How did Floyd neaturlize Hatton?

[!! Shawn]

Wasn't that complicated. Go back and watch the last 10 seconds of the 1st round, where Mayweather hit Hatton with 4 clean lead right hands before the bell rang.

Told me all I needed to know.

Go to the 26:45 mark:

Look at 55 seconds left of round two, ricky hits Floyd as Floyd is leaning over, is in the middle of throwing with both hands, and Cortez just pulls him off. No clinch, just Cortez preventing Hatton from working.

[Sledgeweather17]

Neutralise boy... you spelled it wrong twice lol

And I agree, down the stretch Floyd got stronger but on the inside, early on, Hatton was going well but the ref kept getting in his way. Then it came down to superior skill and May was too good for Hatton.

Not a bad effort on Hatton's account though, considering he was moving up and more than held his own for almost 5 rounds.

The ref didn't get on no one's way. Hatton was a dumb **** who kept allowing himself to get smothered.

Hatton did the same thing the whole fight. He would try jumping in with the left hook, Floyd ducks under the left hook and moves into Hatton while in his shoulder roll stance. Hatton's chest smacks into Floyd's shoulder, and then he tries to push Floyd into the ropes, but Floyd's stance doesn't allow him to do anything except try to hit the overhand right, except Floyd just turns sideways and Hatton ends up hitting Floyd's back and shoulders, that or he rabbit punches, forcing the ref to break em up.

Then it would be repeat all over again. A little later Floyd starts varying between ducking under the left hook and scoring to the body, or catching Hatton with a straight right as he comes in and then clinching (for obvious reasons, the dumb **** keeps running straight into Floyd even after getting his head snapped back, thereby smothering himself, Floyd clinchings to avoid a nasty head collision coz the dumb **** seems intend on running into him no matter what).

Also, Floyd didn't clinch half as much as people think in the fight. You can't clinch with your left arm held across your own body and your right holding the phone, unless you got four arms. Floyd simply moved into Hatton to snuff out his offense. Leaning in does not equal to clinching, that is actually the true art of inside fighting, not those illegal crap that Castillo, Maidana, and Hatton do.

[daggum]

it would have been another boring maidana-2 like performance but top right turnbuckle came through in the clutch

[Sweet Jones]

Look at 55 seconds left of round two, ricky hits Floyd as Floyd is leaning over, is in the middle of throwing with both hands, and Cortez just pulls him off. No clinch, just Cortez preventing Hatton from working.

Methinks you need to look at that again. Hatton clearly d****s his left arm over Mayweather's neck and is somewhat holding him down trying to throw an uppercut.

People complain about Cortez, but he was pretty consistent in that fight: any holding/pushing down on the head or neck and he instantly jumped in. As a matter of fact, Cortez stopped Hatton from doing the EXACT SAME MOVE @ 1:56 mark of the same 2nd round.

Mayweather is just on another level from Hatton. Period.

[!! Shawn]

Methinks you need to look at that again. Hatton clearly d****s his left arm over Mayweather's neck and is somewhat holding him down trying to throw an uppercut.

People complain about Cortez, but he was pretty consistent in that fight: any holding/pushing down on the head or neck and he instantly jumped in. As a matter of fact, Cortez stopped Hatton from doing the EXACT SAME MOVE @ 1:56 mark of the same 2nd round.

Mayweather is just on another level from Hatton. Period.

That is very obvious. Hatton was never anything special. He was still prevented from doing work by Cortez.

He still would have lost, but Floyd would have had to take a little more bumps and bruises to make it happen.

[RussB23]

He roughed him up on the inside like hatton thought he would to do floyd. Like you said he was just better.

[RussB23]

[Luilun]

Was he just the better inside fighter?

He had the size Hatton is what 5 foot 2 ? He looked 4 to 5 inches shorter than Floyd

[elfag]

Floyd is a better fighter than Hatton on the inside, quite a bit better. Hatton complained that floyd held too much but just watch the Kostya fight to see how much hatton held.

Cortez did a horrible job as ref, kept breaking it up all the time, but hatton is a sloppy fighter, thats what he likes to do get in real close on the inside and **** away. Floyd would rather have his space and counter, he was landing them as hatton is was coming in but hattons feet are really quick and he closes the distance fast.

Floyd would batter hatton regardless of cortez, hes just better on the inside, he knows how to use his elbows to create space, hatton fights sloppy and dirty (holding, rabbit punching kostya) so I dont feel bad floyd elbows him.

Floyds stamina was way better than hattons, plus he knows how to stay relaxed and pace himself, hatton was exhausted and floyd was still fresh. Hatton has no head movement when hes coming in, its what got him sparked against pac as well. Hattons training methods were pretty poor but he didnt realize it because it was what he always done.

[elfag]

Also people cry about it being at 147, which is just dumb.

Hatton was lineal 140, PBF was lineal 147, whomever fights at the others weight has the most to gain. Hatton would have been lineal in 2 divisions at the same time had he pulled it off.

And the obvious, 147 benefited Hatton more than Floyd. Hatton was the one struggling to make 140, which is why he tried out 147 in the first place, he just did poorly without a size advantage on his opponent. Fighting at 147 meant Hatton didnt have to drain down on fight night, you guys act like floyd is bigger when its quite the opposite and hatton outweighs floyd by a good margin.

This is the same **** being played out for Canelo-GGG and 155, where Canelo is the heavier guy, but wants to bring the smaller guy down, because he knows the smaller guy doesnt like to drain as much, so hopefully giving him an even larger fight night weight advantage than he would have at the higher weight.... its ******ed.