Hatton vs Floyd Mayweather JR - ITS ON
 

Mayweather just said he'd come out of retirement to fight Hatton. Which was pretty much the only stumbeling block between the two fighting was Mayweathers resistance. Now its happening.

No date. But lets go ahead and talk about it.

Dang, well it'd be awesome and now Hatton has destroyed Castillo the money will be HUGE

Be a fantastic fight think Mayweather would take him though, be a fight I'd certainly pay for

Boxing is horrible..

But speaking of Mayweather, when's he gonna fight Chuck Liddell, you know, cause he said he could whoop him and all??

If it was boxing only, i'm positive Mayweather would work him over.

He said he could beat Chuck under MMA rules..

Floyd Mayweather would say day was night ffs, ignore him.

Liddell and any other MMA guy worth his salt would destroy FMJ in the octagon just like FMJ would destroy Liddell and any other MMA guy in the ring, no arguments please.

I wouldn't say any MMA fighter as alot of guys come from a boxing/kick boxing background..

Liddell being one of those..

Any MMA fighter could catch FMJ with that one lucky punch (though that is yet to happen as we all know) but none would have a chance if he decided to go to school on them, he's a technical virtuoso, he has great power, superb reflexes and is ridiculously quick, Liddell wouldn't have a chance.

Oh and again dont get me wrong here, MMA guys would school FMJ too, sure he could deck plenty if they actually tried to outstrike him, but most would be smart enough to take it to the mat where he'd be totally fucked.

I'd be more excited for this fight if I knew Mayweather wouldn't jab n' run all night.

Both turn it on for big time fights but I think Hatton would beat Mayweather. Hatton destroyed Castillo while I felt Mayweather lost his first fight with Castillo.

The only time I thought Hatton looked awful in a fight was the Collazo fight, Collazo gave Hatton a heck of a fight and even knocked him down in the 12th rd. If I am correct HBO gave Collazo the fight.

How does this turn into an MMA topic? This fight could be HUGE for boxing, I am hyped already.

It's gonna be a horrible fight. One jabs and runs, the other throws and holds.

That's the only thing boxers can do..

Its gonna be a hell of a match- My prediction: Mayweather tko round 7. Hatton is powerfull granted but way to slow to hang with mayweather's speed.

Predictions anybody?

Mayweather has no chance of knocking Hatton out. NONE! Might get a decision but no chance of a win before the final bell.

Hatton's camp offered Mayweather $10 million to fight in England.

<font color=white>Ricky's gonna slap his lips off. Mayweather's got a real big mouth (and not in the fun way) and seeing him flat out would be beautiul :) </font>

Hell yeah! Its time he gets brought down to earth bigtime!

Well its confirmed its on gonna be a fantastic fight.

Hatton will win me thinks.

Hatton would win I say, the fight will be key though.

Depending of weight and venue, I'd bet on an underdog Hatton knocking out Mayweather. He is gonna get hit like he has never been hit in his life and Mayweather only has speed on Hatton. Hatton fought bigger punchers and never has been rocked. Mayweather's best bet is jab and run. All the combos (that land!) will come from the Brit.

ITS OFFICIAL! December 8th.

All Mayweather had to do was say he wanted the fight and this would have happend like 2 years ago. Hatton will be moving to Mayweathers weight.


Fight goes the distance. Mayweather wins a decision.

what changed?

Hatton by spilt decision in the biggest boxing match between 2 UNDEFEATED fighters since De La Hoya/Trinidad in Sept 99.

You've lost me. Hatton will be the underdog going in with the bookies but Mayweather won't KO him.

Fantastic analysis there

I'm sorry. I misread your first qoute. Thought it said no way Hatton will knock Mayweather out.

If Mayweather wins, then its another huge win for his legacy and he might think about retirement (even though theres still some HUGE money fights out there for him still in diff weight classes rematch with Oscar, Taylor, Winky, Mosley, or maybe even go back down and weight and fight Cotto.) If Hatton wins then I think it should make him a mainstream boxing star and possibly elevate him to the #1 Pound for Pound Fighter out there,

Mayweather in a DLH rematch or a possible fight with Taylor (I can't see this happening) are the only fights out there for him aside from Hatton.

At the end of the day, it will be decided in the ring.

Ricky will slap the taste right out of Mayweathers mouth. Reckon it could go the distance....but I'll be looking for Ricky knocking him on his arse in one of the later rounds.

Friends in the UK who is more over Hatton or Calgzahe?

I think if Mayweather and Taylor ever fought that Mayweather would win even though Taylors a larger fighter. Taylor barely got past Cory Spinks who is a decent fighter but someone Taylor should have rolled past.

What if it goes to the judges? They sit outside.

