BoxingScene Staff Predictions - Pacquiao vs. Hatton

[Pirao]

It's so funny when people shit on Pac's wins against Hatton and DeLaHoya, when most were predicting Pacman to lose those fights

[yuppie]

Isnt hindsight a great thing.

[gopi11]

hatton TKO 2 rounds

EASY FIGHT................

LMAO!!!

[gopi11]

Wow this fight is more one sided than the Manny/Oscar fight.

People have just bought in to the whole Pacquiao hype it seems. They are looking at Manny with rose tinted glasses now. After his last two wins, he can do nothing wrong because they were one sided beat downs at higher weight classes. That sounds very impressive on its own. But when you look at the actual details and realities of the fights, there is not too much to be impressed about other than he jumped up in weight.

Everyone has been fooled. Ricky is not as talented as Manny naturally, but the fact he is the best in this division, who has faced tougher opponents than Manny his whole career and who has a style Manny has never dealt with before, is more than enough to seal the victory.

When has Manny ever faced someone as strong and as powerful as Ricky? When has he ever had to deal with a JWW's hit to the body or head? Never. Ricky has been doing this his whole career, against bigger and stronger guys than Manny - he's used to it by now.

Why is Manny this super-hulk, who has power and skill unlike any other? Because of his last two wins? Again, they proved NOTHING. What happened in his last real test, and at a lower weight? He lost by most people's accounts.

I expect this to be a very emphatic win by Ricky, and Manny can stop deluding himself and his fans and move back down to lightweight and below where he belongs.

Paulie has a better chin than pac, FFS Cotto broke his jaw and he didn't get stopped, he's been on the Canvas once in his career at a higher weight than Pac has campained at.

He dropped Diaz at 135 big fcuking deal the guy's rubbish, Holt KHTFO quicker than Pac.

Any way, let me kepp it short and sweet. Hatton by stoppage, relatively early I suspect 5th or 6th. All this talk about a enormous speed advantage for Manny is nonsense. I'll believe it when I see it. I think Ricky cuts off the ring easily against Manny, and then it's on. This will be an inside fight , one that expect Ricky to take full advantage of. He will use great use of the jab to shortin the distance, and unles Pac can catch him on the way in this is going it will be a bad night for him. Too much size and strengh, and more than enough speed. Oh yeah , and a better trainer. Peace out.

LOL!!! Where did all these limeys go?

[gopi11]

I think everyone is pretty much missing the over all view right
now. I see it like this. Manny Pacquiao looked spectacular against
David Diaz and Oscar De La Hoya but prior to them fights he fought
to a questionable decision win against a tough Juan Manuel Marquez
and Ricky Hatton is a bigger pressure fighter that is very durable and
even in his worst performances he fought hard and went toe to toe
with bigger men and didn't quit nor give up! So the notion going
around stating that lil Manny is going to stop Hatton at his
comfortable weight that NO other 140lb fighter was capable of
doing prior, is just too hard for me to believe.

Especially considering that Hatton knows how important this fight
is and that he has Floyd SR in his corner. Honestly I don't think
Hatton will allow Manny to throw all them fast punches because
Manny will be backing up most of the time. Plus, if you look at it
like this, eventhough Pauli has lil power, he still has a durable chin
and Hatton was rocking and almost dropping him with a single punch
and it could be possible that Pauli at his comfortable weight (140)
chin is more solid than Manny's because Manny has been hurt and
wobbled by a lesser puncher in Marquez and I know for sure that
Manny is not going to be able to dance around and avoid a game
Hatton without getting hit for 12Rds.

All these blabbering nonsense didn't do you any good, in fact, it went the other way around. It would've been better if you just said directly that you hate Pacquiao until you die and will root for his opponent everytime he fights, and stop with your sugarcoating $h1t...

[bojangles1987]

It's so funny when people shit on Pac's wins against Hatton and DeLaHoya, when most were predicting Pacman to lose those fights

Yeah, like I've always said you want to criticize Margarito and Mosley, fine, but you cannot criticize his career up to that point. No one was saying weight drained and past prime when they were picking Hatton, Cotto, Morales, Barrera, Oscar, etc. to knock Pac out.

[Phil Ivey]

haha I know its easy for me to criticize the predictions in hindsight, I think after the Hatton fight everyone realized he's the real deal. I picked Pac via TKO but I always thought Hatton had a shot at Pac's body and possibly knocking him out. Out of the recent wins recently by Pac I think Hatton and Cotto were the most impressive.

[» HE3R0 «]

What's to say Pacquiao will fight like he did against Marquez? I believe Manny will be more of a counter-puncher against Hatton, using Ricky's aggression against him.

Oh god...now Ive heard it all.

Oh god... you're a ****.

SAM calling burner a ****.

Nice.

[bojangles1987]

SAM calling burner a ****.

Nice.

And that's exactly what Pacquiao did, counter punch. Now Hatton is weight drained and shot and ruined and all that though.

[Pirao]

And that's exactly what Pacquiao did, counter punch. Now Hatton is weight drained and shot and ruined and all that though.

Yep. In the hater's minds he can't win, either he loses and is "exposed" or he wins and his opponents are "shot, weight drained, never that good to begin with".