Good Hatton interview

I agree.


Do these guys think that Hatton is some sort of Comedy genius who can write new jokes for all of the hundreds of boxing interviews he does.

Hattons jokes, often repeated are his public ID (punch line). Frank Brunos was his repeated silly laugh......Eubanks was his repeated arrogant put downs...

 

nah, I don't go out of my way at all, and nor so I post in every Hatton thread. The guy posted videos for people to watch and I did, then commented. There many are anti-Hatton threads around the forum, ask yourself why, and how a guy you say is so cool around his people (and I'm not saying he isn't) is so disliked by so many boxing fans. And no, of course I don't think i'm something special. What a bizarre rant.
You see, we're judging him on different criteria so it's no surprise out point of views are totally different.
Not seen you in a while, do you only post around the time of Hatton's fights?

 

I'm afraid you are gulty as charged, you are relentlessly negative, suggesting Lazcano and Castillo didn't / won't even try (all utterly groundless), you post in nearly every Hatton thread - always negative - you accuse the Hatton camp of lying without any evidence to back this up.

It is massively weird behaviour on your part and you do seem to think that you are somehow more intelligent than anyone who supports Hatton.

Also don't say 'so many boxing fans dislike Hatton' please. This is not true. It's a few obsessives on the inernet. He's the most popular fighter in the UK, so you can ***** and moan all you like - your statement about him being widely disliked is, by definition, wrong.

 

Channel M (for Manchester) interviewer in 'not representing the petty gripes of an internet nutjob' shocker

 

I think you're wrong. Well if the posters on here are a reasonable sample of the world boxing fans (and a forum specific to boxing I feel it is), all you need to do it read through the forum to see that a decent percentage are negative towards the guy. I'm not talking about people who have no interest in boxing, or the wider UK audience. I referred to fans of the sport.

Ray Hatton has lied. He said that Hatton-Witter situation was nothing like Hatton-Mayweather as Hatton only started slagging off Mayweather after the fight was signed. Utter bollocks. That was clear case of lying, but most of the time it's spin spin spin mixed in with bull****.

as for Castillo, look at the way he's gone recently...do you really think he's had much left? As for Lazcano, there are stories about him slacking off in training, but who knows if that's bollocks or not. What we do know is that he was never anything special, has not fought in ages and looked especially friendly at the weigh-in.
It's not just me saying all these things, stop kidding yourself it's just 1 lunatic doing so any everyone else loved Wicky.

 

again, don't kid youself it's only me.
Read around, there were even many disgruntled letters about Hatton printed in boxing news. They're not going to let unfounded nonsense get to print. Deal with it.

 

Fair enough

And of course, I realise it's not just you

I just think those (you included) who don't like Hatton make WAYYYY too much of it. The Witter 'ducking' became received wisdom, next up it will be Hatton's 'unpopularity'. You guys say this stuff so much you convince yourselves your viewpoint is gospel. It isn't.

Many of the reasons you give, well, I can see your point. I accept these things (spin etc) as part of the game, personally. I just don't see where it differs from what everyone else does. So why would I single out the Hattons?

 

I just think they're a lot worse that anyone else I can think of, and annoyingly manipulative.
we don't agree, lets move on.
I won't be watching the fight tonight, even though it's free here. Are you going?

 

I don't believe you, you'll watch it if it's free. I even think you'd pay for it if you had to - you're f*cking obsessed with Hatton, you seem to spend all your time reading his interviews and watching his documentaries.

 

No

I live down south, I could've timed a trip home to Manchester to see it, but if I'm honest it wouldn't justify the expense and the bank holiday traffic, I can live without

I'm not really a live event goer anyway, used to go the football a lot in my youth but nowt else on a regular basis

Surprised you won't be watching, but I won't sugarcoat it - I'm a Hatton fan and can't wait to see him

 

No, I am here come most big fights but I'm generally a lurker, it is only when Ricky fights that people come out of the woodwork with nasty, crazed rants, so I feel I should stick up for him. Not that he needs me to, not that he would give a **** what you lot have to say but just because I think it is right to speak up when I hear a load of blatent lies.

I won't address the rest of your post, Trotter has said it better than I could.

 

He may be disliked by a small proportion of boxing fans (some of which are newbs who think it makes them "hardcore" to jump on the bandwagon, esp. re Witter) and everyone is entitled to their opinion but its about levels and there are 4 or 5 people on here who have gone past disliking a person they have never met and decended in pure, obsessve, irrational hatred.

I read some of the compaints about Hatton and I'm unsure whether the likes of you, Scurla, Joe are genuinely pissed off or just havng a laugh.....they are THAT ludicrous its funny. Its like they are trawling the media each day looking for the slightest possible error made by the Hattons to blow out of all proportion and use it to show what a disgrace to boxing they are.

 

if you have the time I would like to hear what you consider to be these 'blatant lies'.
cheers.