Not that I should feel the need to defend either boxer but they've both achieved more than Bradley. Bradley has 2 decent wins, an old Witter on an off day and a glorified gatekeeper in Cherry. People need to slow down a little.
i do like bradley. i enjoyed him beating witter to be honest cos of junior's mouth and he was very humble when he won, seemed a lovely bloke, and a good ,determined fighter. the fact is though it WAS a miserable performance by witter, he was woeful and still made it pretty close. i hope bradley does well, but i do think anyone saying he'll destroy hatton is getting a bit carried away
This thread is about how Hatton would destroy Bradley in 7-8 rounds. Hatton fans are the ones that need to slow down. Maybe he needs to get knocked into another turnbuckle before many of you guys stop overrating him.
the thread started off about that . we'll leave it there was thinking we were having a good discussion until that post.
Its not "overrating" when you pick and established champ who has never lost at the weight over a still raw guy with a couple of half decent wins. "Overrating" is when a guy becomes a destroyer on the back what Bradley has achieved.
I have no problem with people picking Hatton. The problem I have is people picking Hatton to destroy him. Fighters with good defense, good chins, and good handspeed rarely get destroyed. Guys like Hatton who come face first, throw leaping left hooks and are completely susceptable to the jab get destroyed.
Its an interesting fight, it should show whether the Lascano fight was the start of a decline or just an off night.
no it wouldn't, benn and eubank were household names, no one has heard of witter, even when he had a belt. you really think it would have been a bigger fight than hatton v castillo? :huh
So you're saying he needs to unify all the belts before fighting Hatton??? The only fights that might help prepare him for Hatton are fights against Torres, Urango or Randall Bailey. He should face someone who's a vicious body puncher so we can see how he'd handle the accumulation. That said, Bradley would probably outbox Hatton at this point in their respective careers. I have a lot of respect for Hatton, and I still have him in my top 10 P4P, but he's clearly lost a step or two since his heyday, and I'm not sure he'd be able to cut off the ring against Bradley at this point.
witter barely threw a punch against bradley, it wasn't like bradley did anything amazing that night to win it. and now all of a sudden hatton's no match for him, lol. bradley's a good young fighter, but hatton is being underestimated and bradley overrated.