Hatton let boxing down last night

you're obviously a little bit of a knob jockey..

 

You speak too much sense, it's wasted on too many...

 

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Cheers.

I will try to chill.

 

Very well said

 

Hatton let boxing down during the WBU years. He didn't do it by getting in the ring, but getting whipped by a prime version of one of the greatest ever boxers to lace them up in the history of the game.

 

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He's this generations Dave 'Boy' Green to Sugar Ray Leonard. Huge credit for having a go unlike safety first fighters even if he fought like an idiot last night against someone who is out of his league, and it's now clear that he always would have been.

 

Im with you Doug, the amount of people spouting **** on here makes me shake my head, the lack of compassion for a guy that has always put everything he had on the line astounds me ..
He has provided great entertainment in the boxing world over the years and he came up short against 2 stellar fighters. He always sought to fight the best to prove himself and he came up short ..
But Ricky Hatton is a courageous warrior, he knew boxing, he knew that he didnt have the skills to match Mayweather and Pac but he thought his heart and bravery would see him through ..
He was outclassed by the outstanding Mayweather and looked woefully under prepared against Manny amid the backdrop of a disastrous training camp led by the disastrous Floyd Mayweather .. The lack of respect for a true warrior like Hatton on this forum is a total joke and all you tough guys hiding behind your computers ripping him to pieces need to have some respect for him .. Who exactly are you guys anyway ?? What the hell have you acheived ?? Or does it make you feel better about yourselves to ridicule a man who risked it all in front of millions of people, yeah he came up short on occasion but he put more heart and courage on show than any of you guys will ever have too .. Some of you guys know nothing about boxing with your smug attitude ..... How can someone start a thread with 'Hatton let down Boxing' and saying 'Hes an embarrassment' .... Thats a disgrace ..

 

I like you Axl, you speak the truth!

I'll never hate any boxer. Im always going to want a particular fighter to win, but I find jumping on bandwagons post-fight crude and ultimately embarrassing.

 

Roach didn't think it either.

 

If this was Facebook, I would "I Like" to this statement.

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Firstly, I know I said I wouldnt post again after I lost my bet, but **** it. Im allowed one last hurrah, surely. have some sympathy for me, cos I ****ed up & banned myself oneweek before such massive fight, & of course Im still reading my favourite forum, & to be honest its killing me not being able to put my views accross on this fight! So **** it, one last post on a subject thats I have been very vocal about here for years, Ricky Hatton.
As I said already, I been a vocal Hatton hater here for years, so its only right that I give my opinion if you dont mind.
& my opinion?

Now that it all seems done & dusted on Hattons career, I have to give him my grudging respect.
Why? Cos Hattons career deserves it. Now everyone knew that I nuthugged Scotty Harrison, but man if Scotty had achieved what Hatton had, I would have been a very proud man & would have been crowing on about it to this day, & you know it fellow ESB'ers

Its time to call a spade a spade as it were. & for all I mumped & moaned here about Hatton through the years, about his arrogance, about the hype, about him dodging Junior Witter & other fighters etc... At the end of the day when it mattered, Ricky Hatton stood up to be counted. I was always smug here, mocking Hatton for calling out Floyd jnr never believing Hatton would fight him, but he did! & even after he was beaten, he still had the balls to go for it again against Pacquiao, & lets be brutally honest here, he gave every boxing fan what they wanted in the end, he gave his fans the chance to see him up against the true elite of the sport, & he gave the haters the chance to knock him if he was beaten.

The same cannot be said for Calzaghe etc, who never fought two legends in their prime like Hatton did, & I have to respect Ricky for that. He stood up to be counted, & to be honest I am a bit saddened to see the amount of abuse Hatton is taking in here, & on the general forum especially. I said here weeks ago that Floyd snr was the worst thing that could happen to Hatton, & I was proven right. Im not gloating though, cos Floyd snr annoyed me, as usual he was all out for himself, neglected his fighter & left Hatton high & dry, & everyone seen what happened.
Mayweather snr had a huge part to play in Hattons defeat, I warned here that he would take Hatton backwards, & it showed in Hattons display.

Sorry my post is so big, but cos I promised to leave I cant hang about making many posts like I wish I could on the subject, so bear with me:deal

Personally, I dont think Hatton should retire. It would be an awful way to bow out, & lets be honest here, who is going to hit him like Pac? No-one.Pac is a freak of nature. Hatton has got a few wins left in him, & although he was KO'd in spectacular fashion, he hadnt taken a long sustained beating. So I think Ricky should get shot of that knob Flyd snr, get back to his old ways, pick up another world title & see where it goes from there.
I dont agree with everyone that hes done, hes only guilty of losing to the very very best, theres no shame in it.
To be honest, it saddens me to see people rejoicing in Hattons defeat quite so much, cos as I said earlier at least Hatton stepped up & fought the very best, he put it all on the line for his fans, & gave the haters the opportunity to slaughter him if it all went wrong. Lets be honest here, it was ****in brave of Hatton.
He deserves more respect than is being shown on ESB, & the haters should, like me, think about it a bit as they rejoice in Hattons downfall.

Hatton deserves some credit, even from his haters. Cos even they know that Hatton achieved more than they could have imagined. & why do I say this? Cos I was a hater myself!
No man deserves to be called a disgrace, a fraud etc though cos that beast of a man Manny Pacquiao sparked them though. Even n my Harrison nuthugging days a few years ago here I always admitted that Harrison would never have beaten Pac.
The guy is just in a different league. & everyone slaughtering Hatton should always remember this.

Anyway, Im sorry for coming back on & breaking a promise, but this subject was too close to my heart for me to ignore, & I feel bad about posting but after all the years of Hatton hating I did here I feel I owed it to everyone to come in & give Ricky his respect. He dont deserve to be publicly flogged on ESB cos he lost to the two best fighters in a generation.

 

damn nice. u should be obama's speech maker.:good PEACE:happy

 

no way did he let boxing down

infact he done great for boxing saturday night

sometimes in this sport a devastating ko like that is needed especially in such a high profile fight such as hatton pac, a fight that captured the publics imagination

that ko reminds us of how brutal this sport is and brought back memories of the days of dempsey , tyson and duran

we needed ricky to catapult pac further up in his superstar status, boxing is back with a bang thanks to ricky getting sparked boxing made the headlines again for being the sweet science that it is

 

Nice post Dunky. Maybe a few on this site should take note.