Is Mayweather Sr. to Blame For Hatton’s Loss to Pacquiao?
May 6th, 2009
By William Mackay: With Ricky Hatton’s disastrous performance against Manny Pacquiao last weekend, there have been rumblings about Hatton having problems with his trainer Floyd Mayweather Sr. before the bout. Could Mayweather Sr. be the one to blame for Hatton’s bad performance against Pacquiao? After all, Mayweather Sr. did train Hatton and often time’s trainers are given the blame for the loss and credit for the wins.
I don’t remember seeing Mayweather Sr. teaching the kind of strategy that Hatton used in his fight with Pacquiao, so I’m dismissing those who feel that Mayweather Sr. should be the one to take the brunt of the responsibility for Hatton’s loss.
Sure, Hatton and Mayweather may have had some problems in their training camp together, but that shouldn’t have been enough of a factor for Hatton to lose so badly to Pacquiao. Hatton didn’t seem to use much of any of Mayweather Sr’s teachings as far as I can tell.
It looked like Hatton was using the same style that he had his entire career under trainer Billy Graham. Why Hatton suddenly chose to ignore what he had been shown by Mayweather Sr. is a question I’m sure that a lot of boxing fans would like to know.
Was it that Hatton felt that he knew better than Mayweather Sr. and hence was going to try to do it his way by rushing Pacquiao? Or it could have been that Hatton was knocked senseless from some of the many right hands he was getting nailed with in the 1st round against Pacquiao.
Certainly, if Hatton was hit hard enough it could have knocked the sense out of him and made him revert temporarily back to his old style. However, I tend to discount that theory because Hatton was rushing Pacquiao from the opening seconds of the bout, keeping his hands low and rushing trying to grab and land left hooks.
That wasn’t what Mayweather Sr. wanted Hatton to do, so I find it hard to assign blame to Mayweather Sr. for Hatton’s primitive attacks against Pacquiao.
Taking Mayweather Sr. out of the equation, would Hatton have done better against Pacquiao if Hatton was trained by his old trainer Billy Graham? I think we got the answer to that question in watching Hatton get blasted out in the 2nd round by Pacquiao. I guess we can’t know for sure, but we do know that Hatton’s offensive attacks were ineffective against Floyd Mayweather Jr. and they were further exposed in Hatton’s win over Juan Lazcano.
This would seem to suggest that Hatton needed a different style to use, one more pro oriented and less like s club fighter. This is why Mayweather Sr. was so important for Hatton. He may have had differences with Mayweather Sr. during training camp, but this shouldn’t the reason for Hatton’s poor performance against Pacquiao, because I couldn’t see any of Mayweather’s teachings in use against Pacquiao. For that reason, it seems that Hatton might as well not been trained at all by Mayweather Sr., since Hatton didn’t use anything that was taught to him by Mayweather.
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well said mr. mackay..no matter what trainer hatton had..he’s just extremely inferior to manny in the ring. manny would have beaten him no matter what. in my opinion, hatton did not even deserve to fight manny.
pacquaio no. 1!!!
If this had been a flash knockout by a lucky punch then I would say fair enough.
But Manny outclassed Ricky for the whole 6 minutes. Ricky had no answers. Was knocked down 2 in the first. Totally outclassed.
Pacman is a better MUCH more talented boxer. No excuses. End of.
of course! before the fight the senior had proclaimed himself as greatest trainer of all times not just that particular time but of all times. being a great trainer includes not only teaching the art of boxing but as well getting the trust of your fighter. in the hatton’s case’ mr. mayweather sr. failed miserably on his task.
There’s definitely a lot of blame to go around and I believe Floyd shouldn’t escape it just because Hatton fought his own style. The fact that Hatton reverted to his old ways shows that he had little respect for the lessons learned for the fight. I imagine one of the traits to being a good trainer is having the respect of your fighter and I imagine the most disrespectful thing for a fighter to do to a trainer is to discard months worth of training and planning on fight night. Shouldn’t the worth of a teacher be based on the progress of his students? Even the shi**iest students can be changed under the tutelage of a great teacher. I’m not saying Mayweather’s a crap teacher, I’m just saying he definitely isn’t the greatest.
floyd joy mayweather sr is the greatest trainer of all time not this time, that time or part time!!!! But seriously Hatton has to take the blame the old heart ruled the head again…
i don’t get this floyd “loudmouth” sr! what kind if a coach is he? blaming his fighter solely for the loss and telling him to just retire! what a clown…and after the fight he was seen signing autographs and taking pics! did not even bother to be with his fallen fighter…everything he said before fell on him! look who’s laughing now!
you cant teach an old dog new tricks hattons style would proberly beat most guys out there but manny used the ring got in and out of distance and knew when hatton was gonna unload so counted him even bigger shots far play to manny cos hatton his team and most of the experts didnt think manny had the power at that weight to bother ricky but he certinly did maybe if ricky knew he had that much power he would have fought a different fight
Im a Hatton fan but feel Hatton can only have himself and Pacman to blame for this loss. Hatton for opting to use zero defence and Pacman for making him pay for it.