Is Hatton still bitter About Being Destroyed by Mayweather?
August 13th, 2009
By Scott Gilfoid: Recently, Ricky Hatton fired off a broadside attack on Floyd Mayweather commenting how Mayweather can’t sell tickets. What Hatton was referring to was Mayweather’s September 19th bout against lightweight Juan Manuel Marquez, a fight which has thus far gained very little attention in the boxing media.
What Hatton said was pretty much unnecessary, because most hardcore boxing fans can already see that it was a poor decision on Mayweather’s part to take a fight against an opponent as small as Marquez. Mayweather might have gotten a free pass had he fought an opponent a division below his welterweight fighting class, say a fighter like Timothy Bradley.
But to take on a Marquez, 35, who only recently moved up to the lightweight division within the past year, it looks bad on Mayweather’s part, like he’s looking for a fighter small enough for him to beat without too many problems. What makes Hatton seem bitter is that he felt the need to make the comment in the first place, because it seems like kicking a dog while he’s down.
Obviously, Mayweather is having problems here by his poor choice of an opponent and didn’t need someone like Hatton to pour it on and kick sand in his face while he’s already looking at a fight that will be doing poorly with the PPV audience.
Hatton, if he was completely mentally recovered from his 10th round beating at the hands of Mayweather, should be thinking of other things rather than wasting his time taking shots at Mayweather during his time of troubles. Did the loss to Mayweather hurt Hatton’s mental psyche that much that he still has to get back at Mayweather? I had a feeling that Hatton might be messed up mentally by the Mayweather fight even before it happened.
After the bout, Hatton revealed that he was emotionally upset about the loss, talking about crying a lot about the defeat. Instead of sitting down like a boxing scientist and studying what he did wrong, Hatton let his emotions get the best of him and moped about the defeat. I realized early on that Hatton was more of a primitive slugger type of fighter with average boxing skills, but I figured that he could accept and defeat without harboring on it years after.
But I’m not so sure about that now. Instead of lashing out at poor Mayweather, Hatton should be learning what he did wrong in that fight and vowing not to repeat the same mistakes twice. He’d be better for it. If he was truly over the defeat, he might want to consider lending a hand to Mayweather to help him promote the Marquez fight in any way he could.
I’m sure Hatton could think of some ways that he could be productive in helping sell some tickets for that fight. That would be real healing, I think and it would be a sign of growth and maturity for Hatton.
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Yes Yes,
I couldn’t have said it better myself.
hatton went and gave it is all what more can you ask he aint avoided the best
But Marquez started his career in featherweight and Pacquiao started his career in flyweight so why do people have no complains about Mayweather v Pacquiao (which they want to see and is not Pacquiao too small for Mayweather) but Mayweather v Marquez theirs a problem, now that’s just a contradiction in itself. Also Pacquiao’s and Marquez fight is disputed no one really knows who was the winner so let Mayweather deal with Marquez then go for Pacquiao if they both win their fights.
floyd needs to fight the winner of the cotto pacman fight then well be able to see just how superior mayweathers skills are,until then he should stop talking rubbish like hes the best ever,if you are floyd then prove it?stop picking on little guys and step up!prove ur the best,fight the best?or be quite!
pretty boy is good but he has been protected like khan he wont fight the top fighters only the ones he knows he has a chance against example hatton lower weight and marquez even lower why did he skip cotto margarito and the other top welters how can floyed be the best welter if he didnt fight any of the top 5 welters in his decision ill never understand that
I cant wait till Mayweather proves everybody wrong!..Floyd is a good damn fighter!..People say “well all he does is run”..uhh noo!..you dont just stay in one spot and take hits!..its called moving around and avoiding punches!…Just wait and see…
I’ll repeat what i said in the other article PBF was the one spoling the fight and doing most of the ILLGEAL stuff and ricky was the one getting told off for it i’ve watched the fight many times and it’s floyd starting the clinch most of the time and always falling under rickys arms god how dumb how some people be blinded by there fanboyness.
