Colin Jones/Laing...........

Colin had the style to give Ricky a hard brawl.. BUT... Witter and Kirkland would not have had enough to beat Ricky..


Not in a million.........

 

Jones would of lost out in a tough brawl IMO.

Laing would of made Hatton look silly for a few rounds, before blowing the lead in about the tenth; then done the same in the rematch; much like Colin Jones/Laing.......

 

If Buck Smith could KO Laing, Hatton can as well.

 

The problem with Kirkland was though, that was hardly the first time; hell Jones did it twice in the same round.

 

Laing was what, 36 then?

 

It could easily be argued he was in seemingly as good a form as ever walking into Buck Smith's left hook.

 

Is Buck Smith still fighting?:huh

I remember he used to travel to all his fights in a Honda Civic.

 

Just Boxreced him and he had a fight in June.

 

:admin Bloody hell! I heard somewhere he was fighting at heavy nowadays!

 

so what's happened then?hattons just lost to an alltime great.
well for what it's worth,no i don't think he beats laing or jones.the first problem for ricky is that they're both fully fledged welterweights.with laing he has the better chance despite kirklands skills,his constant pressure might just have worn laing down,but remember laing outpointed an admitedly unmotivated roberto duran,and was schooling jones twice before running into big shots from jones.that would be ricky's problem with jones.power.if ricky employed his normal go forward style he would sooner or later walk onto powershots,and against a power punching welter like jones he'd be in trouble.if he stayed away from the big shots then he could outwork jones.hatton has a superior work and punchrate than jones had,but i'd have to take colin.as for witter i think he has a better chance now against hatton than before the mayweather fight.

 

I was messing around on Boxrec a month or so ago and Buck Smith is still active at Cruiser!!!:shock: