Hatton wants true Greatness? Margarito has just given him a lifeline...

This is my opinion, this is what we do on forums. Ricky Hatton should never get in the HOF, because firstly his resume is poor and more importantly he has little boxing ability, as displayed by his inability to effectively fight one weight above his "natural weight" against a very average guy.

It just shows what I've always said, unless he can bully/hold/cheat he is nothing special.

 

are you having a fricking laugh?

pryor was a crackhead nutjob by then coming off the back of his second retirement.

 

[jonOli] a fight many people thought he lost [/jonOli]

:yep

 

And it just so happens that fighter he beat TWICE was a fellow ATG and Canastota Hall of Famer Laguna. He has some superb fighters on his resume. Whta really irks me is when someone (cough cough Healy) says something about a fighters placing without knowing nothing about them, by there OWN admission. If you don't know the facts, don't speak out. Buchanan is a top 5 lightweight ATG by the majorities eyes.

 

:yep Not far wrong. Buchanan is probably my favourite British fighter.

 

I agree - this is a Hatton hater's dream fight.

 

As I stated, I wasn't having a dig at Prior but pointing out he only fought, and was successful at one weight. People were stating, originally, that fighting at one weight didn't make a fighter HOF worthy as they were limited as they didn't perform just a few pounds above there natural division. Ken Buchanan is another fighter who only fought at one weight. Bob Foster is another.

Perhaps Spinks, infact.... most the heavies in there as well; Ali, Foreman, Frazer....etc have all got to come out the hall.

 

Except the judges who gave him a UD, rather then a contentious SD.

I'd say nearly every fighter has had a fight some thought they lost. I'm pretty sure Hatton is no different.

 

Calzaghe - Hopkins, Reid
Hatton - Collazo
Witter - Lynes, Kotelnik
Arthur - Foster
Froch - ???
Haye - None currently
Khan - Limond (Long count :deal)

Further afield.....

Mayweather - Castillo I
DLH - Sturm
Trinidad - DLH
Mosley - DLH
Cotto - Mosley

 

there's a world of difference between moving up and taking a tough decision over a P4P rated fighter and man of the division and scraping a tough decision over a borderline top 10 fighter.

 

i never said i agreed with the standard set by TFFP but pryor is a bad example and spinks? i hardly consider it a failure going up from LHW to HW and taking a couple of wins over larry holmes and a win over gerry cooney.

 

Thats why I put perhaps next to his name. His an all time great, and is most famous for getting ktfo of in a division outside his main one. Spinks perhaps I shouldn't have mentioned. There are others in there, some brawlers as well.

 

How in the hell could you count Arthur Foster? That fight wasnt even close except from the Knockdown.

 

Hatton has been a lightwelter since he was 16!

British kids tend to fill out much earlier than others.

 

No, what you're doing on forums is desperately defending a biased and flawed argument using series of ridiculous, and quite often childish, comments like the one above because of a personal dislike for a boxer.