RICKY HATTON: "I can't stop crying."

[hulme#1]

Ricky's family was financially secure BEFORE this fight. I think he REALLY wanted this one. Throughout the pre-fight, he said that he dreamed of this fight FOR YEARS.

Yep. I don't think he can get his head around the idea that you need more than 43 straight wins and a profound belief in destiny to beat Floyd Mayweather. That's what I think is hurting him - he believed, in something bigger than just his ring abilities. And he prepared, hard. And none of it was enough.


If you watch the HBO coverage, there's a moment before Floyd's ring-walk when Ricky is turned facing a turnbuckle while salve is being applied - as the Floyd highlights reel kicks in on the big screen, his eyes flicker briefly upward to see what the boos are greeting and you can literally see the weight of all that belief in fate suddenly run through him with a grimace and a shiver. It's a small thing, but telling. He'd clearly placed a level of emotional importance, 10, maybe 20 times above that of a fight, on beating Floyd.
So I agree there's no joking around when he talks about how bad he's hurting right now.

[Benny Leonard]

Yep. I don't think he can get his head around the idea that you need more than 43 straight wins and a profound belief in destiny to beat Floyd Mayweather. That's what I think is hurting him - he believed, in something bigger than just his ring abilities. And he prepared, hard. And none of it was enough.


If you watch the HBO coverage, there's a moment before Floyd's ring-walk when Ricky is turned facing a turnbuckle while salve is being applied - as the Floyd highlights reel kicks in on the big screen, his eyes flicker briefly upward to see what the boos are greeting and you can literally see the weight of all that belief in fate suddenly run through him with a grimace and a shiver. It's a small thing, but telling. He'd clearly placed a level of emotional importance, 10, maybe 20 times above that of a fight, on beating Floyd.
So I agree there's no joking around when he talks about how bad he's hurting right now.

He also thought he had FLoyd psychologically. He mentioned how Floyd suddenly shut up and he asked him why, Floyd said "because you aren't saying anything' so Ricky thought to himself "ah ha, gotchya." Truth is, Floyd just said, "**** it...I did enough to promote this fight, no sense in doing anymore if he doesn't want to do his part."

[hulme#1]

Ricky bullies people and he found he couldn't bully Floyd, a fighter that was not 35 and as inactive as Kostya. They miscalculated.

Right, and that's where I felt he slipped up in the pre-fight hijinx also, by bringing his bullboy style to the promotional build-up.
Instead of just revelling in his underdog status, he made the curious choice of constantly pointing out how (almost) everybody - from fans, British and American alike, to disgruntled ex-fighters, to small children and house-pets - was on his side, as if trying to ram it down the Mayweather camp's collective throat for intimidatory effect.
Which behaviour isn't exactly consistent with the humble underdog-made-good prototype he champions.
He himself showed a level of ego and made himself the bully, when the egotist and bully's role was supposed to be Floyd's.
And in the end, Floyd was exposed as a much better man than people had been led to believe.


But while I feel Ricky was somewhat wrongheaded in his approach to the build-up, I also realise that he was effectively in the same boat as Floyd, trying to hype a fight, to capture imaginations and emotions.

The difference, I think, is that he ultimately read a lot more into the promotional ballyhoo than Floyd did or ever does.

[hulme#1]

He also thought he had FLoyd psychologically. He mentioned how Floyd suddenly shut up and he asked him why, Floyd said "because you aren't saying anything' so Ricky thought to himself "ah ha, gotchya." Truth is, Floyd just said, "**** it...I did enough to promote this fight, no sense in doing anymore if he doesn't want to do his part."

Bingo. Pretty much what I was alluding to here...

The difference, I think, is that he ultimately read a lot more into the promotional ballyhoo than Floyd did or ever does.

[Migs]

I said that he WANTED to win. He knew he couldn't beat Floyd.

Why do you think that he barely threw any punches? He got petrified.

Dios shut the **** up man, he wasn't petrified. He was putting on all the pressure in first 5 rounds until he lost his cool, started getting tagged and then backed off....hardly petrified, quit ****ing exaggerating. Petrified is watching ****ers run in circles around the ring with their back to the opponent ducking as they scamper. Also, he barely threw any punches because your boy was doing the clinching. Mayweather did a great job, but stop making him seem like he's ****ing Mike Tyson.

[jack_the_rippuh]

Leonard Ellerbe, Roger Mayweather, and Floyd ran a train on Ricky's mom.

[ml2niceguy]

lol he s still tight but i knew he couldnt **** wit floyd

[Horus]

HATTON PUT EVERYTHING HE HAD IN THIS FIGHT AND LOST.....


AND HE LOST TO A GUY LIKE MAYWEATHER....who told him he was a piece of **** and he treated him like a Piece of ****... ALL THOUGHOUT THE PRESS TOUR...


AND he then WHEN THEY fought he PROVED HATTON WAS A PIECE OF ****.... by Koing Him in a TRoubling way....


So now HATTON FEELS like guess what

"A PIECE OF ****.."

and thats how it going to be for the rest of his life......

Because no win, if any that he will get will amount to the LOST he suffer to mayweather.....

THAT BROKE HIM DOWN Mentally.....

His still Crying...!!!!



Hatton has the CASE of Mayweather blues..

He is still Crying...

[squealpiggy]

Scoring fights is going to be contentious, but I'm siding with Lederman on his card. For a change. I felt Ricky controlled the action through four rounds of the first six, but that's all he did, and he lost a point in one of those rounds. There was a marked difference in his approach in the sixth and in the seventh and subsequent rounds, and he said himself afterwards that he lost his rag. It really showed.

Of course we can argue did Ricky win one round, did he win three, but one thing that didn't happen is a colossal beatdown a la Mayweather-Gatti or Calzaghe - Lacy in which none of the rounds were even close. I think Mayweather's impressive victory is being repainted by some into something it was not, and in all honesty I don't think we need to rewrite history here. Mayweather did a good enough job and was magnaminous enough in victory to not need the favour.

[cuzfozzy]

its obvious hatton and graham did a nice acting job before teh fight
on the night of the f ight you could tell they came only for the pay day
instead of fighting
hatton already started crying in the ring
complaining about this and that instead of fighting ... hardly a warrior
at least he got paid
after the fight graham goes oh we knew he was too small
hatton is an insult to true warriors of the ring
hatton was not facing no mcclelland puincher type
watch nigel benn vs mcclelland
nigel benn is a true warrior