cotto wants a shot at hatton

And Hatton was blown up for the Collazo fight.... But ppl still use it to beat Hatton with.

 

Precisely the point I was trying to make....for whatever reason there is very little balance on here when Ricky Hatton is mentioned. To listen to some of the experts a Carl Allen - Ricky Hatton matchup would be a 50/50 fight.

 

This could be the greatest fight of all time.......

Of all time...ha ha

 

So it's ok for Cotto to look bad at 140 and get severly rocked by guys who didn't trouble or would't trouble Hatton one bit... But when he goes to his natural 147 thats ok

But because Hatton looked a bit dodgy at 147.... and went back down to his natural weight it makes him a less skilled fighter :huh

 

I didn't say anything was okay or otherwise.

I'm saying Cotto is a welterweight, that is his best weight, just as 140 is Hatton's. And since we're talking about a fight at welterweight it would be wise to use the relevent evidence.

 

exactly. and, self admittedly by these same people, hatton is suppose to lose his natural "advantages", or whatever the hell that is, at 147.

hatton has nowhere near the size/strength of margarito, that would enable him to overpower cotto as margarito did. if ricky tried that, he'd play straight into cotto's strengths and get pounded into powder. not to mention, it's EXTREMELY unlikey that hatton walks through the ammount of punches margarito weathered. the only similarity between margarito and hatton is that both seem to have a unhealthy appetite for eating punches.

hatton seems to be a nice guy, who does a lot of good for his community, but i'm just being realistic.

 

Who is even saying Hatton would win? Let alone making any 'delusional' claims?

Your analysis is, in sum total: ' Hatton will get leathered badly by Cotto'

Great.

These are clearly two guys who fight at different weights and whoever gives ground on their optimal weight is going to be badly disadvantaged.

 

That doesn't even make sense.

Everybody is saying Hatton has nowhere the size or strength of Margarito aren't they? Thats the whole point you dope.

That's why he fights a weight class down.

 

Hatton will easily smash Pacquiao but Cotto will destroy Hatton.

 

Hatton needs to stay well away from Cotto. Very bad match-up for him. Cotto would destroy him!

 

I think Cotto would win but to suggest that they shouldn't be in the same ring and that it is a non event with Hatton having zero chance is unfair, imo.

FFS even Pauli gave Cotto a decent test.

Cotto has been wobbled on several occasions in the past as well...

Cotto is good no doubt (and deserves high praise), but I think he gets overated by many.

 

I don't think he gets enough praise. He outboxed Mosley for a hard fought decision, and Mosley is supposed to be the best welterweight around now. We also know how devastating he is when he's in pressure mode. That's a multi-dimensional fighter, of which there aren't many.

 

Floyd Mayweather beat Ricky Hatton.

But Miguel Cotto would beat Ricky Hatton down.

Into retirement.

 

That may well be, but why is he now seen as that?

Because he beat the guy who beat Cotto. A guy ranked a distance from the top ten p4p at the time and got mullered in his next fight by Shane. The guy? Margo: a guy Williams beat.

Shane was pretty much universally seen as nearly done prior to beating "the guy who beat Cotto".

 

I don't get this Shane Mosley love in. It isn't long ago that he was 30 seconds away from retirement against Mayorga.