Hatton did ok, wtf is everyone's problem with him?

Its just Americans who hate seeing anyone who is not American getting all the limelight. We all know how most yanks like to be centre of attention.
If he was American they would love him.

 

i'm english, and he looked ordinary at best.

 

I think Hatton is good but not great. I thought he had a pretty bad performance yesterday by his standards against an opponent that he would normally have dominated. He won most of the rounds clearly (11-1 on my card) but he did not dominate many rounds, and got hit flush and hard too often considering the caliber of the opponent. tbh I think that he will look better in his next fight than he did in this one.

I don't care that Hatton is British and have nothing against British fighters. In fact Calzaghe and Haye are among my favorites.

Also i had previously seen 7 Hatton fights, 8 now after yesterday's fight.

Tszyu
Oliveira
Collazo
Urango
Maussa
Castillo
Mayweather

 

We here at ESB are a very critical bunch, someone like Hatton can fool mere boxing mortals like yourself but can't pull the wool over the eyes of the elite boxing analysts at ESB. HAHAAAAAAAAAAAAA take that Hatton

 

Because he was just ok against Juan Lazcano.

That's someone he should be better than "ok" against.

 

It was boxing match. In boxing matches fighters get hit. Ricky got hit a few couple of times, a bit more than usual, and still managed to regain his LWW championship 119-109 vs. a very underrated guy (among those 70% who thought it will be an easy KO). It wasn't his best performance, but he was coming from a KO loss, his first KO loss and first pro loss to be precise, and this fight was there to bounce back - and a tough bounce-back fight.

Some fighters just can't get away without the constant attack of the haters. If Lazcano wasn't brave and strong enough, he would've been called shot, fixed fight, C level old fighter etc.

 

He won pretty much every single round (if not every round), against a ring top ten contender, of a fight on the back of his first ever loss in which hes was brutally TKOed; I think thats a bit better then "did OK".

On top of that the fight was a great entertainment.

 

It's a bit like when Calzaghe fought Hopkins. For the ESB armchair critics, it's a case of "damned if you do, damned if you don't".

If Calzaghe got beaten it would have been "told you so", but he beat him and it was "B-Hop got robbed!", "B-Hop was washed up anyway".

Doesn't matter what the end result is, the haters will still hate.

 

A whole lot to criticize. He did not improve on his flaws and nothing he is getting worse. Hatton won rounds and struggled and was hurt badly twice. Once he was given extra time by his hometown ref. Besides that, you are supposed to look good against your tune ups.. Thats why they are tune ups. To be fair, ODH did not look good against forbes.. So there you have it. Fair and balanced criticism.

 

Actually I think its pretty safe to say that most people claimed BHop was shot before the fight, and that if Calzaghe had won more convincingly noone would say Hopkins was robbed.

What we have here is a case of a few paranoid and over-sensitive brits who think that as soon as someone criticizes a British fighter, then that person thinks all British fighters are bums and that American fighters are better just because they are American. Its really funny actually and its also a load of crap.

 

The fight was meant to be a tair up between two fighters coming forward and exchanging blows non stop. It was supposed to be an exiting, entertaining tune up fight, thats why Lazcano was picked. An exiting fight is what we got, even though Hatton won by an absolute country mile.

Some of Hattons confidence has bound to have returned...mission accomplished. Anyone who thinks Hatton is going to turn into a slick stylistic boxer is very deluded. He is what he is.

Some boxers are destroyed by there first ever defeat, particularly pressure fighters; fair play to Hatton for making a decent comeback and making a decent entertaining fight of it at the same time.

 

Nah, more that some people on here provide valid points, and others are on the verge of trolling.