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Guys:
Goddamit did I want Hatton to win that fight. Mayweather is unquestionably skilled but
his bullsh*t tactic of 'hit-hold, hit-hold' is the death of the sport. I swear to God, the guy
has yet to be challenged and show us his true heart. Guys like Duran and Hagler and Leonard
and Hearns used to just go balls-to-wall and turn their souls inside out in that ring. We're now
at a point in the fight game where a KO is the only sure line to victory and every fighter now seems
to have mastered the art of 'out-pointing' his opponent. This was one of those rare ones where a Mayweather left hook ended Hatton's night early. Still, in my mind, Floyd Mayweather has never been in a war and that's what I'd love to see. I'm really doing my best not to take anything away from the guy
because he's 39-0 and I can't see anybody out there that can beat him...but, I just don't buy it.
I think a Hatton/Mayweather rematch may yield a different result because Hatton looks like a guy who won't get beat twice but that KO makes the prospect of them lacing it up again, seem remote.
Weird guest at the crib the other night. Harvey Weinstein, whom I had never met, showed up
to watch the fight at my undersized little crash pad in Brentwood. He was as big a beer drinking
Hatton booster as the rest of us, so we all had a blast. A lot of barbecue got eaten, various illegal odors filled my home and the rain claimed a few casualties by way of bump and bruise as both the drunk and the stoned attempted to cross my patio which is notoriously slick in wet weather.
In all, it was a good night. I just wished Hatton had landed one good shot...a single, conscious-altering blow that pinholes your whole world and wakes up every last bit of blood in your body. Then we would've seem some real fire, instead of the grappling match with the occasional punch peppered in that typified that fight.
JC
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