[Tony2005]

Im not to sure that Mayweather is the right man for the job here...i dont think changing trainers so late in a career is the right move maybe just a knee jerk reaction to the defeat and the sloopy performance in his last fight..

Now lets be honest here...Hatton would never have beaten Mayweather its not a case of tactics etc its a case of him not being good enough..

Lots of fighters have changed trainers and some three or four times...I remember the conversation after Benn lost to Watson about training fighters... Brian Lynch had taken Benn from the amateurs right up to be the comenwealth champion and Lynch's training methods had always worked and made Benn into the most popular and sucsessful fighter of those times...

But of course after the Watson defeat people like Ambrose Mendy and Frank Maloney were looking for a scapegoat to blame for what was a terrible performance ...and of course Lynch was the man they blamed..

Now i was there on the Sunday when Benns orders were to box his way into the fight cut down the ring and DONT expend too much energy in the first three or four rounds......Well that fell on deaf ears and Benn came out trying to blast Watson out early and then ran out of gas and was knocked out by a jab in the 6th....

Taking him to Vic Andretti in the states was more luck then good management and of course we all know he won the WBO title there beating Doug De Witt before losing on to Eubanks in his first fight back here in England.

Anyway back to tonights fight it wouldnt suprise me if after a couple of rounds if things are not going to plan we will see Hatton revert to the old style that got him to the top of the tree and all Mayweathers new plans will go out of the window..

As i said in the earlier post Mallignaggi is a lightish puncher but Hatton struggles to get down to this weight and looks very tight at it ...This could prove a problem as at this weight Hatton has been prone to very bad cuts and i think that in a long fight this may come back to haunt him towards the later rounds and could lead to his downfall...

My earlier prediction still stands and im sure the fight will live upto expectations and will have a few twists before the winner is announced...

I will post a couple of links later today....