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i did :verysadatsch

 

ill do my own 1 on Julio cesar Chavez 2mo so no1 do that:yep

im off to the pub nowthumbsup

 

I used Wiki as an aid no doubt, only for time lines damn I seen all of Durans fights!!

 

Aye I know mate but I remembered you saying you were "done with boxing" last week so I was glad to see some happy faces in your post!:yep:good

 

the harry greb post brilliant my favourite fighter bigger balls than another fighter i know i read some where he had to sit in bars reckoning to be pissed in order to make a lot of his fights happen dont know the truth in this but one thing is sure he was one hard ba5tard

 

well, i quoted from different places...but a lot of my own words as well...
fookin critiques

 

Who cares if it is cut and paste or own words...:yep

If it is interesting and educational it works for me...:good

 

Matthew Hatton(Relentless/Magic)
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Real name Matthew James Hatton
Nickname(s) Magic
Rated at Welterweight
Height 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
Nationality British
Birth date May 15, 1981 (age 29)
Birth place Stockport, England
Stance Orthodox
Boxing record
Total fights 47
Wins 41
Wins by KO 16
Losses 4
Draws 2
No contests 0
Matthew James Hatton (born 15 May 1981 in Stockport), is a professional boxer, using the nickname "Magic". He is a welterweight, and is a former Commonwealth and World title challenger and the current European Champion.
He is the younger brother of World Champion boxer Ricky Hatton, and has fought on the undercard of many of Ricky's biggest fights.
He is currently ranked #11[1] in the world and #1[2] in the United Kingdom in the welterweight division by BoxRec.
Contents [hide]
1 Biography
1.1 Amateur
2 Professional boxing career
2.1 British Title
2.2 Commonwealth Title
2.3 Hatton vs. Ben Tackie
2.4 Hatton vs. Bami
2.5 Hatton vs. Judah
2.6 Hatton vs. Mayweather
2.7 Hatton vs. Branco
3 Championships held
4 Professional boxing record
5 See also
6 External links
7 References
[edit]Biography

Hatton was born in Stockport, Greater Manchester, England to Ray and Carol. Before becoming a professional boxer, Hatton worked for the family carpet business as a carpet fitter. He and his girlfriend Jenna Coyne have a son named Jack, who was born in 2006. Unlike his brother Ricky, dad Ray, and the majority of his family who are supporters of Manchester City, Matthew supports Manchester United.[3]
[edit]Amateur
Hatton began boxing at the age of 12,[4] and had 22 amateur contests, winning 18.
[edit]Professional boxing career

Hatton's career as a professional boxer began in late 2000 with a point's victory over David White, on the undercard of brother Ricky's fight with Giuseppe Lauri. Hatton was undefeated in his first 13 fights before a point's loss to journeyman David Kirk in 2003. In 2004, Hatton went on to defeat Robert Burton to win the British Central Area welterweight title, and six months later defeated the same man to claim the light middleweight version of the title.
[edit]British Title
On 20 October 2006, Hatton was disqualified for low blows in the tenth and final round of a British Welterweight title eliminator against Alan Bosworth. Victory may well have given Hatton a shot at the British Welterweight title which was held at the time by Scottish boxer Kevin Anderson.
In 2007, Hatton won the IBF International welterweight title by defeating American Frank Houghtaling, and in his next fight defeated Puerto Rican Edwin Vazquez to win the IBF Inter-Continental title. Both fights were held in Las Vegas, Nevada on the undercard of Ricky Hatton's fights with Juan Urango and José Luis Castillo.
[edit]Commonwealth Title
On 28 May 2008, Hatton lost to Craig Watson on a points decision with scores of 116-112, 117-112 and 118-111 in a challenge for the Commonwealth welterweight championship.[5] The fight was held at the City of Manchester Stadium on the undercard of Ricky Hatton's fight with Juan Lazcano.
A short time after his loss to Watson, Hatton decided to leave long-time trainer Billy Graham and his Phoenix Camp Gym. Hatton would go on to be trained at Bobby Rimmer's Boxing Academy based in Stalybridge under the guidance of Lee Beard, who is also assistant trainer to Ricky Hatton.[6]
[edit]Hatton vs. Ben Tackie
Hatton fought former World title challenger Ben Tackie on the undercard of Ricky Hatton's fight with Paul Malignaggi at the MGM Grand, Las Vegas on 22 November 2008. Tackie was defeated by Ricky Hatton over 12 rounds in December 2003. Hatton defeated Tackie via a convincing unanimous decision with scores of 98-92, 98-92 and 97-93 in a performance which has been described as the best of his career.[7]
[edit]Hatton vs. Bami
On 28 March 2009, Hatton defeated Ted Bami via a 6th round stoppage in an eliminator for the IBO welterweight Title.[8]
[edit]Hatton vs. Judah
Hatton was scheduled to fight Zab Judah on September 19, 2009 at the MGM Grand arena in a welterweight bout as part of the undercard of the Mayweather-Marquez fight.[9] This fight was postponed due to the main bout being postponed owing to a rib injury to Mayweather. Instead Hatton fought Lovemore N'dou for the IBO Welterweight title at Fenton Manor in Stoke-on-Trent on Noverber 13, 2009, the contest was scored a draw(robbed).[10]
Hatton vs. Mayweather
British daily comic book The Sun reported on 30 December 2009 that Hatton could face Floyd Mayweather Jr in a shock fight after Mayweathers proposed fight against Manny Pacquiao looked like it would not go ahead.[11]
[edit]Hatton vs. Branco
Matthew Hatton claimed the vacant European welterweight title with a unanimous points win over Gianluca Branco in Dagenham on 26/03/10.


