would have landed on Hatton anytime they fought because Hatton has no defense.

[Foreign Soil]

Hatton has extremely low self esteem, so he has to make up for it by deluding himself or else he'll no longer exist.

[Dirk Diggler UK]

Here's the thing Hatton, you fought Manny a mere year and 5 months after losing your first fight to Mayweather. You outboxed Lazcano and stopped Malignaggi before facing Pacquiao. You weren't washed-up until Manny washed you up, so stop making retroactive excuses and fantasy predictions. Don't go away mad, just go away!

Hatton did not look good in the Lazcano fight. He ran straight into the same check left hook that Mayweather KO'd him with, almost fell into the turnbuckle again lol. He was quite lucky that Lazcano couldn't really follow up.

He looked good against Paulie but they rushed into the Pacquaio fight. He needed more time with Mayweather Sr. Not that it was ever really a good match in the first place.

[AntonTheMeh]

in a drinking competition.

[Richard Wadd]

Hatton looked like crap against Lazcano. Him being so ****** up physically there and then against a light puncher against Malignaggi made me really doubt his chances against Manny.

But I didn't expect a domination like that.

[hectari]

lol sorry Hatton but you were always tailormade for Pacman, and miles? Pacman had more miles than you he was already knocked out and knock down several times and been in wars as a young fighter before he started using his movement when he got with Roach.

Hatton came off his best win too when he fought Pacman, he out boxed and schooled Paulie Malignaggi badly.

[FlatLine]

It wasn't just the power. It was the speed that befuddled Hatton. Pacquiao was just an awful matchup for him no matter when the fight took place.

If Ricky was allowed to fight in the same manner in which he fought Kostya Tszyu, then he would've stood a better chance. Tszyu pretty much got mugged that night. It would've only prolonged the inevitable though.

that was a clinch-fest on par with wladimir but it worked and tsyzu didnt even complain about it afterwards, I guess he'd been in enough fights to have to deal with hometown referees before but hatton was very strong that night, charged up by the insane crowd atmosphere.. he overpowered tsyzu in the clinches.. now he might have still beaten tsyzu even if he wasn't allowed to clinch that much but maybe not - its possible the outcome would have been different on neutral ground...

[LoadedWraps]

I agree with the Hitman. Prime Hatton was a monster.