Pacquiao will tear Hatton apart...

Hatton's win over Castillo means about as much as posts - nothing.

 

who did you pick to win that match?

 

Ouch::

 

Are you talking about Castillo?

On Hatton's last conference call even he said he didn't look good against Castillo until he landed the body shot.

Regardless, by then Castillo had nothing left...he was broke and fighting for free (purse went to the fine for the scrapped third match with Corrales).

 

I think my signature says it all, does it not?

 

Manny will indeed tear Hatton apart. Too fast, too much power, southpaw.. nuff said. Ricky will get blitzed.

 

not sure i go along with the power.....i think he can hurt Ricky, but i don't think he'll be carry a lot of power at 140. It took a lot of punches to knockout Diaz, and Oscar, thoroughly outboxed, never looked like going down, albeit at 147

I am really undecided on the fight....i can see various scenarios....Manny, being far too quick, and sharp...just beating up Ricky......but then, i think about this....Manny's performance vs Oscar can't have turned him into a master-boxer overnight.......besides, Ricky isn't all that easy to outbox anyway. Mayweather didn't win every round...he took over about half way......and Ricky was as sloppy as he has ever been in that fight. Hatton's physicalness, that has overwhelmed so many seasoned 140lbers...surely has got to be a great advantage against a former-flyweight?

But then i continue to go round in circles.....yes there were improvements in the Mallignaggi fight, but look who he was facing.....i have growing concerns over Hatton's punch resilience....the cuts of course.......sooner or later the images of Pacquaio dancing round De La Hoya return....i'm a mess

as the fight gets closer, being a Hatton fan, i'll probably focus more on how Ricky is gonna win, and convince myself that it will be so

....in weighing up....the one thing i think should be done, when evaluating this match-up is to try your best to whipe Hatton's Mayweather nightmare, and Pacquaio's De La Hoya dream, out of your minds

 

I have an utter disdain for British boxers. I'm not sure why or when it started. Maybe it's the pale skin or the typically sheltered careers spent afraid to leave their own backyard. Regardless, I openly admit to my loathing of these fighters.

Ricky Hatton, as Meetthefeebles will attest, is no exception. I took great joy from the Mayweather knock out and yelled "EXPOSED" at my television the minute Hatton's pallid corpse collapsed from Floyd's left hook.

That being said, even I can't completely dismiss what he's been able to accomplish at 140 pounds. You can twist it, contort it, bend it, or revise it, but the fact remains the guy is undefeated at 140 through 20+ Championship fights.

You can try to revise how good Tszyu was when he faced and got destroyed by Hatton. You can dismiss Castillo as shot and washed up. You can slam Maussa's lack of skill despite only being one fight removed from crushing Vivian Harris. You can even point to Paulie Malignaggi's lack of power.

But what you can't change, and trust me I've tried, is the fact that Hatton destroyed these guys as well as beating everyone else put in front of him at 140. I question his style, his methods and even his pre-fight weight issues, but the dude is an absolute handful at junior welter.

 

I treat signatures on here as you do ambition and sobriety, they're disabled.

 

This is Manny's biggest test imo.

 

It's alright mate,.. your not the only one who shows utter disdain for fighters based on thier skin colour,.....

 

:laughing:

 

Double, you picked Castillo, I remember.

Therefore you have to give Hatton credit. You thought Castillo would win, and he got taken out with 1 body shot in round 4.

 

exactly

Trinidad fans always hang onto that win like it meant something

Whitaker was FINISHED by then

The fact that Whitaker even fought well for the first half of the fight and lasted the distance is a tribute to how great he was... he was completely washed up

 

:laughing:

 

Yeah, I nearly went snowblind watching Lennox Lewis, Johnny Nelson, Maurice Hope, Herbie Hide, Naseem Hamed, David Haye, Steve Robinson, Randolph Turpin, Nigel Benn, Chris Eubank, Amir Kahn, Frank Bruno, Duke Mckenzie, Dennies Andries,John Conteh etc as well.

Those pasty bastards should get a tan.

:bears:

 

you could throw British-based Dick Tiger into the mix

that motherfucker was as pale as the driven snow

 

I don't mind Trpl at all, but he can be utterly ignorant at times ::

 

To help dispell that ignorance I must add : Lloyd Honeyghan, Errol Christie, Michael Watson, Gary Mason, Herol Graham, Kirkland Laing, Danny Williams, Maurice Hope, Carl Thompson et al.

:doh:

 

Hatton and Mayweather Sr......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UK4iTxuJRvU

 

Maurice Hope was a man's man Daddy-O, he could tear a motherfucker's head off of his shoulders, and did.

One of my top ten jr. middleweights ever.

 

poor guy got picked to shreds by Wilfred Benitez though

I remember reading he got married the next day, all busted up

 

:laughing: Couldn't have put it better myself...

MTF

 

When did he have 20+ title fights at 140?

 

WBU belt baby!

 

Looks like Humberto Soto will possibly be back and facing Benoit Gaudet on the Pac-Hatton undercard. Benoit has a 20-1/7 KO's record. Man I really want to see this fight now, I hope there is a stream.

 

I don't get this either.

The same can be said for a shitload of guys on here against Calzaghe.

They pick a fighter to outright win a fight against another. But the minute their prediction goes south, the fight meant nothing and was a forgeone conclusion. :doh:

Double L was in here claiming Castillo would beat Hatton and shouting people down over it until I called both he and Alabama Man out in the betting forum (they both dropped their asses then.)

But NOW that fight meant nothing and shouldn't even count as a win.

Heard the same shit from a pack of guys about Calzaghe/Lacy, calzaghe/Kessler, Calzaghe/Hopkins and Calzaghe/RJJ although the last one it was just leftover groupies holding on to one last hope.

 

And is a bet welcher extraordinaire. I plan on going public with his welchings if i don't get my money (I've waited 18 months) soon.

 

This is true, I remmeber that

I am guilty of the first one of those Calzaghe picks, because I really thought there was a chance hed get KOd by Lacy... obviously hindsight is 20/20 so the pick looks absurd now

I picked Calzaghe to beat all the rest though, especially Roy whom I thought he would kill at this stage. I still say younger versions of Jones and Hopkins beat him though

but you are right, this stuff happens a lot around here. There are guys that were saying Antonio Margarito was basically a welterweigth Chuck Wepner and then Mosley beats him up and it is "Shane is one of the great ones" WTF???

And Double L was all about Castillo going into that fight

 

I agree with the spirit of the post but after seeing castillo look sluggish, and mostly ineffective against Ngoudjo in the hatton set-up fight, it took a lot of the lustre off the match-up. Its not like he looked disinterested as in the Reyes fight, he just looked used up, weak, and unable to carry his strength to the higher weight.