Ricky Hatton's place among the British greats?

He's an overachiever, i think you could find at least 30 to 40 British fighters that rate above him on actual fighting ability.His win over Kostya was a fine achievement even with the hometown advantage reffing, considering the talent he had.


A poor man's Gianfranco Rosi.Potentially awkward to look good against, with a few good attributes, but a weak vulnerable world champion overall.Even accounting for Pac's abiity, i'd say his performance in that fight is one of the worst ever by a world class Brit fighter in a big fight.

I'd be more leniant on him if he had been an honest pressure fighter that threw quality punches and fought clean aka Paul Hodkinson, who was no great talent either.But he wasn't, he was just a horrible fighter to watch.

 

Top 30 then?

 

Lennox was born in London so hes British. Hatton isnt anywhere talentwise but you cant deny he has some very good wins on his record, it depends what you like. I'd probably have him 20-30.

 

That's totally different. Being born in one part of the country but becoming a fighter in another part of it is completely different from having a fighter who is born in one country, to parents from a different country and learns his trade in ANOTHER country.

Just seemed a way to show off a tidbit of trivia if you ask me.

 

Top 15-25.

 

I happen to think that history will be kind to the Hitman.

I say this as one who identified the detail of his technical shortcomings when he was riding high.

He reigned over the light welterweight division as lineal champion for four years, and lets face it he was not fighting bums and pretenders. He was fighting beltholders and contenders.

As for his losses, history could be verry forgiving to a man who only lost to the two best pound for pound fighters of his era. Verry forgiving indeed.

 

I dunno.I can see why you say that and agree to an extent, but he's more likely to really benefit from things like that if is there hardly any footage of him.

I can't see him aging well for the neutral fan watching his fights in years down the line.Look at the backlash against fighters like Kingpetch and Galaxy, fighters either infinitely classier or more destructive than Ricky.

 

Good points from Janitor and Mantequilla. Even if Urango goes on to be dominant (highly unlikely IMO) viewing the Hatton fight would leave one underwhelmed to say the least.

 

Never enjoyed watching any of his fights? :think