While watching the recent press conferences with Floyd Mayweather and Ricky Hatton, I’ve noticed that Mayweather has been incredibly aggressive in his trashing talking towards Hatton, seemingly going out of his way to devalue all of Hatton’s previous accomplishments, his fighting style and his physical shape. However, in doing so, Mayweather has seemed almost desperate in his efforts to get the crowds to side with his own belief system as he tries to weaken and diminish Hatton as a human being.
It has gone far beyond normal boxing trash talk, to a more personal level as Mayweather not only seems to be trying to hurt Hatton, he seems to be trying to destroy him in an effort for Mayweather to get sense of control. From a psychological stand point, Mayweather appears to be trying to prevent from feeling vulnerable - something he no doubt must be feeling based on his extreme aggression towards Hatton - and by criticizing him more and more, Mayweather appears to be trying to accomplish a feeling of grandiosity and invulnerability, even at the expense of true reality.