Hatton. It's not even close. Hatton hasn't even fought on free TV yet either. Calzaghe is poorly promoted. If you asked someone if they knew who Joe Calzaghe was, they might be able to tell you but they couldn't tell you anything about his fights or anything. Hatton is more of a normal guy outside the ring and very fan friendly. Nobody dislikes him.

Of course, there are outside influences in every walk of life, but they're a good bunch of lads and I trust them to do their best.

How difficult is it to promote a guy who has been champion for 10 years and is undefeated?

Apparently, quite hard.

Hatton does seem like a great guy.

You never know with the boxing judges. They can exactly see a fight totally different than most analyists and fans. The perfect example was the first Lewis/Holyfield fight. Lewis in almost every1s opinion cruised to an convincing victory. The judges however seen it totally different. While 1 had Lewis winning, another judge had it a draw and another had Holyfield winning and thus ended in a draw. Whitaker/Chavez is another perfect example of what are the judges thinking?

It was over 10 years before Calzaghe fought on free TV and he also happened to be a great champion in an era without major superstars. Had he been around 5 years earlier, he would probably be a Hall of Fame fighter by now.

People were hyping Lacy to be a major superstar, but Calzaghe just owned him.

I'm going to see the next Calzaghe fight.

That Calzaghe fight might be his toughest test to date.

Def because his opp is like 50 something and 0 aint he?

<font color=white>39. 29 ko's.</font>

If Calzaghe wins that then there might be that megafight against Hopkins for either the Light Heavyweight or Super Middleweight title. Hopkins wants the fight to be held at Yankee Stadium.

Money is on Hatton, I've liked him for ages. Shocking how long it takes to go thru the ranks in boxing, I remember him owning here for ages. I like his fights. He's such a fuckin' chav tho it's funny. Him and Rooney would make a great comedy duo.

Won't happen. Calzaghe was gonna fight him years ago in Cardiff and Hopkins turned around and said his $4 million purse wasn't enough even though it would be the biggest pay day of his career. Calzaghe won't fight Hopkins in the States.

ESPN will heavily promote the Mayweather/Hatton fight.

The more i think about it. I think this is gunna be Mayweathers epic.

boxers dont' retire.

The 24/7 stuff is on Sky Sports this week.

Dunno...I cannot see Hatton winning this, Mayweather has never been caught offguard before, why will this be any different? If he decides to brawl then yeah Hatton will have a good shout, but again, when has Mayweather ever done that?

It'll likely just be another technical masterclass. I mean most people I know were spitting blood at the DLH decision, and its been shown that despite throwing like half as many punches as DLH he hit considerably more, thats fucking skill.

I like Ricky, and PBF is an egotistical twat who needs putting in his place, but I can't see this going any other way than another Mayweather victory.

Never gonna forget the way he fuckin destroyed Arturo Gatti and Sharmba Mitchell either.

Hatton was at his best in the Tszyu fight and he's been rocky ever since imo.

Yeah he looked like shit agains Castillo :roll: Mayweather couldn't finish him by the way and Hatton did it in 4 rounds.

lol I was gonna say 'apart from the Castillo fight':D


And maybe not, but PBF beat Castillo twice did he not? And Diego Corrales DeMarcus Corley, Mitchell, Gatti, Zab Judah, Oscar.....Thats hardly by accident

I know very little of boxing compared to you guys, all I know is Mayweather is a dick.

Go Hatton!

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Ricky is god. Poor old Sky Sports News.

Jeez even I'm nervous for the fight now. Hopefully Hatton kills this fucker.

omg I am shitting myself with anticipation, gonna get down to the bookies tomorrow lunchtime and size up the various odds

I seriously believe Hatton is gonna win by KO.

I'm tryiong to decide if I should go somewhere and watch this or Ultimate Fight Night..

Prolly do Ultimate Fight Night cause boxing tends to be expensive overhyped shit..

lol I dunno anything about boxing but I just saw Hatton's promo at the weigh in and I love him.

Fuck I wish people would stop jinxing our Ricky:foc:

Watching that weigh in live yesterday was funny as fuck. The crowd were insane. The guy trying to read the odds for the match made the mistake of telling them to be quite and listen :lol: got drowned out with song and jeers, his face was a picture :lol: Jeering Hopkins and singing Knock him Out to Calzage, awesome.

If the crowd at the fight are anything like this it will be incredible. And it's not ike Mayweather is a fan favourite in America anyway.

Gonna be an incredible fight, I can't pick a winner.

It could be a ridiculously boring fight if Mayweather chooses to box actually, if it goes 12 rounds you have to figure it'll be a Mayweather win on points, Ricky is only gonna win this by KO.

Hatton doesn't really do boring fights. And the people's champ is winning the title tonight :D I'm so glad the TUF finale is on Sunday night here.

I'll be sure to post all the results before you get a chance to watch it..

