Frank Bruno vs. Ricky Hatton

Bruno, all day and everyday.

Hell, I would say he's more well known than Ricky now, nevermind back in the days when he was still boxing on terrestrial TV.

 

Bruno did 7 rounds with Mike Tyson in the late 80's when most people could not do 1 minute...if only he could have backed Tyson up after that uppercut...:yep

At the time Tyson was a machine that cut down everything in his path... he was 15st 10lb too...:scaredas:

I think that Frank Bruno is the most popular by far in the wider circles of boxing...very sad with his health issues. I met him at a dinner a while ago and he was very humble with his great sense of humour.

:happy:happy:happy...Bruno Bruno Bruno...:happy:happy:happy

 

I'd say Bruno.

Though when I got back in from the Hatton-Pac fight at about 8 in the mornin Mum was up and asked me how Hatton had gone on. When I told her she said 'Oh, know! Why wasn't he more careful he knows what he's like' which gave me the impression she knew what a beast Pac is!!!!!!!

Unbelievable as the only thing she watches is 'Location,Location,Location,Location, Location' and the soaps :rofl

 

lzdie:stfu

 

I guess he must have done the last 2 in his changing room after the flight....

(Tyson KO5 Bruno)

 

[quote="TKO";4824402]So because you thought he was better than he actually was, that's somehow his fault?

Bottom line, there were a lot of British world champions/top contenders who took on worse opposition for longer than Hatton did during his WBU days. He at least took on several 10-20 level guys and Tackie who was top 10. Look at Junior Witter. For the five years between the Judah and Ndou fights he beat up on a load of garbage, none of whom would even have made the world top 50. Look at Clinton Woods' opposition up until he fought Jones. Both of them looked a million dollars beating up on nobodies, ony to be in for a much tougher time when they eventually stepped up.

Hatton beat better fighters than these guys did and sought better challenges and yet you never hear anyone calling them "frauds" or accusing them of "fooling the public". Of course that's probably because nobody outside the boxing hardcore gives a toss about them. But, hey, it's not his fault he's popular.[/quote]


Kosta vs Hatton was quite possibly the worst refereeing performance I've ever seen, how Ricky got his karma with Cortez being just as bad in the Mayweather fight. Add that to the fact that Kosta was 35, and retired straight away after ! Shows you exactly how much Kosta wanted to be in the game.

His second best "win" was over Castillo, thats a Castillo who then in the next fight after lost a shutout decision against Seb Lujan. Thats right, he lost 99-91 on 2 cards, which also shows you how much Castillo had left after his wars against Corrales.

I also had Collazo beating Hatton by a point or 2, he didnt have flu or it wasnt weight problems, Collazo was simply better.

Then he disgraced himself and his country by suffering 2 of the most humiliating knockouts I have seen in recent times. It's ok though, as you said Ricky is "popular" (amongst council estates) and he can go back to his cupboard where he was saving that p4p title belt he kept blabbering on about in the build up to Pacquiao.

 

This is a little like shooting fish in a barrel but Zoo was 34 when he fought Hatton, not 35. Castillio won his next fight after Hatton by KO (he's now 3-1 with 3 KOs after Hatton), it wasn't against Lujan and in any case 99-91 isn't a 'shutout' in a 10 round fight....

I guess you're just a little prone to exageration (or lying) where Hatton is concerned which calls into question your having Collazo winning (by a whole point!!!) and just how bad that reffing performance was....

 

Same old hater lies, trying to twist everything to put a negative spin on it. Firstly, there was nothing seriously wrong with the refereeing in either fight, that is simply an excuse that blind haters like to make for the big Tszyu win and blind lovers to make for the Mayweather loss. I am neither and call it like it is. They just had different styles of refereeing. My only problem with Cortez would be that it was in stark contrast to how he refereed the Calzaghe-Hopkins fight a few months later. As for Hatton's popularity being on "council estates", this shows up an irrational hater point of view. The vast majority of my mates are fans of Hatton (the rest are indifferent to the sport) and I can guarantee you none of us are from council estates.

99% of this post is irrelevant to the point I was making in the original comment and the last paragraph is approach Betty levels of ******ation. You do know that getting knocked out is not a voluntary action, right? You don't choose to do it. it just happens if you get hit with the right punch in the right place. So how on earth can you disgrace yourself by getting knocked out? It's not as though he quit or anything. Talking of which, Witter the other week is another prime example. Had that been Hatton the board would have been inundated about how he's a disgrace and he let down his fans who had paid thousands or pounds to go over there and see him, only to give up miserably when he wasn't even hurt. But because it's Witter nobody gives a stuff. Double standards in the extreme, but like I said this country hates a winner.

 

I consider myself corrected...

 

[quote="TKO";4824833]Same old hater lies, trying to twist everything to put a negative spin on it. Firstly, there was nothing seriously wrong with the refereeing in either fight, that is simply an excuse that blind haters like to make for the big Tszyu win and blind lovers to make for the Mayweather loss. [/quote]

Disagree, Cortez was fine, if you watch how they started out it was all headlocks, wrestling, elbows etc from both of them and he clamped down on it like he's supposed to. Parris on the other hand was awful, he may as well have been wearing a man city top. Basically the exact opposite of Cortez-no breaks unless Hatton gave him the nod, no warnings, no point deduction for the terrible and blatant low blow, nothing. If that's nothing seriously wrong then there's no point in having a referee to begin with. Parris is a disgrace.

 

:huhTszyu was 35 no?Also Castillo seems to be 4(4)-1 since Hatton.Poor guy

Cortez wasn't fine in that fight-he was too keen to break them up at times but Hatton had no success on the inside anyway.Mayweather is a far better in fighter than Hatton was banking on

 

Just thought I'd add a comment from a non-Brit:

I was in London earlier this year visiting my daughter who lives and works there. I was having a couple beers with her friends, including 4 or 5 young men in their early 30's. They were talking sports with me; none of them were big boxing fans...this was the week after Hatton got KO'd by Pac Man. They had all seen the fight, and we talked a bit about him, the knew and like him. I then said that the UK had a good boxer named Joe Calzaghe, and they asked, in all seriousness, Who is Joe Calzaghe?
I was kind of shocked, but they knew Hatton well enough, but not Calzaghe.

 

I think the guys were pulling your leg or were total geeks. Calzaghe was sports personality of the year.

 

They were soccer (football) geeks, true enough. Nothing else really mattered to them.

 

I think Bruno is more popular, what a legend. His appearance on Weakest Link the other day had me in stitches!