Re: SPOILER - What next for Hatton? POLL?
Posted: 03 May 2009, 17:57
well I hold my opinion about the KO mate , but as I stated , unfortunately due to stream dragging, I didn't get a good view at the time.forcefraser wrote:Watch the fight again mate. I don`t think the lack of punch resistance is as much bollox as you think.NorthEastBoxingFan wrote:not sure about al this punch resistance bollox...I didn't get a good view of the 1st 2 KDs but that KO was as concussive as they come.
It would have straight KO'd 95% of fighters I think.
Point is he shouldn't have been in there with Pac in the 1st place but if he was going to be, he ought to have had his chin better protected.
In the first round he was wobbled a few times and put down twice (the second time from no clean punches either)
David Diaz ate worse than that first round all night. Look at the stick Hatton took from Mayweather before finally going down. Maybe it was just the speed of Manny, but Hatton looked spent in there and fragile as hell. Manny is not really known as a HUGE puncher, he is accurate and fast and breaks people down. What he did to Hatton was scary.
I have looked at it since and there could be something in what you say, as Hatton clearly has his chin well covered for the second knockdown but it put him over. Dodgy legs from the first perhaps? always harder to recover from a KD when you're cold.
