Hatton - Mayweather 2?

It's not semantics when you say one thing in one post and then change your mind in the next one....but if you want to knock it on the head for tonight that fair enough.

 

Don't pretend like you haven't heard my views on Hatton's resume prior to that post. Do you really want to get into a situation where we are picking each other posts to pieces because it could get very tedious? A bit like the whole Hatton debate.

 

Unless I've got things wrong you said history would be unkind to Hatton if he didn't fight Witter. I disagreed. I really don't see how this has got at all complicated?

 

I agree BB, this really would be a 'nothing' fight for Mayweather.

 

I did in that instance but I don't think history will be kind to him anyway for the numerous reasons I have given in numerous other threads that you have been part of. Do you need to hear them again?

 

Dan,BB. I think we all agree which fights need to happen. Its just when, and in what order, we are disagreeing about?:good

 

No I don't, I was only addressing the point you made about Witter.:good

 

I wasn't suggesting we ignore the news I was merely trying to avert the inevitable debate involving the same tired arguments that Gaz himself said life was too short for.

I'm not so sure. I definitely don't want to see Hatton Mayweather 2.

Okay. Seeing as you have pressed me on this point, perhaps for want of a better argument, heres my answer.

At the moment Hatton has a good resume at 140. At 147 he held a belt which in years to come wont be significant, he also got a severe beatdown at this weight from Floyd. When at 140 he turned down a fight with Floyd which would have unified the division. He instead struggled in a fight against an average opponent in a division he now claims isn't for him. As it stands, without factoring in Witter, I don't think history will be treating him too kindly.

If he beats Lazcano & Malignaggi & gets knocked out again by PBF I think history would treat him slightly better than above but not by much given that Malignaggi is nothing special.

Factor in the avoidance of Witter in either of those scenarios it worsens the situation given Witter was considered the number one challenger.

Happy?

 

Absolutely-****ing-delerious!!

Except the part about not fighting Witter mattering much. You see that as a big strike against, I just don't think its going to be more than a footnote whent they are writing the history books 20 years from now. Good post though and I mean that!

 

Mayweather needs to fight Cotto.

Hatton doesn't need to fight Witter, he's a nobody.

 

I've done a fair amount of criticising of Hatton in my time but to call him a nobody is taking it a touch far in my opinion.