Terry D wrote: Stop being a mard-arse, I'm sure most fighters who have been KO'd fancy a post-fight beer.
That has to be the most stupid comment I've read on here
Terry, I read your articles on the "preacher" where he tries to come across as a master tactician, but the footage from Hatton's changing room looked a shambles
You haven't been looking that hard because there were plenty worse made last night.
Billy is a good tactical thinker and able to show a fighter any mistakes made and how to correct them. As he has done with Matthew Macklin. So writing him off, after all his years in the sport, the ups and the downs, is slightly more than stupid.
As for the changing room. Pre-fight Hatton invites a chaotic changing room. In the fight itself he seemed to get locked into a single tactic that failed when he got hit with 4 consecutive right hands at the end of round one. Graham's advice of "stop smothering your work" was hardly telling him to do what he did was it?
Plus you latch onto a comment, call it stupid and then talk about it being stupid for reasons that are nothing to do with the comment itself. I was saying Hatton is entitled to a post-fight beer and if the likes of some object on the basis of what is neurologically safe perhaps they should object to fights like Macca-Gunn which certainly was not made on the doctors orders but was, rather, a guy being flung to a lion in order to prop-up a bill. This makes some seem a little hypocritical, no?
It would be preferable for Hatton to shave a circle into his hair, don monks robes and devote himself to the pursuit of chastity, and the ascetic life, post-fight but seeing as that is not happening let the guy drown his sorrows without people turning into hypocritical mard-arses.
I can't think of anyone who didn't object to Macca-Gunn
Would you support the A&E in Manchester if they don't observe overnight any patients with head injuries but told them to go and have a few beers?
Has Macklin improved? He looked like he was trying to impersonate Hatton as Jamie Moore outboxed and then sparked him
I loved Terry's anecdote about his cider drinking chum.
It reminds me of the one, "my nan's 93 and smokes like a trooper".
Maybe Billy the preacher should make some extra roll-ups for Ricky
stujones wrote:So its all down to Hatton's drinking, not Floyd Mayweather.
So we have now - Joe Cortez is too blame, Ricky's mis tactics is too blame, Ricky falsely think Floyd underestimated him is too blame, Ricky being a faded fighter is too blame (29 years of age and criticised for being over protected for most of those years), Ex Super Featherweight Floyd being too big for Ricky is too blame.... Shall we throw in any more - Hatton thinking of DLH?, Hatton passive smoking of Billy Graham's fags? Hatton not having a sex ban?
Anyother.
Here is a novel one - Perhaps Floyd Mayweather being the best damn fighter in the planet.... and would beat 99% of Welters in a more convincing fashion.
Valid point, but too many "too blames" with too many Os in to, except for "Floyd being too big" made it difficult to read.
