Hattons early career was founded on c and b level fighters...

What impact, if any, do you think this had on his overall development as a fighter...? If he had of been facing 'live dogs' early on do you feel he would have been forced to develop his game away from the bad habits that have prevented him from being considered an "elite fighter"...

 

If he had been facing "live dogs" earlier we'd have never heard of him.

 

well if he had a trainer who was teaching him not to lead w/ his chin since day 1....

 

He would have definitely become as your name puts it, a "club fighter".

 

who faces beasts early in there career. He did fight K.T., Castillo, Mayweather, and Pacquiao.

 

[url]Well he would of got whooped sooner, and he may not have gotten as many opportunities because he might not have developed a fans base that gives him his drawing power to earn a shot at P4P kings.
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Of course it was, the same is true of every fighter :?

 

He might have developed better habits, but the fact is that Hatton is who he is -- a hugely energetic, come-forward fighter with a lot of guts who made it to the summit but couldn't quite stand on the peak.

He gets mad cred for fighting anyone and taking the risks other fighters avoid their whole careers. The fact that his skill set is limited makes his successes all the more impressive.

 

hes only lost to pbf and manny. yes, he was an over-protected euro-hype job for most of his career, but he has beaten some dam good fighters. remember pbf and manny are the two best in the smaller weight classes of their generation... he deserves some props. he is certainly well above club fighter status.

 

My thought exactly. Only Atlas yells at fighters for not taking on a gatekeeper by their third fight.

 

this is all so much bollocks - he fought pretty much the same standard of fighters everyone fights in thier early career, then he went on to world level and beat tszyu who was p4p no.2 or 3, and beat castillo who was p4p top 10. He then went and dominated the light-welterweight division for a couple of years which was always a very live division, ducking nobody in the process and only ever lost to p4p no.1s. club fighter indeed...

 

What? What? What the ****?

Okay, Hatton has beaten a string of top 5, top 10 contenders and several title holders since the Tszyu fight and never lost to any but the consensus P4P #1 on a couple of occasions.

Rather than try to belittle Hatton maybe it would be worth giving a bit of ****ing credit to two incredible boxers who were able to do what no one else could.

If beating Hatton is as easy as some of the scarcely literate imbeciles here reckon, if, as the supposition goes, there is truth in the notion that he would've ended up being a "club fighter" had he taken on decent opposition a shade earlier, he'd have fallen to multiple defeats LONG before reaching Mayweather, let alone Pacquiao.

The truth is that Hatton has beaten everyone he's faced bar two of the greatest EVER. Yet now he earns nothing but derision from some, and as a consequence becomes a completely insignificant win for both Mayweather and Pacquiao.

 

Suure. So by that logic why don't we feed a young flyweight Pacquiao to Tim Austin or Mark too Sharp Johnson?

I find it curious now that Hatton lost that all these supposed flaws of his are now showing up.

 

Oh come on now bud . . . all fighters starts their careers fighting C and B fighters before they get the recogniton.

Don't jump on Hatton's back anymore since he is already down.

 

He was 38-0 when he finally stepped it up. The problem w/ that is, w/ his style of fighting, your not gonna have a long career, so I think alot of time was wasted & I think he MIGHT have had better showings against higher level competition if he was fresher.