No. Hatton loses. I think bad styles for Locche are Pryor, Floyd, Benitez, Whitaker, Chavez, and Taylor. Truthfully, Oscar is also a bad style for Locche at 140. Hatton is made for him, and I think Locche wins a commanding UD. Hatton would keep it close for awhile, but I see Locche pulling away late. Locche's excellent hook to the body would wear Hatton down. Deep in the fight I think he would be countering the shit outta Hatton and hurting him. Locche by UD
Given Hatton was landing on Floyd and getting up close to him, I don't see why it's far fetched to think he'd do it vs Locche. Locche wouldn't have the bonus of having a referee who shuts down Hatton's inside game and having power and speed like Mayweather's. I don't think Hatton is out-classed here, at all.
Agreed, imo Hatton' style is definitely bad for Locche, even though he might not be good enough to win. Constant pressure, fearless style and quick feet are the exact recipe against a stylist without a big punch.
Locche gets picked against by any pressure fighter, it seems. Its just not accurate. Hernandez was better than Hatton, and Fuji was far deadlier puncher. Hatton doesn't apply the intelligent pressure that would be needed to overcome Locche. He would fade late in the face of Locche's consistently punishing to the body and countering him cleanly. Locche aint Paulie M.
Hernandez and Fuji were pedestrian in their attack compared to Hatton. More brutal sure, but not half as aggressive. Hatton fought one defensive specialist who was leaps and bounds better than Locche, and he did well until the aspects of Floyd's game that Locche didn't have, took its toll. Locche doesn't have the physicality that Floyd has, nor the power, hand-speed, footwork or roughness. He isn't as dirty, and wouldn't have the same bias referee who did half of Mayweather's job for him by not letting Hatton work inside. Hatton's pressure was intelligent enough to trouble a far better fighter than Locche. I see no reason to think this would be one sided.
Yep, i think Hatton performance against pbf is underrated. Made it close for a lot of rounds till pbf class surfaced
The ref excuse is extremely tired by now. Floyd was a better infighter than Hatton, and beat him without controversy. A Hatton fan has NO ROOM whatsoever to complain about ref favoritism, considering Ricky benefitted from it on UK soil. Hatton's performance against Floyd is actually OVERRATED imo. I don't give him much credit for being competitive with Floyd until the mid rounds, at which point Floyd took control. Judah gave Floyd far more problems than Hatton did, and you never hear Judah given as much acknowledgment for it as Hatton fans give Ricky for going face-first into the ring post. But back to Locche-Hatton, I just see Locche countering Hatton with uppercuts all night - Ricky was a sucker for the shot, and Locche was a master at countering with them. Although Locche wasn't a big banger, if he hits Hatton clean so many times, eventually the shots are gonna take their toll, as even Louie Collazo put Hatton in trouble late with clean punching. I just feel you need a higher quality pressure fighter than Hatton to beat Locche.
It isn't an excuse, I haven't excuses anything. I haven't said Ricky would've won with a different referee, because he wouldn't. I've only pointed out how well he did vs a much better fighter than Locche, without his signature game. It isn't revisionism to claim Floyd benefitted from a bias ref, since that was a commonly held view at the time. If anything, it's revisionism to claim the opposite. Furthermore, the things Ricky got away with didn't completely nullify the other guy's style. Allowing for lowblows and elbows isn't half as damaging to a fighter's chance of winning as taking away their entire style is. If there were a different referee in that fight, I actually think Floyd would've won even earlier because his work wouldn't be smothered either. But it would absolutely be a harder fight, since Ricky would be able to actually fight the fight he wanted to. Do you not think that the fight would be more competitive with a different referee? Judah never gave Floyd 'far more problems' than Hatton did. Judah won about the same amount of rounds, caught him with a decent shot while off balance, then faded after six. Almost exactly the same as Ricky, apart from Mayweather stopped Ricky. The difference is that Ricky was literally denied his main strength.
