If Khan retires now, Would he be ranked higher than Ricky Hatton?

If he beats Bradley and unifies, yes. Otherwise No.

No one is going to beat May or Pac any time soon because their technical skills are on another level right now. Wait for them to age a bit and we can talk about beating them.

In the mean time, you don't need to have beaten either to achieve greatness, but that's the reason Morales will also be remembered, because he was the last guy to take down Pac.

 

Lol quite a random observation.

Yeah as a teacher I have a lot of free time over the summer so consequently spend more time posting on here.

 

:-( you've just done it again. Rating him for getting beat by fighters who were out of his league! Stop doing that. Try looking at who hatton actually did beat and ul find his list is nothing to write home about. Can't keep living off tszyu the guy was old washed up and didn't give a toss anymore by the time he fought hatton.

Hatton cashed out against floyd and pac took the money and a ready made excuse in a no lose situation in both fights. Rather than face dangerous risky rivals like Torres, Holt, bradley and yes even witter!

 

HEs closing in... Its close one or 2 more showings like last nigt and he catches or passes him.

 

yes, hatton lost to fighters out of his league, that is a fair statement, where as khan lost to somewhere who was nowhere near his league, so tell me, whos defeat/s are worse? hatton to the best, khan to a nobody?

im not being funny, i was a huge witter fan, its a fight i wanted to see but hatton would have whooped him. so your now dissing hatton for trying to defeat the best? instead he should have fought inferior fighters like holt, or bradley who just ducked khan.

 

I voted Hatton. But now that I think it through, it's actually closer than I initially thought. Does Khan bring the same atmosphere as Hatton did though? Hell no. I really miss the big Hatton fights. He has the all time best following ever.

 

Did Hatton never fought those 2, both kicked his ass.

Can has 2 belts. If he can do better than Hatton at WW then hes greater IMO

 

Come on Dogg?
Hatton of course for now.

 

Well khan didn't make any excuse after he lost he got back on his feet made the changes he needed and got on with it and now look where he is. When hatton lost he made a pack of excuses and retired.

 

Posting on ESB is great. I cannot believe some of the top posters are near the 50,000 level. A lot of fun. By the way, both my parents are teachers. It is a great profession. My occupation is not that great or important, but I was always proud of my parents. take care.

 

No...

 

hatton was already at the end of his career, too many wars, punch resistance fading etc, khan is still relatively young in terms of his career, if the same thing happened 10 years after it did, would khan pick himself up or would it be time to call it a day?

 

Too many wars? You make him sound like erik morales hatton only fought 2 top fighters and they embarrassed him. And he was only 29 so what do you mean the end if his career?! It ended cos pacquiao almost killed him.

Still...I suppose those 40 WBU defences at the MEN against world beaters like Eamon McGee took it out of him:yep

 

Shhhhhhsshhhh, those were Hatton's prime years

 

whats top fighter got to do with it? gatti v ward was a war and neither were top fighters or are you disputing that