hatton does NOT become pound for pound champ if he beats pacquaio

If Hatton wins he is P4P champ and he will get the P4P belt.

 

because pacs a 140 fighter now and isn't moving back down. otherwise with your way of thinking pac can lose as many fights as he likes and stay #1 as long as he stays at 140.

 

Pacquiao is still unproven above 130. So that fact is that Pac's number1 ranking is still mostly based off his performances at 130 and to a much much lesser extent 135 and 142

So if Hatton does beat Pac, it'll be more of an indicator that Pacquiao should not have been considered p4p#1 once he moved passed LW, rather than Hatton being the best fighter in the world.

that being said I think Pac is the goods, even above 130, and I don't think Hatton has what it takes to beat him.

 

Yeah, two things; Maxim wasn't regarded as one of the best around at that time. Losses were also less of a deal back then.

Hatton has been a consisten top-ten placed fighter, and with a win over the no.1, deserves to be no.1

If Holt or Bradley beat Pac, then no, but if Hatton wins, yes.

If not, definitely no.2 until JMM or Hopkins do something, and if Hatton beats Marquez then he would be no.1

 

Not to mention, Pac hasn't lost since the first Morales fight. Does this not carry some decent weight?

 

Hatton at best cracks top 5 depending on his and pac's performance during fight night. If Pac loses, I think JMM deserves to get number 1 spot.

 

a sad day in boxing if hatton and his style becomes p4p best in the world. just watched his fight and its not easy on the eye, a lot of fouling holding really bad. i cant beleive people want to root for this guy.

 

I'm getting annoyed with Hatton's obsession of being titled "best P4P".

Whilst the likes of PBF (retired or not) and JMM are still breathing; Hatton won't ever be best P4P.

 

If Pac loses this guy will be number one if he isnt already.

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Are there many previous examples of a P4P number one fighter losing a fight and retaining his number one position that you can cite for us?

 

read my response to this point.

Maxim nor Ruiz were not considred amongst the best P4P when they beat Robinson and Jones respectively. Hatton is already amongst the top ten fighters, beating the no.1 would elevate him right up.

B-Hop was no.10, beat Trinidad who was no.2, then went to no.1.

Hatton is no,.8

 

These are would haves though. There are no actual examples that I can think of where a P4P number one lost and retained that position. I'm not sure Jones actually was number one going into the Ruiz fight (at least on the Ring list). If he'd have lost Ruiz wouldn't have been number one, of course, but then neither would Jones.

I asked you why you think Pacquiao would retain the number one position as you said in the post I quoted. Whether Hatton would be number one instead is a different matter.

IMO Hatton goes without a doubt top three if he wins clearly and at least has claims to the number one spot against Marquez and Hopkins. The most relevant historical comparison would be Hopkins beating Trinidad, who was stepping up in weight. Before the fight Trinidad was two or three in the P4P lists and Hopkins around number ten. After he won Hopkins went to number two, and then claimed the number one spot when Mosley lost to Forrest.