Hatton Quotes

"I enjoyed this fight a lot more than the last time I was here," he said.

"I got frustrated in this fight, but then I hurt him early and then Floyd Sr. got me back to being me."

“Bearing in mind the awkwardness of the opponent I have only been with Floyd seven weeks and the new things I've been trying to work on, I've got to be happy with my performance.”

"I slowed down, I was more composed."


Malignaggi Quotes

"I'm better than this," Malignaggi said after the fight was by his trainer Buddy McGirt. "Maybe I wouldn't have won on points, but I'm better than being stopped."

"I wanted it stopped the round before," he said. "You could see him hurting with every punch. I wanted him around to fight another day, and a couple more rounds could have done much damage," Malignaggi's promoter, Lou DiBella said. “People asked me before the fight whether Floyd was going to make the difference, I thought zebras don't change their stripes, but tonight the friggin' zebra looked like a racehorse.”

"The reason I stopped the fight was that we were losing," he said. "My guy couldn't hurt him. We had five or six minutes left, and all it takes is one big punch. I'd rather have him be angry at me and be OK," Buddy McGirt said.