:foc:

Cant wait for this. already ordered it, got beer...should be a good night. Obviously on Hattons side, fucking hate mayweather.

Knock yourself out. I won't be logging on :D

I got pwned

:(

God bless illegal feeds :D

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If anyone needs some links.....you'll need to get SopCast

I am watching UFC, but if anyone is watching this fight, post updates..

:y:

Mayweather wins by stoppage in the 10th

Hatton was always trying to force the fight, but Mayweather's defence was excellent, kept Hatton from striking close, then mixed it up, the punches which laid out Hatton were insane.

Referee was really poor, allowed Mayweather to duck away, hold Hatton all the time, really didn't let the fight go. But he was the better fighter, no doubt about that one.

I hate all the hugging in boxing..

Well fuck

Hatton was made to look like the bum he is by Mayweather

Definitely a good fight. Glad Mayweather won.

I'll hug you good. :mad:

Maywheather vs Cotto would be an unbelievably good fight.

Stick to talking about tiddlywinks or something. You clearly know shit about boxing.



In regards to the fight, I was absolutely shocked Hatton got KO'd. Mayweather is the bollocks. Fair play to him. Fought like a cunt early on but I blame the referee for allowing him to hold, wrestle and elbow instead of allowing both fighters to box out of the clinches. The point Hatton was docked was a fucking disgrace. Cortez should not be allowed to ref big fights again. Total bottle job. The sight of him posing with Mayweather after the fight makes me sick.

Hatton is a total class act though. True people's champion. He'll fuck up everyone at 140lbs.

Some of the scoring was shocking. The judges had it nearly a shut out for Mayweather. HBO had Hatton winning after 6 rounds. So did I.

Renaissance man, fuck off. And in response to your thread abotu it sucking to be english right now, those fans that went to support hatton and made their presence felt made meproud to be english regardless of the result. When would you ever see your countries fans supporting like that even in defeat, eh????!

Oh and how comes all the judges were biased americans? Hows that fair?

Yeah, faggoty refs ruin everything. He should know better than to pose with the winner.

Absolutely no way Hatton was ever in the lead beyond the first couple of rounds in my opinion, Maywather was the class act that he's always been and I think to the surprise of the entire UK, pretty humble in victory, all the bravado and ott trashtalking is an act. Ricky is still a champ like Floyd said, who knows maybe he'll go for Cotto or even Junior Witter now, doubt we'll see Floyd fight again, its a great shame but damn, he's the best of the best and has nothing else to prove.

For the record I think PBF would destroy Cotto, good as Cotto looks to be.

I was shocked at the KO too though, I thought Mayweather would get less involved than he did. Thing is he doesn't need to stand back, he's so damn good he can pummel you on the backfoot whilst still being two steps too quick for you to connect with anything.

Mayweather was a lot more successful up close too, Hatton was trying to take it to him but ended up coming off the worse for it in the end. Also he had Mayweather realing pretty early on, it wasn't gonna be a KO but I felt like he had an opportunity to lay on some damage (physical and psychological) early, coulda made a big difference.

Thing with Mayweather though is that he really can adapt to anything you throw at him, nothing but respect for the guy, I just can't bring myself to hate him because generally he acts like a pro and a gent when it matters...Aside from the Baldomir fight, but hey, he clearly had/has more respect for our Ricky than he let on!

Great fight all in all, I hope Hatton can get himself a light welter title shot next and go out on top but I don't wanna see him turning into a Jeff Lacy (he looked awful last night) or even worse, Roy Jones.

I had Hatton winning up til the 7th by 1 point. Mayweather turned it on after that though. Mayweather only looked better close because Cortez was on Hatton everytime he tried something in a clinch. He didn't allow him to box his way out of a clinch like he does one single time.

Hatton can get a title shot at the snap of a finger. All of the 140lbs champions would love to fight him for the pay day. Might as well smack Witter around now since it's a big British fight.

heard a rumour he is going to fight Isaac "The Angel" Hlatshwayo early next year. Good for another spot of pom bashing

After a bout of whiskey chashers me and my friends had Hatton up by over 300 hundred points

When Cotto vs Maywheather happens in spring 2008 ( mark it down its gunna happen ). It could be one of the greatest fights ever.

I truly think Mayweather is done. He has nothing left to prove

Mayweather has absolutely no reason to fight Cotto, and a fight with him will never top the Hatton fight, it was in the making and on every boxing fan's mind ever since Hatton beat Kostya Tszyu, and thus it'll never have the same atmosphere or build up and people just won't care about it enough for him to bother, he's gone out on a huge high note with a huge international audience watching, why bother with Cotto? And it won't be as lucrative either, so money isn't a reason, not that he needs anymore anyway.

I don't understand the whole debate in this topic...Mayweather won by knock out?