Mayweather Sr: “Hatton Wasn’t Following the Game Plan”
May 9th, 2009
By Matt Stein: In an interview with 8countnews, Floyd Mayweather Sr. pointed out the reasons why Ricky Hatton was defeated by Manny Pacquiao last Saturday night, saying that “Hatton wasn’t following the game plan” and that things weren’t good for Mayweather Sr., because Hatton was often listening to or training with his assistant trainer Lee Beard much of the time.
Hatton should have been listening to Mayweather Sr., and following his advice rather than an assistant trainer who’s not known for having trained world class athletes like Mayweather Sr. In between the 1st and 2nd rounds in the Pacquiao fight, Hatton could be seen looking over at Beard and listening to his instructions in the corner at the same time Mayweather Sr. was trying to give Hatton instructions.
It seemed a bizarre situation and not a healthy one for either Beard or Mayweather Sr. Ideally, there should only be one person giving the instructions in between rounds, not two or three or whatever. In this case, Hatton or Mayweather Sr. should have stepped up and told Beard to take a seat and let Mayweather Sr. give the instructions to Hatton.
If Ricky was comfortable getting his instructions from an assistant trainer, well then it’s on him. As you can see, it didn’t work out well for Hatton having to voices in the corner. One would hope that if Hatton is going to continue fighting that he either hires Beard as his full time trainer or tells him to take a backseat when Hatton is trying to be trained by someone else, because it’s not really fair for the head trainer to have to compete with an assistant trainer.
That’s a set up that’s doomed for failure, because it not only puts the head trainer in a bad situation, but it also increases the risk of the head trainer and the assistant saying opposite things to Hatton. It would be then up to Hatton to determine which one he’s going to listen to.
Judging from Hatton’s performance against Pacquiao last weekend, it doesn’t appear that Hatton was listening to Mayweather Sr. at all, because he didn’t appear to follow any of his advice about defending himself.
I’m not sure what Beard’s main job was previously when Billy Graham was Hatton’s main trainer, but I thought he was more of a new arrival to Hatton’s camp, because I hadn’t seen him before until Hatton’s fight with Juan Lazcano. In that situation, I saw Beard holding the dummy pads and letting Hatton pound away at his body.
It would seem like a bad move if Hatton tuned Mayweather Sr. out for Beard, given Mayweather’s much more extensive experience with world class athletes. Hopefully, Hatton makes up his mind about whom he wants to be trained by, because I think it’s not helpful to have two trainers going in opposite directions with each other.
In that case, Hatton would have been better off letting one of them go and then following the training of the one that Hatton had the more respect for.
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Hatton and Mayweather Sr. Couple should just keep quiet and quit embarrassing themselves over and over.. Duh-uh! Stop complaining and start training..
Well, their performance in the fight was very lousy, it was like PacMan was just walking in the park with eyes closed and hand tied at the back.. Nyehehe…
Losers should accept and respect the outcome of the game.. It’s just a game man, it’s not like you died.. That’s all!!!
It was actually an unfair bout, you know, PacMan being the strongest fighting with a low class boxer like Hatton!! hehehe// Just a joke though.. But you can take it seriously..
I don’t think that Mayweather Sr. is a good coach, he cannot even coach his own son. how can Hatton can follow the game plan if he don’t have any.
I agree with Bryant Sr. is incoherent that’s why Hatton didn’t learn anything.
To be honest I couldnt understand a word that mayweather Snr said in 24/7 so im not even gunna comment lol.
Having listened to Maywhether Sr in between round 1 and 2 you can clearly hear him giving Ricky good sound advice. But we all saw it Ricky got up and did exactly the same thing that saw him dropped twice in the first round.
I don’t think you can blame Maywether Sr, If I said to you ‘Don’t put your hand in the fire’ and then you do and get burnt it is pretty much your fault.
If Ricky had listened it would have been a far more competitive fight.
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agree that hatton deserved to lose but there are many reasons for the loss, with pac-man being the much better fighter/boxer than hatton- thats the most important thing.
all the reasons people keep throwing up though do seem to sound like just excuses, but thats the sport for you these days.
on the point of hatton not listening to mayweather snr enough, well thats a load of rubbish. mayweather snr often gave him conflicting orders, as i heard him say that the game plan as to attack the from the off like the old style of hatton, then it was to box instead.
then there was the fact that mayweather snr was never there in the first place to train hatton and was often late. he was even late for the fight for damn sake, no wonder jr couldn’t work with him.
but no, pac-man deserved to win.