My assesement of his carrer thus far isnt based on bias as it dosent bother me if he were to have knocked out every fighter ever.......or lost to every boxer he ever faced. Thus we can come to the conclusion that if Hatton were to say carry on his carrer for like another 3 or 4 fighhts and took on fighters like Bradley on current form, or witter his old rival or possibily taking on Cotto etc......I would start to view him as a fighter who is actually going for it as he would be facing fighters on a CONSTANT basis that represented the best fighter that he could have with at that point in his carrer. He did this a total of 3 times in his carrer.......one he won against Kosta and the other he badly lost. As ive said before Hatton has done well in fact i think Hatton has accomplished alot but the accomplishements he would have achieve would be far less if boxing was actually bloody organised where we had just 8 weight classes which makes far more sense and one bloody title. In fact i dont think Hatton would have ever won a title if boxing was geared up like that. I dont care if weight classes have been around for 50 years........there are to many..........we need a revamp.........we need to re-market the sport. Mosley, cotto, mayweather, marquez, bradley, khan, margarito, p. williams (althought he can jume several weights big time) hatton, witter, devon, should all be in the same weighht class. Should we do a 210 pound division along with a 230 pound division? Maybe Haye could be like a 3 weight champion and a 4 time champion and then he could face Klit, Valuev, ETC
Thought of a really good one........its well unfair that certain fighters are bigger than other soooooooooo what i came up with could really put boxing back on the map and gives us fans a true idea of who is good and who isnt. With the recent pacman and cotto stuff and Hatton being treated unfairly becuase he fought a couple of times at 147 even though he is a big 140.... starting from 126 featherweight 128 medium featherweight 130 super featherweight 133 little lightweight 135 lightweight 138 super lightweighjt 140 light welter 143 middle welter 147 welter 150 junior liight middlweight 154 light middle 160 middle 164 middle middleweight 168 super middlweight 172 super super middlweight 175 light heavyweight 180 bigger light heavyweight 185 super bigger light heavweight 192 super super big light heavyweight 200 cruiser 210 super cruiser 220 heavyweight 230 bigger heavyweight 240 super heavyweight 250+ gigantic heavyweight Yeah then we can have fighters like hatton get a vacnt IBS, HTU world championship belt at 138 and 142........we could really advertise him as the 29th time champ and legend, all time great champion..........and out does henry armstrong!!!!!!!!! who was only a 3 weight champion but not 567th time champion. Yeah..............im so hoping that Amir follows the footsteps of Hatton and takes on Morales........you know does the perfect matchmaking.......where we can convice everyone that he took a legend ala barrera.......yeah the public will buy that
I disagree with you over the weight divisions, most of the junior ones are warrented. You only have to look how few lightweight champs went on to be welterweight champ or how many former welters did well at middle to see that the jump up in weight was too much for some decent fighters to handle. I'm talking years ago when there was 1 or 2 champs in a divsion, not these days where moving up in weight looks easier than it is because fighters pick and choose who they fight when they move up. A some of your gripes about Hatton seem to be about boxing generally rather than about Hatton specifically and you don't seem to apply reasonable standards when criticising Hatton. Very few fighters constantly take on the most difficullt fights, theres always a few 'soft ones' in any title reign, no champs "clear out a division' anymore etc. Lascano aside, Hattons defences at 140 were a solid if unspectacular bunch, certainly nothing that should need apologising for and (arguably Witter aside) theres no gaping "why didn't he fight xxxxx" questions in there. As I said in another post Hattons career is very easy to sum up and rank with certain limits and anyone saying he's an ATG on one hand or not a decent world champ on the other then you're not assessing his career fairly.
A few of the bollocks lower divisions could be done away with I believe, 3lbs...**** that ****. There is no noticeable difference. Margarito would beat most of those guys up with ease, and that tells you something because the guy is talentless. 140lbs is neccessary for the majority of fighters, it still requires something special for a 140lb'er to beat the top welters.
Very astute I can't help but think that this is your polite way of calling me a **** stirrer (like you have done in the past)
good comeback guys NOT.Ricky Hatton an average world operator who has the benefit of being involved in a sport where its a gigantic mess.Fought two elite prime fighters and lost.Beat one past it elite fighter.Other wins over solid fighter showed how average he was on the world scene.In fact why dont you hatton lovers look at Boxing news last week for there nice assesment of Hatton.Anyhow lets put it to rest..........logic has prevailed.
Do people still actually say that?atsch Listen mate, you've expressed so many duff and ill founded opinions in this thread that you've even managed to get people who don't like Hatton to disagree with you.
Utter1 your name should be changed to UtterClown. Who (who actually cares about the sport) wants to see more weight divisions ?
you fool you own urself........i was taking the **** with the weight divisions u spaz Gazoc stop your spin doctoring
I know this thread, its wacky ideas on how to reform boxing and Hattons part in the downfall of the sport should be allowed to die but I couldn't resist posting this link from today. http://www.eastsideboxing.com/forum/showthread.php?t=162454 It seems Betty isn't the simple minded troll we have him down for, he does actually believe the nonsense he posts. Not content with half the Brit forum thinking he should be sectioned he's setting about proving his insanity on all things Hatton to the The Lounge!!! Best bit (post 4): ****ing priceless!!!