My thoughts exactly. And most of those are the fights in which he had a rough night with. He's beaten some slicksters as well like Quintana and Malignaggi... Pacquiao always has trouble with counter punchers, guys who can withstand his punches and fight back, and fighting backwards...he just never does well under given circumstances. Instead of developing those attributes to his technique Roach has simply swept the problem under the rug by telling Pac to stay off the ropes.
People said he was the best 140lber at the time...that may be true but the division sucked serious ass. ****...Cotto beat better fighters at 140 than Hatton did with KT aside. He didn't attack the guy. People attacked him and he retorted towards his critics. People used Hatton's name as if it's a HUGE scalp on your resume...it's decent, but hardly something worth mentioning as an ATG win.
I think that's what Rafael's problem is with this whole thing... All of a sudden Cotto isnt allowed to say anything remotely bad? :roll::huh I guess that's almost equivalent to Manny talking **** before a fight :conf
What the ****? :huh Cotto's win over Mosley was much better than KT...both fought in their respective "home towns" but Hatton was clearly allowed to get away with much more than Cotto (not that Cotto needed to get away with anything in the first place). Cotto was NOT favored to beat Mosley either. The calibur of talent Sugar and KT is close, but I think Shane is a bit better. And why the **** is Urango being listed as some sort of accomplishment alongside with Castillo? Urango is one of the crudest fighter in the sport, who was much cruder at the time Hatton fought him and Castillo was CLEARLY shot to living ****. Cotto's win over Bailey is on the same level as Hatton's win over Paulie...and that really isnt worth mentioning. Seriously...take out KT and what the **** did Hatton accomplish? :huh
Explain this ****? He was beating the **** outta Maussa...they were talking about stopping the fight much sooner than it ended... And Abdulaev? :huh Honestly?!... This content is protected OOOOOO yea...Cotto struggled with this dude :roll::verysad
i rank cotto higher then hatton, i do feel resume wise cotto has done more....but IMO cotto at the moment has one hall of fame win as well just like hatton and that's mosley......hatton stopped a p4p # 3 past it tszyu, while cotto won a close decision over a past it mosley.....i give the cotto a slight edge there but not much.... the problem with hatton is some are starting to underrate him....when he beat tszyu he got overrated, and then after he gets destroyed by two p4p greats he is getting underrated..... I don't think hatton is overrated at all, I think he is a limited fighter, that overachieved.....big difference... and the paulie win IMO are hatton and cotto's most underrated wins......cotto got the best version of paulie that night
Fair assesment. But honestly he isnt overrated anymore because of his losses that were conviently against the p4p greatest (that he managed to score because he can sell tickets). It wouldn't have taken the pound for pound best to beat Hatton...