roots get over yaself ya ignorant d*k
PORTER YOU ARE A EVEN BIGGER FOOL IF YOU THINK YOU CAN STOP ME FROM DOING ANYTHING.i SAY ONCE AND I WILL SAY IT AGAIN ,YOUR GUY ,FATTON IS AN OVERATED,BIG MOUTH COWARD.EVERYTIME HE GET HIS BUT KICKED HE HAS A MILLION AND ONE EXCUSES.rIGHT NOW I THINK HE IS STILL GIDDY FROM THAT LEFT HOOK. I WOULD SAY ONE THING FOR HIM NO ONE LAY FLAT OUT ON HIS BACK LIKE HATTON
hatton didnt get destroyed he was beat yes and from the 8th round to the tenth he did pull away but up to round 6 the hbo commentators had hatton ahead by 1 point even though he had a point deducted. i had mayweather ahead by 2 points after the 7th hatton also had the problem of joe cortez who was horrific that night so he wasnt destroyed and he is friends with mayweather now and i bet hatton said that just as it is not trying have a pop at floyd. by the way floyd is the best p4p and will beat anyone!
If you don’t think Cortez got in the way of Hatton implementing his gameplan :
I advise everyone to watch round 1 again, Hatton is pressuring Mayweather backwards and throws a left hook which catches Mayweather on the side of the head and for a moment send him reeling to the ropes. Now at this point, watch Cortez positioning, he clearly obstructs Hatton from jumping on Mayweather. Who knows what would have happened if Hatton would have been allowed to pin a clearly hurt Floyd against the ropes.
For the record though, from around round 3 Floyd was outstanding and clinically shut Hatton down.
scott you have been kicking sand in hattons face since he went to fight in america mayweather is the biggest trash talker there is what go’s around comes around in my opinion.
Hatton might have stood a better chance if he hadn’t had to fight two of them!! JOE CORTEZ had his orders not to let hatton work on the inside and you could see hattons frustration!!!
it would have been diffrent fight but for that bald headed bent tw@t.
hatton is a tool. mayweather-marquez fails to sell because it is a bad match and not because floyd can’t sell. nonetheless, he has every reason to feel bitter. floyd put the firts L in his record. he was never the same after that loss.
hatton is a tool. mayweather-marquez fails to sell because of it is a bad match and not because floyd can’t sell. nonetheless, he has every reason to feel bitter. floyd put the firts L in his record. he was never the same after that loss.
good article well done.
Guess what i’m listening to – Stan, by eminem – quite appropriate when reading one of your articles about Hatton, did he not answer your letters or something Scott?
ROOTS don’t ever post on this site again you talk utter rubbish.
Gilfoid you big baby stop over-exaggerating, Ricky said “he is a wonderful fighter but he can’t sell tickets”
Now considering Floyd is the mouthiest guy in the boxing world its hilarious people are getting so defensive. Face it as great as Mayweather is, people are only interested in watching him fight a tough opponent…………and alot of those people do so just to hope he gets knocked out.
What ever that loser says does`nt matter Floyd still left him flat on his back.People talk about,but that loser has got the biggest mouth in boxing.
i think the cotto and pacman fight is boring and fix to me.For cotto to win he need to knock this guy out if not i think they will give manny the win by points even if cotto wins by points they will still give it to manny
Ricky Hatton always makes excuses as to why he lost. Against Mayweather it was ‘the referee fault’ against Mayweather it was ‘running around and not following the game plan’
Whatever next, ‘he hit me too hard’?
What a tool this guy is, an utter helmet
no matter how many postponements or series of HBO 24/7 productions about mayweather fight, the fight will still not sell. You cannot blame the money man, he’s claiming that he’s the best and never loose, he want’s to keep it that way, that’s why the next fight that he will be aiming for after winning with marquez, is a lucero fight after that nonito donaire, then after that returning to amateur boxing. So great, isn’t it?
mARQUEZ ACTUALLY CALLED OUT MAYWEATHER.