'It won't be easy for Ricky Hatton, that's for sure, but the clash with Manny Pacquiao presents his best chance ever to become world pound-for-pound champ.' - BOXING MONTHLY, April 2009
They are all shamefully getting onto the pound for pound title rubbish. Even Sky and Ring magazine talk about it like this too.
being the best 140lb alone does not make you the p4p best. who has ricky beat that the best 140lb should not be able to beat? both pac and jmm have beaten guys that the best 130lb fighter can beat beat not necessarily should beat. different level of accomplishments.
Exactly. Pound4Pound for me means your skills are so insane and immense that you can carry them over to other weight classes and still be a bad mofo. Hatton has proven that his skill level isn't high enough to rule at other weight classes (he does not have that weightless skills as opposed to timeless art). He is as good at 140 only.
This 'P4P Champ' tag is getting annoying! It'd be a great win for Hatton but not worthy of catapulting him to that perceived P4P #1 position. Hatton should be the favourite really given his size and strength advantage.
yep a draw and a gifted win thers not much to seperate them, you can easily say how can you have pac over hatton if hatton does beat him? jus because pac has a win over jmm it doesnt mean jmm cant be above pac in the p4p rankings especially becuase the fights were so close and many ppl had jmm winning. so if hatton beats pac i have jmm as number 1 hatton would have to beat him to be the official p4p king