Better fighter: McGugian or Hatton

Both in their primes, who was a better fighter?

 

This is more competitive than Qawi-Norton IMO. Leaning Hatton off-hand but might have to re-watch McGuigan to give a formal opinion. It’s been a few years.

 

Gun to my head - Hatton, but its close. Best wins - Hatton beating Tszyu (? possibly) and for McGuigan - probably Pedroza. Laporte was also a great win. I liked Juan Laporte as a fighter. Actually now that I've written this I may have flipped back to McGuigan....

 

Both of their best wins are against great champions past their best in Pedroza and Tszyu. But I think Hatton has more filler to his record so I'll go with Hatton for resume but regarding H2H ability at their best not much in it IMO.

 

Barry was a better all round fighter than Ricky

 

Yes I think he was mate.

 

McGuigan.

 

I agree,Fergy. Barry was better at slipping shots than Ricky.

Have you been watching McGuigan on 'I'm A Celebrity'?

 

I'm not really a fan of the programme. How is he coming across?

 

He's coming over really well. I'm not a big fan of the show either but I'll always watch it if somebody I like is in it - as with Barry this year.

 

I have mate,on and off.
He's a right character, nice to see another side of him.

 

Barry.

 

Barry's career has something of a "what might've been?" element to it IMO, given the way it abruptly fell apart after the Cruz fiasco.

My feeling is that Barry was, at heart, a better fighter than Hatton, but Hatton ended up being a bit more accomplished by competing @the top level a bit longer & winning a title in a 2nd division.

 

McGuigan in every category