HATTON BASHING american arrogance

Check out the British forum....there are plenty of people bashing Hatton and Calzaghe there. Why bring nationality into it?

Boxing is a sport where hater and nuthugger fans thrive, thats how it always been and that how it always will be.

 

Hehe. Thankyou for your welcome.

I apologise if my post came across as me being furious, that wasn't the intention I just think it is completely unfair to label these great British Hatton followers as hooligans. I understand that American has never seen any real kind of sports hooliganism before, so I will give the poster the benefit of the doubt but hooliganism is really not happy and friendly but load and rawcus support! Hooliganism is vicious and terrifying mass violence, all out fighting between 2 groups of support, large scale street fighting where people absolutely get the shite kicked out of them, stabbed or slashed, bricked, etc etc, occasionally killed. To compare Hattons support with those low life scum is unfair and disrespectful...

But talking about disrespect, I did not mean to be disrespectful to the poster I quoted, I apologise that my post came across with such vitriol. I was annoyed by the post but I should understand the posters ignorance.

Hattons support, great as it was, was typical. It is the British culture and it was undertaken in a polite, respectful way. Atmosphere is all in sport and when you see a football game in Britain, Italy, Argentina, etc etc you can see just how important that support is and just how beautiful and almost physical the atmosphere feels.

Thanks again for the (possibly somewhat sarcastic or facetious) welcome:good

P.s. I should maybe leave this for another thread but seeing as I am posting I will add it here. I am from Hyde, the same town as Rick (infact he lives just down my road). Hyde is quite a poor town with a lot of crime (Most Americans think Britain is a happy, bouncy, Mary Poppins esque fairy tale country, with no crime only polite, sexuelly repressed people squeeking out upper class accents but that could not be further from the truth. Britain has the highest crime rates in the developed world - which the American media and news programs took great pride in detailing when the crime stats were released -, much higher than America in everything from violent crime to burglary. American does have worse murder and **** rates though) and drugs but Ricky remains here, in the town he has grown up in, with his friends and family. He really is as down to earth as a person could possibly get. I know him reasonably well and I can tell you with complete honesty he is a really lovely guy! A friendlier person you would struggle to find. He hasn't changed one bit since he first started boxing. If you could know about James, the little lad he has looked after since he met him, throughout his illness (which was terminal), after his mother died... I dunno, he is just a very very special person and we should all (Britain, America and elsewhere) feel very proud and glad we have him!

 

So not liking hattons style makes us ignorant now? please this thread is the ignorance

 

Cool as your climate!

 

To be fair mate, he said it was arrogance, not ignorance.

 

Hatton taking on Mosley at 147??????

Lets be honest, I just don't see Hatton moving up to take on someone like Mosley at 147 (it wont happen), but it's true, Mosley is a small 147.

 

No Witter is not shot and past his prime - but you can rest assured that's exactly what Hattons waiting for :deal

Hatton would murder Witter, Hatton would knock him out in the mid-rounds, etc etc etc. Same **** you get from the Calslappy fans - coulda, woulda, shoulda.

 

He's also exactly the right age too :yep

 

Well your judging us by our waitresses is more clueless than calling those chanters hooligans. If you cant take it dont start it.

Maybe your OP shoulda took his scottish accent and nostalgia down to the pier or better yet to Miami's Liberty city in order to get a more unbiased opinion of our country.

 

Yeah but he only interviewed left wing liberals and the Floyd and Oscar type groupies

 

Thats right, the average fan loves Hatton but the boxing fanatic often sees things more constructively.

But any American boxer no matter how good will get booed to death in Manchester.

 

90% of the Hatton bashing are by ignorant Mayweather fans....they don't represent all American fans.

 

a bit old and past his prime, rite?

 

Don't generalize me. I came in here after cheering for a Mexican fighter and said Congratulations to Hatton and his fans for a great victory.