Ricky Hatton's place among the British greats?

Well to be fair, a lot of the pre-Tszyu stuff was ok.But once he started consistently fighting at world level it was a different story

 

Hatton did show some nice flashes though to show he wasn't a completely unrespectable fighter.

I mean, Saddler is horrible to watch as well. I'm not comparing them AT ALL (Saddler a lock for top 30, Hatton doesn't make top 200 off top of my head ) but Hatton was horrible to watch in some of his supposed 'key fights' so it should be held against him to an extent, especially as the people he had to maul were nowhere near the class of Pep.

 

He was like a dirt poor man's Jack "Kid" Berg, who was pretty awful to watch in his own right.

 

Where would you rank Stracey? As good as it is being away from home, a few good rounds against a cut Napoles is not a fantastic achievement, although not get stopped against him after getting floored early was (to an extent, I mean Napoles>Tszyu as a win is as much of a gap in class you could find at championship level) and although Stracey was decent, the only other notable thing that comes to my mind is Palomino breaking him down with those savage body shots. I'd have Hatton above him.

A sound judgement? Or incredibly ignorant and illinformed? Discuss.

 

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hatton is overated and berg would overwhelm him

sweet pea what have you seen of berg

 

Agreed. Before he came a knobhead he was easy to root for, and looks a quality fighter when hammered with a load of mates as most over channels have gone onto rolling ads or Ceefax

 

And? When did I say anything to the contrary?

I've seen most of two of his fights against Chocolate and Canzoneri that were up on Youtube not long ago. I never questioned his status as a fighter, I merely said he was dreadful to watch. Very ugly style, particularly against boxers like Chocolate, who I thought deserved the verdict in that fight, and apparently did according to many other sources.

 

There ya go Mr. Butt.

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i read somewhere years ago that the chocolate fight could of gone either way,are you talking about the the second canzonzeri fight berg walks on to the punch i think the ref could of counted to one hundred and berg would of not made the count and been able to carry on



thanks sweet pea i have not seen this in years

 

I'd like to see Berg vs Chocolate. Have only seen the above Canzoneri fight which is a peach of a punch that fells him.

 

Not a stracey fan either really, to be honest, almost allof his notable wins were against washed up fighters.I thin he was a notch better than Hatton as a fighter though, but that's about the level i'd put Hatton at.I'm not saying i think he was inept or anything. like that.

the much mocked Dave Boy Green was a notch above Ricky as well in his brief prime imo, just to use another Brit from that era as an example.

 

I say all 3, hes a Brit, Jamaicans love him, he lives there and he won Gold for Canada. Fighting for Britain was partly due to it being the best moneymaker

Anyway back to Hatton, he gets underrated on this forum, he had a hell of an engine giving none stop activity, very much underrated speed, very strong, a very good chin (taking Tyszus best), and smarter than given credit for. His pressure would be a problem for allot of fighters

All that aside he never proved himself the best LWW in the North of England, which is the fight we all wanted

 

Is he mocked purely because Leonard blitzed him? That would be unfair IMO. I think he stopped Stracey incidentally, though I haven't seen the fight.

 

I thought Hodkinson had good talent he just cut to easy, i saw his fights with Villasana and he was doing a number on him before being stopped on cuts. Big puncher and fast hands, his defense wasnt to hot though.