Did Ricky Hatton ever crack the ring mag`s top 10 P4P fighters?

I think Hatton became more reckless, going into and after the Kostya Tszyu fight. Much of this was disguised, while he was able to get his head into the chest of an opponent and fight at short-range.

A less reckless Hatton was sharper and tighter in his punching. He would still throw committed left hands, but with speed and then recover his defensive positioning very rapidly. He also had a solid set of whiskers and all-round punch resistance. His physical, aggressive style demanded it.

The recklessness was probably caused by a combination of factors. It showed up against Maussa because Maussa was an awkwardly long guy, who Hatton had trouble reaching and so, to some extent, the lunging left-hook, which he nailed Maussa with eventually, was justified - even if it was a risky punch.

It became riskier as he grew tired and his work became ragged. Post-Tszyu he was tiring earlier and, to my mind, was more or less an 8-round fighter by then. I think he was slowing up too and his punch resistance was beginning to falter.

By the time the Lazcano fight came along, I would say Hatton was just about shot. Yes, he had a good outing against Malignaggi, following this, but Malignaggi had little with which to deter Hatton, even with a weakened punch resistance and, to a greater extent, I think, Malignaggi capitulated to Hatton and let him have his way.

To me, the Malignaggi bout was like another 'image rebuild' fight for Hatton (a bit like the Castillo fight had been). Either way, it kept him as the LWW Ring Champion and set up another big payday against Pacquiao. If Hatton wasn't shot before that, then Pacquiao shot him.

 

I think he was from around the Collazo fight (which he arguably was lucky to get the nod in) until the Floyd loss. He definitely wasn't heading into the upset over Tszyu (at it was then considered) but that vaulted him up nearly if not all the way in.

 

Yes he definitely didn't look bad before Ricky beat him.

 

Tszyu was #3 PFP and still dominating Ring top 10 fighters. Tszyu just met his match, plain and simple.

 

Kostya was pretty much done at the stage, kinda the same when Hagler fought Leonard, still highly ranked even though way past his best and loads of inactivity. Plus Dave Parriss allowed filthy, dirty Ricky to do what he wanted. I still don't rate that victory particularly highly.

 

Maybe the better question is; Did Ricky Hatton ever do crack?

 

If Tszyu had beaten Hatton nobody would say he was done, shot or whatever at that point...
Now, because he lost he was shot... no, doesn´t work that way. It was a great win.

I am gonna say Collazo is a very good win too (if you believe he won, which I think he just did). Castillo was okay when Hatton beat him too with a nice knockout.
I´m gonna get **** for this, but Urango is a good win too.

I found his performance against Paulie sensational, the way he hit Paulie with his jab I was at the time really thinking Floyd father and him would work so well....... then Manny came and... oh...
His style could never give him a long career though..

 

Had Tszyu won, I would have said Hatton was overrated, which he was anyway. AND filthy Ricky was the recipient of extremely biased refereeing by incompetent and biased Dave Parriss. Watch the fight please and tell me Parriss DIDNT let Hatton get away with a filthy mugging. I love that sequence in the 6th round when Hatton grabbed Tszyu by the back of the neck and hit him with something like 6 punches while holding him while Parriss stood there with a gleeful look on his face. Tszyu WAS way past it. He was fighting once a year for 4 years while suffering back problems. And he was so close to prime, he retired right after Hatton. And just for the record, Vince Phillips beat prime Kostya far worse than dirty Ricky beat passed it, inactive Kostya

 

Hatton didn't out weigh fighters, he was just a strong and stout at 140's for the weight. He was super fast at cutting off the ring and making fighters uncomfortable. He was deceptively fast with his hands and had pretty good, to good power as well.

 

Hey Clinton, I think I am bias with Hatton because I remember his fights with my heart, those were good days for me and my boxing passion, I remember where I was in all the Hatton fights that I watched, can you believe that ?
I remember discussing with my coach the Collazo fight like if it was yesterday, my coach died since and he thought Collazo had won.

It is odd that many british people here don´t like Hatton too much, I mean Lennox Lewis was helped by refs many tmes too !
I believe being from the outside I don´t get exposed to the personalities of certain fighters, like it happens with certain brazilian figures that I see being praised elsewhere but not that much here... like, for example, Ronaldo or Anderson Silva..

 

I thought Collazo won as well. The knockdown that occurred in the 1st round was while Hatton was holding Collazo behind his head then punching him (as usual). By the end of the fight, Hatton was reeling all over the ring, and Collazo was a light puncher at 147. Thirty more seconds and Hatton would have been stopped. I happen to be a Ronaldo fan. Best natural 9 I have ever seen.