Hatton vs Malignaggi!

stinka said:
personally i think with an unbiased ref its at least 50/50
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are you remotely serious? It wasn't remotely close, at all, and Hatton was holding, constantly, and he really wasn't very good.

This fight was a joke, a guy that has knocked out 5 guys, 3 were his first 3 fights years and years and years ago. He's been a club boxer for ages, slightly hard to actually stop but zero threat at all. He's been a filler boxer for people to fight for a long time. I don't even think Hatton looked very good tbh, it was clear, about 30 seconds into the fight that Mali had no power, no ability to knock him out. Of all the fights Hatton has had this is the one where he literally did not, really did not have to defend and really should have been throwing combinations 2-3 rounds in and had him down half way through. Mali's hand is clearly worse than ever, he seemingly threw 2 "big" rights and shortly after barely tapped with it for the rest of the fight. Yes he lasted well against Cotto, but he wasn't remotely that bad against Cotto, this is a guy that was just hoping to wait a couple more paydays before giving up.

Fans were on poor form at the end, booing a guy who said Hatton fully deserved it, thanked the crowd but only said the fight should never have been stopped, when he's completely right. He wasn't hurt, Hatton wasn't even seemingly close to really hurting him, not long to go and really ridiculous to stop the fight, especially as after that he's not getting any big payday fights anymore.

But I really wouldn't mind seeing one of our english guys fight someone in his prime, whose good, and not a freaking joke. Roy Jones is so past it, its a joke, Hyde's fight, the opponent was so poor it was a joke. Mali, again so past it, literally a one armed boxer. Equivilent of watching Dwane Chambers go win a race against a one legged man.


Frankly for Hatton to be truly worldclass he needs to be a better boxer, simple as that, he's not a combo's guy, he's a brawler, he's all effect and frankly, little quality. his connection stats were very poor for a guy that barely moved. Not to mention the guy ducked in towards Hatton with basically every exchange of blows, a uppercut into him at any point would have probably knocked him down easily, but somehow he never managed it. The reason Mayweather battered him was he didn't just throw random punches constantly, he followed up big punches with more pain. Every time Mali was close to hurt he failed to be able to hit the target to finish it.
 
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Pigeon_Killer said:
WOW! There's a surprise. A British boxer puts in a half decent performance and drunkenmaster craps all over it.
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For once in his life he's actually right. Hatton didn't really look all that, Mali was seriously poor and all Hatton did was get the basics right.

Put Hatton up against Floyd again and I think we'd all see the same result as last time.
 
RockLobster said:
Haven't you worked him out yet lol. He always posts after a fight has finished NEVER before as he doesn't want to look stupid and I'm sure he's American. :p
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boohoo, i posted after a fight, because i didn't want to talk about a fight for weeks before it happened. Wow, also posting about a fight after a fight is the logical thing to do, next time I'll tell you what happens before the fight if that will make you happy.

Its nothing to do with him being english, or not, boxing in general is pretty poor these days, theres the odd great fight with some great talent on show. The Hopkins fight was one of the better recently, a pure class performance, not great opposition but not terrible.

But how can you say Hatton was great when he fought a one handed boxer, who frequently breaks his right hand when he throws it in fights, so he doesn't throw it. He's so many operations in its a joke now. Seriously this is a guy whose hand is so weak he often breaks it on the first big punch. It was a joke fight from start to finish, really his uppercut was a great punch but he has no power. He literally can't train full out because he'll simply break his hand in training. THat means the guy ISN'T doing really heavy bag work with his right, its impossible for him to train, he really shouldn't be a boxer anymore. If he was a racehorse he would have been taken out back a put out of his misery about 5 fights ago. Hatton, beat a heavy bag essentially, one that didn't punch back. He threw 25 heavy rights in the fight IIRC, and landed 2 or 3 i think it was. I'm sorry but thats not a fight.

Mayweather was great, Hopkins last fight was great, Margarito was a good fight, other than that there hasn't been much in the last few years tbh. Klitcho is a bum, the heavyweight division makes me cry these days.
 
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