Better legacy Ricky Hatton or Nigel Benn

That is the point I am making, Benn redeemed his reputation not though carrying on fighting, but by time feeling that wound, the same could apply to Hatton.

You see, there were plenty of prize ****s after Benn quit the Collins fights, they are the same (sort) of people who have turned on Hatton....

 

LOL:good

 

Yes McClellan was experiencing Headaches before the Benn fight but remember it was all nearly over in the first after McClellan knocked Benn clean out of the ring. The guy was an animal and perfectly matched with Benn at the time imo, Such a brutal fight and one of the greatest of all time in a British ring.

 

Benn all day for me,he mixed it with tougher fighters when they were at their peak,the McClellan fight was brutal.
Dont think his heart was in it against Collins etc,too many wars had caught up with him by then.
I remember the Barkley fight,Barkley did`nt know what hit him and reffered to Benn as a scrap yard dog,high praise indeed. lol.

 

Tszyu was old and inactive due to injury for 2 years just prior to HattonMcllelen was a monster in his prime who had just battered Julian Jackson you tell me?

 

i think it would of been a very interesting fight between a prime Tszyu and hatton and i might have to lean towards Tszu

 

No need for your ****ish and subjective retort.

 

Castillo was a great lightweight who moved up and lost. Castillo has some clout at 140. G Man was a good middleweight who moved up and lost. G Man never attained at 160 what Castillo did at 135.

 

Hatton went against the odds v Tszyu. Benn quit v Collins and got ko'd by a jab v Watson.

This comparison can be argued but ultimately, I don't think Benns record stacks up with Hattons.

 

Castillo was shot though.McClellan is the better win,do you disagree?

 

Even if Benn was on form he could still lose those last 3 fights.

 

I don't think Castillo was shot, he was outclassed. On paper Castillo is proven and a great fighter. With G Man, we are basing his career off of what we THINK he was and could have been. Hatton beat a great lightweight, Benn didn't beat a great middleweight.

 

Didn't Tszyu struggle to make the weight for Hatton - or is my memory shot ?

 

Castillo was proven at 135,he'd acheived nothing at 140(I know same goes for McClellan) and was comning off a lacklustre performance at that weight on the Urango undercard.TBH,I've never heard anybody defend the fact that Castillo was way past prime and fighting to pay Chicos family no??

 

He missed the weight once, hit the weight on his next go and reweighed in the next morning and had put on less than 10 pounds. People tried to make a big deal of it. That is how I remember it.

There are also reports of G Man struggling with maintaining his weight and even overshot the mark, thus making the fight more dangerous. I've read it in a few places. I think the book WAR BABY and from Steve Bunce (he wrote an article about how so many boxing injuries are weight drained based).