Hatton, accomplished a lot, impressed nobody

Hatton has fought his way to the top class of boxing by maintaining an undefeated record and establishing some wins over some big names. As a resume, Hatton looks very impressive. But look at the individual fights and the wins seem either dubious or meaningless.

O.K. the vast majority of Pre-Tszyu fights were against bums and has-beens. None of these wins mean anything.

But we can observe that he was knocked down aganst McGee and he didnt really look as impressive against some of his B- grade opposition as an elite fighter would. Take Ben Tackie, for example. Look at he way Tszyu put Tackie away and compare that with the Hatton fight. There is a massive difference in class here.

The Tszyu fght was a great effort but less a great effort in boxing than strategy, hit and hold fighting, doing anything to takes in your hometown with a biased referee, (deliberately punching in the testicles and getting a soft warning) etc. Tszyu it must be said didnt look his usual self but when he could get his arms free he was landing sweet counters. In the middle rounds of the fight, the 'meat' of the fight, Tszyu won and gave glimpses of his natural superiority over Hatton. But he'd fought 6 rounds in 3 years or something, and was 35, so he clearly wasnt prepared to take 12 rounds of Hattons pressure. He got gassed and fell in a hole and was TKO'd. All in all a great, career boosting win for Hatton but because of the way he did it objective observers didn’t really credit him as much as they might have for such a big win.

Since then, Maussa – wow. He never should have been a titilist in the first place. He won his belt with a fluke KO. Hatton looks ordinary putting away this fraud.

Collazo – don’t need to say much about this fight. Probably should have been scored a draw. Hatton got tagged all night and knocked down in the 12th and nearly knocked out on his feat. Collazo spent too much time infighting but when he boxed he made Hatton look B grade. But anyway, the ‘new welterweight champion is…Ricky the HitMan Hatton”.

Looked average against an old, shot, underprepared, dispirited Castilo and then landed a savage body blow. Props for the body punch, probably the most impressive hit in Hattons career.

Hattons is truly a smoke and mirrors career – his big wins are shrouded in question marks and his other wins are meaningless.

 

I highly doubt Floyd will get a lot of credit when he beats Hatton. People will say he needs to fight Cotto to prove himself at welter.

 

Um, yeah. 'annihilate' is what Tyson did to Spinks or what Floyd did to Gatti, not what Hatton did to Maussa (KO in 9). :rofl:rofl Youre obviously and idiot.

 

Did I say he should get credit for beating Hatton? No. stfu

 

Dude you cant even spell the word, I dont think youre in a position to wage a semantic argument. But taking 9 rounds to dispose of someone like Maussa, especially for a come forward type fighter like Hatton is not impressive.

 

"All my posts indicate". So basically I never said it and youre searching my posts now to find a way to justify your stupid inference. Let me state right now that Floyd deserves no credit for beating Hatton in and by itself. If he does in impressively, maybe.