Was Hatton Ruined By Mayweather?
May 24th, 2009
By William Mackay: Lately in the past week, Floyd Mayweather Jr. has been taking credit for supposedly ruining Hatton as a fighter by knocking him out in the 10th round in their December 2007 bout. While Hatton did end up getting knocked out in the fight, it wasn’t anything close to being a particularly nasty knockout like the one that Hatton suffered in his 2nd round knockout loss to Manny Pacquiao on May 2nd.
None of that could have helped Hatton, and it may just be that Hatton’s lifestyle caught up with him after his bout with Mayweather. Hatton put on a great deal of weight after the Mayweather loss, as he looked positively huge in the video and photos just a month after the fight.
It’s hard to imagine that Hatton could have put so much weight on so quickly, because looked like he had swelled up like a beach ball in such a short period of time.
Just having to take that weight off and try to compete afterwards much have been a formidable task for Hatton, and I can’t imagine how he was able to fight as well as he did against Lazcano after having lost so much weight. Hatton had always put on weight between fights, but I had never seen him as large as he was following the Mayweather bout.
It may just be that Hatton ate himself in the position where he couldn’t take as hard a punch as before. When a fighter starts screwing around with putting on and dropping weight in between fights it has a way of messing up their ability to fight effectively.
I don’t know whether this effects how they take a head shot, but I’ve seen many fighters lose after having taken off a ton of weight in training camps (fat farms) before a fight. Look at Erik Morales and Fernando Vargas as two shining examples of fighters that put on a ton of weight after a fight and then had to take it all off, leaving them much more vulnerable than they were before they started packing on all that weight in the first place.
It may be that there’s a point of no return for fighters that put on a lot of weight, and once they’ve reached certain amount of weight that they’ve put on, they’re not the same fighter afterwards. No doubt it’s different for each fighter, because some fighters like George Foreman put on an incredible amount of weight when he was retired for 10 years.
However, in Foreman’s case, once he took most of it off, he stayed around the same weight for the rest of his career. Foreman didn’t let himself go in between fights like Hatton was doing.
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Hatton should have stopped boxing ages ago,all he ever seems to do now is charge kamakazi like into his opponents.
It seems as tho he has forgotten the art of boxing,and I feel he should now retire, with all the money he’s made he dosn’t nee the pain anymore.
A great record.
i can’t wait for the day that pacman kills this fraud in the ring.
Anon,
Rd. 1. JMM started as a teenaged featherweight.
Rd. 2. At 35, JMM barely is a lightweight.
Rd. 3. JMM has never ducked a challenge
Rd. 4. PBF began as a super featherweight
Rd. 5. PBF has a bigger frame and is now a welter
Rd. 6. PBF keeps ducking guys his size
Rd. 7. Check the facts again, PBF refused to go up to fight Mosley at Lightweight because of size.
Rd. 8. PBF accepts JMM, but still ducking welters
Rd. 9. Why not fight Mosley, Cotto or Williams who have called him out many times on national TV and PBF has said they are not big enough to fight him? These are PBF’s own words not mine.
Rd. 10 Check PBF PPV numbers before he fought DLH and Fatman. Can’t find’em? Neither can anyone; DLH & Fatman brought the fans. Check the facts again, they bring huge numbers to any fight, even for Pacman’s, although Pacman is now a big draw.
Rd. 11. You are using Mr Perez as your source of info….I use Ring Magazine the Bible of Boxing.
Rd. 12. Referee stops this one sided debate like Pacman vs DLH, after reading your misinformation.
The winner and still champion Wayne The Brain Lord. Experience beats lack of knowledge again!
To say that Floyd ruined Hatton is just like saying Pacquiao’s win didn’t prove how good the Pacman is. Guys what watch out, Floyd may be in for a surprise if he manned up to fight Pacman.
Yeah… Yeah…Yeah….
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Why not fight him now? Because theres a huge list of Welterweights out there for him to fight, why go for a Lightweight and why make him pile on the pounds to do it?
Also if Fraud cant get down to Lightweight then regardless of where they started their careers they aint in the same place now.
I do know what your saying and you do rip some good holes in my argument but if he wants to come out of his fake retirement and start shootin his gob off about how amazing he still is then go and prove it against a proper healthy fighting fit Welterweight not a fattened up Lightweight.
Hes got a fraudalant system going on here, he claims to be retired, stays very much in shape behind the scenes, waits till all the people he doesnt want to fight are all tied up in some way, then comes out of retirement and picks a fight that on paper looks interesting but has been deliberatly picked for a safe and easy night for him.
