Billy Graham: "We want Mayweather"

[medium-deek]

Hatton is good, but he is not knocking Good Fighters out, who??? Did you see Hatton on FNF, he looked like he has broken his neck (fat as hell).

Hatton has always been like that. But when he is in fighting mode, fit and ready, God have mercy on Mayweather.

[MickyHatton]

You can't tire Mayweather, he spars 15 minute rounds when training. The guy is a machine in the gym.
All I know is that Floyd stays in great shape all the time, not just when getting ready for a fight.
Ricky spends a lot of time eating and drinking. He blows up like a fat pig inbetween fights. That kind of stuff cathces up to you sooner or later.

Thats one theory and another is that constant weight watching and maintaining of condition adds to stress on the body and does not allow for recovery.
Hatton does pile the pounds on but by the time he gets in the ring he is lean and stronger and fitter than any probably any other fighter out there and he has been able to rest and recover completely between fights!
If anything it will prolong a career, as a fighter who is always watching his weight and is not able to let his hair down will quickly fall out of love with the sport!

[Left2body]

Well, IMHO Hatton can't expect to tire out Mayweather, Mayweather is known to come into fights in great shape. Also the all year round conditioning is actually better for athletes. Football (American) players stay in shape virtually all year round with about 2-3 months off. They, like PBF stay in general good shape peaking for fights or begining of seasons. But dont allow themselves to get into bad shape between seasons. Look at Jerry Rice, his offseason workout routines were legendary and he was able to prolong his career for many years in a position that generally doesnt have a lot of longevity. Other football players took there que from him and now football athletes are in better shape than ever before and summer camps are no longer for getting into shape but for actual practice and team improvement.

I know Hatton comes in Incredible shape but I dont think you can give Hatton the conditioning advantage, I'm not sure you can give it to PBF either.

But as to who can have a longer career with there respective training regiments I believe its PBF. That and his fighting style generally lends its self to a longer career also.

[El Jesus]

I think at some point, someones lack of defense is going to be a problem, Hatton has virtually no defense when he decides he wants to bum rush someone, Hattons only chance with this strategy is to keep on mayweather with body shots etc, but the problem is that its really hard to land clean on mayweather and unlike Tszyu, mayweather doesnt need to be distant to set up his shots. Hatton isnt gonna outbox mayweather, so even if Hatton walks through mayweathers shots, we dont know how his face will hold up.

Its no secret that losing alot of weight constantly leads to someone swelling very easily, which we all know hatton does. The HBO announcers pointed this out about Vargas swelling so badly in the fight with Mosley.

And lets stop this fantasy about Judah being less talented than Hatton, thats simply not true, Judah has faster hands, faster head movement and far superior boxing skills, ive seen 9 Hatton fights. Hatton is much tougher than Judah, and has 9x the heart.

Hatton isnt gonna land on Mayweather like Judah did, Hatton doesnt have that kind of deceptive movement and speed to launch Counter lefts like Judah did. Hatton will simply have to hope his face holds up long enough to keep the pressure, but on Mayweather when you come in with no head movement, your gonna be in for a long night.

[Left2body]

I think at some point, someones lack of defense is going to be a problem, Hatton has virtually no defense when he decides he wants to bum rush someone, Hattons only chance with this strategy is to keep on mayweather with body shots etc, but the problem is that its really hard to land clean on mayweather and unlike Tszyu, mayweather doesnt need to be distant to set up his shots. Hatton isnt gonna outbox mayweather, so even if Hatton walks through mayweathers shots, we dont know how his face will hold up.

Its no secret that losing alot of weight constantly leads to someone swelling very easily, which we all know hatton does. The HBO announcers pointed this out about Vargas swelling so badly in the fight with Mosley.

And lets stop this fantasy about Judah being less talented than Hatton, thats simply not true, Judah has faster hands, faster head movement and far superior boxing skills, ive seen 9 Hatton fights. Hatton is much tougher than Judah, and has 9x the heart.

Hatton isnt gonna land on Mayweather like Judah did, Hatton doesnt have that kind of deceptive movement and speed to launch Counter lefts like Judah did. Hatton will simply have to hope his face holds up long enough to keep the pressure, but on Mayweather when you come in with no head movement, your gonna be in for a long night.

I agree with a lot of your points. I dont think that PBF can really hurt Hatton with any single shot but can inflict prolonged damage if unchecked.

If you really think about it this fight is very similar to Ali vs Frazier, Frazier eats leather coming in but once on the inside lands the more damaging blows. It makes for an interesting fight, hard to really predict as cases could be made for both sides, but thats what makes this fight intersesting. My only contention is that I dont think Hatton will enjoy a conditioning advantage here.

[Double]

Let's see how good Hatton looks against Collazo? Is anyone saying Collazo is better than Zab?