Hatton beating Tszyu

Brook beating Manny would be beyond shocking.

 

Hatton's win was a big achievement, he stepped up to the plate on the night and put on a great performance against a guy in the p4p top 10 list.

You can only really measure how shocking it would be for Brook to beat Manny by comparing the Tszyu that Hatton fought to Manny now.

Tszyu had only fought twice in 3 years before the Hatton fight and was past his best, you could argue Manny is also past his best but he has been far more active. The fact that a tough guy like Tsyzu failed to come out for the last round against Hatton at his age and a long period of inactivity suggests he may have been on the slide and Hatton got him at the right time. Don't think the Manny of today would ever quit on his stool against anyone.

Tszyu was also the MAN at LWW pretty much since he won the title apart from the Phillips slip up. You could argue that Manny isn't a natural welter and has moved up to that weight so perhaps isn't quite as comparable. Brook would have a good size advantage over him that Hatton wouldn't have had the benefit of against Tszyu.

Taking their records into account I think you'd have to give the edge to Manny in terms of resume, even though he has more losses he has fought and beat the better opponents and is above Tsyzu in the ATG list and is in better current shape than the Tsyzu that fought Hatton was.

So overall if Brook beat Manny now I think it would be a better achievement. Hatton's win was still impressive though simply because of the way he beat Tsyzu, just absolutely threw the kitchen sink at him and battered him into submission.

 

I agree, Tszyu was past his best but far from "shot" like some revisors like to suggest, and still the champion, a great win for Hatton.

A win over Manny by Brook would be amazing though, considering how much better than Brook Hatton was, and how Manny is on better form than Tszyu of the time.

 

He wasn't shot by any means, the fight was competitive enough to prove that. I just think he knew that Hatton wasn't going to get KO'd in the last round and that he had lost the fight, was probably exhausted and didn't want any more punishment. Great win for Hatton but also got Tsyzu at the right time, that was a pretty savage fight too, both of them pretty rough house, punching each other in the bollocks and everything!

 

Tsyzu just couldn't handle the pace, especially since he was hitting Hatton with pure bombs and Hatton walked through them and roughed Tszyu up, relentless pressure from Hatton and a very rough fight

 

maybe tzyu would´ve won if hatton wasn´t allowed all those clinching. ricky was more a wrestler/grappler than a boxer... with that being said he would be well suited for mma, he also has some kickboxing background.

 

Tszyu was on the slide, but still plenty good enough. Just before this fight didn't he slam Sharmba Mitchell. It was a good win for Hatton, but Tszyu whilst a great fighter, he's wasn't a Mayweather or Pacman.
Prime Tszyu in a neutral venue would have beaten Hatton no problems.

 

Dave Parris definitely helped Hatton, had that been Joe Cortez the outcome could have been very different!

 

brook beating manny is a bit far out there for me. Carson jones was a messy spoiling swarmer and he gave brook A LOT of problems. Manny would be too slick for him. But i do agree with the previous posts about manny being in a similar position to Tzysu. Tzysu was on the decline and so is manny. Manny is ripe for the picking by the right people.

Hatton beating Tzysu was massive. Not the biggest achievement in the history of boxing. But a real good achievement for a good guy.

 

The fact Frank even put Hatton in with Tszyu shows he was considered on the slide, not taking anything away from Ricky, it was still a great win.

That night Hatton hit his peak, it went slowly downhill after, he was never quite the same fighter.

 

biggest ones in the last few decades,benn/McClellan,honeygun/curry biggest i can think of at the mo.

kosta was not shot,past his best maybe,hatton out worked him,**** all to do with clinching whichever cockhead said that,hattons movement was superb,the boy above(slick boxer:roll who said clinching is obviously into MMA,he won a rough tough hard fought fight,people need to get over it,great win for a british boxer

 

froch is and always has been vastly underrated outside of the UK and it was no surprise to those who follow the sport to see him walk through bute who had been molly coddled in his own country the same way arthur abraham was when carl smashed him

oh and a good starting point for you will be.....

honeyghan-curry
:good

 

Calzaghe/Lacy wasn't a big shock to most of the UK boxing fans but Lacy was the bookies favourite in their fight and we all know what happened.

Burns/Martinez was an upset although not quite the same achievement as the others mentioned.

Other than that can't think of too many off the top of my head.

The best over coming of the odds I have seen though was when Danny Williams popped his shoulder out mid round then somehow managed to KO the other guy with a left while his arm looked completely mangled!