ricky hatton holds and headbutts too much?

[dino]

this guy holds then throws punches..holds ppl's head down and throws body shots..they shouldnt even be scored when he does that..the referre needs to deduct points from him

[Manny_P]

you know why right? It's because Emmanuel Stewart trained him for a while at some point.

Stewart trains his fighters to hug and clinch all the time. Ex: Wlad Klitschko and Lennox Lewis. Hatton makes up for it by being an aggressive machine though.

[ejenki]

This is the fighting style that they let him use in England so it highly unlikely that he's gonna change now. Hatton was just lucky that he had an inexperienced referee tonight. Jay Nady wouldn’t let him have his usual wrestling matches.