How would prime Ricky Hatton do in today's era?

He’s made for Matias, Lopez and Davis, but could beat Haney and Garcia. Lomachenko isn’t in the discussion because he’s far too small for 140lbs, beats no-one at 147lbs (at world level).

 

Far too small for 140? He's half and inch shorter than Matias, Pograis and Lopez. Half and inch is now deemed too small for a division. Is Nick Ball too small for 126 when he beat Ford and should of beat Vargas. Was Catterall who is shorter than Hatton too small when he beat Taylor?

 

Honestly he'd probably have all 4 belts (until he got stripped).

Stylistically Matias or Antuanne Russell would have the best chance against him. Then maybe pitbull but I could see that fight being like Hatton vs. Ben Tackie (if anyone remembers that). Ricky could box a little when he had to and his feet were quick enough to do that.

Ricky stops Haney outright and Teo would get dragged into an inside fight against him and get smothered to death. Teo likes when guys come to him, but he can't work if he's getting smothered. Josh would lose for the same reason Teo would. Actually pretty much everyone else not mentioned would probably lose for that same reason.

 

Hatton-Tszyu was an ugly fight. It was as much a wrestling match as a boxing match.

Even though Tszyu was at the end of his career for the fight, I think he would have beaten Hatton in a cleaner fight.

 

He'd steamroll anyone at 140 right now at 147 he'd be alot less effective because that just wasn't his weight Ennis and Crawford would KO Hatton at 147.

 

Hatton struggled with Collazo and was stopped by two guys who weren’t know for their punching power. He didn’t move his head and came in on straight lines. He also grappled a ton.

I think against feather-fists (except maybe Shakur), he does well. He did still have fast feet and hands and his style was ugly but effective. Against punchers, I think he gets into trouble.

 

Loma is better than Shakur and is better than Hatton was however, he might be too small to deal with Hatton`s pressure and body shots.

 

Loma only started struggling at 135, he`s not strong enough for a strong 140lbs fighter, Ball was hurt several times in his last fight against a fighter that was not as good as Hatton.

 

Collazo was a welterweight, Hatton's style was all about being physical and mauling guys to disrupt their style and against bigger guys that style simply didn't work. It's why Taylor now despite supposedly struggling at the weight won't move up because welters would expose the weakness of his style. Hatton loses to all the top guys at 147, simply all wrong for him at that weight, hence why he looked awful in every fight at that weight.

As for Hatton's chin, it wasn't iron Magee dropped him and Pac sparked him out cold, but Mayweather was naturally bigger and headbutting the ring post obviously didn't help. He was shot by the time he fought Senchenko and again that was at welterweight. So I wouldn't really put much value to those stoppages to Senchenko and Mayweather as to the quality of his chin at 140. He did beat Tszyu after all, if you don't have at least a decent chin you are not beating Tszyu.

 

Wasn't really saying anything about how Hatton would do against either of them due to the huge weight difference. Was simply highlighting the fact that 5'7.5" inch Hatton being too small for the 140 division now is ludicrous as he's basically the same size as everyone at 140 now with a few exceptions like Taylor.

 

So Hatton could bully him, which is exactly what I said lol.

 

Collazo was still nothing special and he ran Hatton close. Lopez is roughly the same size but has better punching power and is more athletic. Many of these guys today boil down to JWW, they are all bigger than Hatton. The better guys that Hatton beat in his career were smaller, either career LWW or blown-up fighters from lower weight classes. Also, a lot of them were at the end of their careers like Zoo, Phillips, and JLC.

He was more effective at 140 pounds, no doubt about it but today he'd be fighting weight bullies and I don't think he would do well. He could probably still win a strap if he fought Haney or Cattrell.

 

Do you think boxers only learned how to cut weight in the last 10 years or so? If you do, your wrong. Hatton himself cut a lot of weight to make the 140 limit, he wasn't a small super lightweight, which is why he was heavier than Collazo when he moved up to fight him.

Lopez is a former lightweight while Collazo was a career welterweight who rehydrated up as high as 160 when he fought Mosley. He was 156lbs against Hatton. Lopez might indeed rehydrate up to as high as that, it's no secret he was a big lightweight. Maybe Lopez does beat Hatton, as Hatton's aggressive style suits his counter punching style. It's why in my original post I singled Lopez out as being a guy that Hatton wouldn't just run through like the rest of the division.

But Kambosos Jr is nothing special either and he beat Lopez. Martin too isn't on Hatton's level and some think Lopez lost that fight. Let's not pretend Lopez is invincible he can be pressured and he can be beat. Both Hatton and Lopez could be beat and the fight would be competitive.

 

Oh okay, also at 5`11 Taylor is too big for 140 anyway.

 

Agreed he's huge for the weight, but he's trapped at 140 because his style would be ineffective against similar sized opponents.