Hes twice the boxer Ricky Hatton is but only half the warrior and half the man. Its a Gladiator sport and where everybody else steps into the lions den he waits till they are all asleep and go kills a 3 legged defencless cub then holds it up like hes just killed the king of the jungle.
What a fraud. And im not questioning his ability, i think hes 1 of the smartest and best boxers on the planet but hes got no spine.
pbf is really a good fighter thats why he was called the p4p king. looking back at his fight with hatton, the latter was successful in brawling him in some occasions. in fact, hatton won some rounds before he was knockout out in the tenth round. i am a fan of floyd, but sad to say that pacquiao was more successful against hatton.
hatton applied the same brawling style for pacquiao, in fact for all of his past opponents, but he ended up for just 6 minutes of action.
oh and also pacman has never had the ppv numbers that floyd has in his last 2 fights, so i would say he was atleast just a big a draw as pacman..dont use someones trainer as an unbiased source..lol haters.
Ukansodoff- how is he cherry picking the number 2 p4p?thats a dumb comment they both started there careers around the same weight so y not fight him?how is he gona make any lower weight after such a long lay off to fight at a catch weight? he called out mosley years ago and pursueing him for a fight and he refused as at that time mayweather wasnt a big enough draw so y does he deserve a shot now, and cotto has not called him out or even seemed interested in fighting him.Margarito lost credebility cos of the hand wraps situation and hes overated anyway. its funny how people like come up with these nicknames like they would say it to these guys faces..lol.fraud-pathetic WAYNE LORD..should have a read of this comment also, if you followed boxing u would know mayweather tried to get a fight with mosley , mosley is also just after the money now so you reap what you sew, dont deserve a shot. See post fight bruseles etc
I believe that Mayweather Sr. and Pacquiao were the ones that ruined Hatton. Mayweather Sr.’s constant reassurance that Pacquiao’s speed was not a big deal eventually lead to Hatton’s downfall. Honestly, I really don’t think Mayweather Jr.’s shot would’ve hurt Ricky as much if Ricky didn’t hit the post. After getting hit and then hitting the post, Ricky got back up. But after Manny’s left hand, Ricky looked as if he were dying. Man, that really scared me.
Saying that Mayweather Jr. ruined Hatton would be the same as PBF ruining De la Hoya. His win over Oscar wasn’t very impressive. We all know that. All PBF did was open Hatton’s eyes to the real world of boxing. It was Manny who closed his eyes. I don’t recall so much talk about Ricky retiring after his fight against PBF. All I heard was a chant for a rematch. After Manny, I haven’t heard of a chant for a rematch. I’ve heard more talk about retiring.
After seeing PBF on Friday Nigh Fights and I have lost all respect for him. Brian Kenny asked him some tough questions and instead of answering the questions fairly and honestly, he got upset. For the full interview : ESPN.com boxing Brian Kenny.
A quick sample of a few questions & answers: Why are you fighting JMM and not Pacman who has your old P4P title? JMM beat Pacman in both fights and besides Pacman lost 5 fights. How about Mosley? He now has your Welter title and has been calling you out for years? JMM called me out and Mosley is not a PPV draw. Kenny then reminded him that Shane has been popular for years and is a better match up for him. PBF responded that JMM has a whole country behind him and that Mosley lost to Cotto and Cotto got stopped by Cheetah. PBF then started ranting and scremiming that no matter who he fights people will find excuses.
Later on FNF Mosley was on and he looked directly into the cameras and called out PBF. He told him to stop the running and let’s get it on. Of course PBF will not accept that challenge. Why? He admitted he is looking for big $ fights only. But Mosley already had said that would be a big fight. Later Roach said he would like to fight PBF and settle the score but PBF earlier told Kenny he had issues with Arum. Roach on camera said PBF was talking about 60/40 in his favour but that was stupid because right now all of the US wants to see Pacman…NOT PBF.
Listen, he does not deserve it but give him 50/50 and he still will not take it. I wonder if Mr Perez ever watches or reads any of this instead of just fabricating his own stories to misinform.
Hatton ruined himself,lifestyle and age.Maywether just caught the Hitman at the right and place and the Pac man finished him.Hatton can no longer take a punch and thats why he should retire but lets not forget,he was great value.
I think some fighters are defeated and move on, adjust and regroup. If you look at Lennox Lewis, he was knocked out cold by McCall and Rahman but regrouped came back and made up for his mistakes by defeating them both.
I think with some fighters the fighter inside resurfaces and that hunger makes them a better fighter. With Hatton the loss has affected him, he has lost the undefeated reputation. I don’t know what he was thinking when he went in with Manny but his animal instinct was gone.
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