Comments Thread For: Ricky Hatton: I Feel a Little Bit Cheated in Loss To Floyd Mayweather!

[Cool Scant]

A lot feel that way fighting floyd, feel like they're fighting 2 people!
Hatton that beat kostya would have beat floyd in.manchester.
Floyd didn't fight the same Hatton everyone else had to.

Keep dreaming no version of Hatton would ever beat any version of Floyd. Glad Hatton got KTFO that what he get for brits booing and disrespecting the National Anthem that night.

[Cool Scant]

If Kenny Bayless was the ref, Hatton would have had a chance.

Not true. The only time Bayless forgets the rules of boxing is when he’s officiating a Wilder fight. Bayless doesn’t let anyone fight on the inside against MAYWEATHER either

[aboutfkntime]

Right? Lol, he literally catapulted as soon as Floyd started fighting back on the inside.

Same with Maidana. Go as far back as round one already Floyd started to fight him back on the inside.

People tend to intentionally overlook the fact that Maidana almost got stopped by Floyd in the first round and decided to clinch and low blow in order to save himself. This would happen two more times where Maidana saved himself from being stopped with the same clinch and low blow move that went unpunished.

Floyd is damn good on the inside, which makes you wonder why he doesn't use the inside game more often.

[Cool Scant]

I know hindsight is a wonderful thing but looking back he should have been prepared for Cortez to referee like that.

No way was he going to referee the fight that allowed Hatton to use his rough house tactics that worked so well against Tszyu. I remember the look on Cortez's face when the Brits typically booed the US national anthem and thinking that doesn't bode well.

Brits booing the national anthem that night annoyed tf out of me as well. I don’t know what’s wrong with those people to come on US soil and disrespect the national anthem. They did the same thing at the wilder fight. And the funny thing is Americans let brits disrespect the anthem with impunity but same people have a problem with Kaepernick kneeling smh

[Boxing Goat]

I totally agree. Cortez was steaming biased trash and was way too involved in that fight.

[HTown Killer]

Him complaining jus screams to me well it looked like in that fight he should've been taught better to fight on the inside. Hatton knew goin in fighters like Floyd would tie up but he jus couldn't get around the tie ups an get in some work so he has no one else to blame but himself. Everyone here in these dam threads kno thats a skill u should learn no matter what the refs or the specific opponent u have in front of u. Fighters like him never really learned how to fight that crisp an beautiful inside game knowing that's there gameplan to be inside since there body type pointed towards that. He had a inside game but not as crisp as sum other top fighters had past or present

[MDPopescu]

... back in 2007, after ODLH, Floyd should have fought Cotto, Margarito, Williams, or Mosley... instead, Floyd chose a small super-lightweight in Hatton... then he "retired"...

[PRINCEKOOL]

Mayweather was not exactly being beaten up on the inside, he was stronger than Hatton.

The referee ruined the fight for both of them.

It was a competitive fight.

[SplitSecond]

Him complaining jus screams to me well it looked like in that fight he should've been taught better to fight on the inside. Hatton knew goin in fighters like Floyd would tie up but he jus couldn't get around the tie ups an get in some work so he has no one else to blame but himself. Everyone here in these dam threads kno thats a skill u should learn no matter what the refs or the specific opponent u have in front of u. Fighters like him never really learned how to fight that crisp an beautiful inside game knowing that's there gameplan to be inside since there body type pointed towards that. He had a inside game but not as crisp as sum other top fighters had past or present

How do you fight out of a clinch when the ref calls a stop to the action as soon as the two fighters make contact?

[Jab jab boom]

Cut the nonsense. There's no version of Hatton that would ever have beaten Floyd and unless the referee was allowed to punch Floyd while Hatton was hitting him as well, there's no ref that would've made a difference in the outcome of thag fight.