Light Middleweight ATG status awaits for this warrior and vengeancance for his big brother if pacquiao takes the tests that the world awaits.

Championships held

IBF Inter-Continental Welterweight title
IBF International Welterweight title
British Central Area Welterweight title
British Central Area Light-Middleweight title
European Welterweight title
[edit]Professional boxing record

40 Wins (15 knockouts, 25 decisions), 4 Losses, 2 Draws[12]
Res. Record Opponnent Type Rd., Time Date Location Notes
N/A 40-4-2 Saúl Álvarez N/A - (12) 2011-03-05 Honda Center, Anaheim, California vacant WBC Light Middleweight Title.
Win 40-4-2 Yuriy Nuzhnenko Decision
Unanimous 12 (12) 2010-07-16 Bolton Arena, Bolton, Greater Manchester, England Retained EBU (European) welterweight title
Hatton down in 1st
Win 39-4-2 Gianluca Branco Decision
Unanimous 12 (12) 2010-03-26 Goresbrook Leisure Centre, Dagenham, Essex, England Won vacant EBU (European) welterweight title
Win 38-4-2 Mikheil Khutsishvili TKO 5 (8)
2:35 2010-02-19 Fenton Manor Sports Complex, Stoke, Staffordshire, England
Draw 37-4-2 Lovemore N'dou Decision
Draw 12 (12) 2009-11-13 Fenton Manor Sports Complex, Stoke, Staffordshire, England International Boxing Organization Welterweight Title
Win 37-4-1 Ernesto Zepeda Decision
Unanimous 8 (8) 2009-05-02 MGM Grand, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
Win 36-4-1 Ted Bami TKO 6 (12)
2:03 2009-03-28 Leisure Centre,[disambiguation needed] Altrincham, Greater Manchester, England IBO Welterweight Title Eliminator
Bami came in one pound over the weight limit on his first visit to the scales
Win 35-4-1 Ben Tackie Decision
Unanimous 10 (10) 2008-11-22 MGM Grand, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
Win 34-4-1 Scott Woolford Decision
Points 8 (8) 2008-09-05 Harvey Hadden Leisure Centre, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England
Lose 33-4-1 Craig Watson Decision
Unanimous 12 (12) 2008-05-24 City of Manchester Stadium, Manchester, England
Win 33-3-1 Frankie Santos Decision
Unanimous 8 (8) 2007-12-08 MGM Grand, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
Win 32-3-1 Samuli Leppiaho RTD 6 (8)
3:00 2007-10-20 National Stadium, Dublin, Ireland
Win 31-3-1 Edwin Vazquez Decision
Unanimous 12 (12) 2007-06-23 Thomas & Mack Center, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States Retained IBF Inter-Continental Welterweight Title
Win 30-3-1 Frank Houghtaling RTD 7 (12)
3:00 2007-01-20 Paris Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States Won vacant IBF Inter-Continental Welterweight Title
Win 29-3-1 Volodymyr Borovskyi Decision
Points 6 (6) 2006-12-10 Octagon Centre, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England

Unfortunately there is no highlight videos on Youtube of Relentless, so you will all need to let your imagination run wild.

 

Name: Joe Frazier
Nickname: Smokin' Joe

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Height: 5 ft. 11.5 in. (182 cm.)

Birth: January 12, 1944

Boxing record
Total fights 37
Wins 32
KO's 27
Losses 4 (3)
Draws 1
No contests 0


Amateur: At the 1964 Tokyo Olympic games Frazier brought home the USA's only Boxing gold medal. Frazier had no business winning a gold medal in the 1964 Olympics. He had been beaten in the Olympic trials by Buster Mathis, a fighter with a far better amateur record. But Mathis broke his thumb while training for the Olympics and Frazier got his chance. It was ironic because in the Olympic semi-finals, Joe Frazier broke his own thumb. But "Smokin' Joe" Frazier was not a man to be denied. He had the thumb taped, basically fought with one hand in the finals and won the gold medal. It was typical of this gutsy fighter.

Cloverlay: Following his 4th pro fight, Yank Durham, Joe Frazier's Manager/Trainer, agreed sponsorship of Frazier with a Group of Philadelphians. A mix of teachers, clergy, bankers and clerks. One notable sponsor was now HBO analyst, Larry Merchant. This arrangement was similar to that of Ali's with the Louisville Sponsoring Group.

80 shares were offered @ $250.00 each.
In turn, they shared in 35% of Joe Fraziers fight purse.
Joe Frazier got 50% of the fight purse.
Plus $100.00/week salary.

After 6-months, Joe Frazier got a raise from $100/Week to $173/Week. By November 1967 it consisted of 231 Shareholders, and had a Net Worth of $468,350. Yank Durham, Joe Frazier's Manager/Trainer got 15% of the Fight Purse.

The Cloverlay, Inc. contract, which started on 1/1/66 ended on December 15, 1974, when Joe Frazier bought out the shareholders for approximately $14,500 per share. In January 1973 Cloverlay's net value was $1,200,000.


Road to Champion: Frazier's professional career did not start as well as he may have hoped. In just his second fight he was knocked down by 5 fight novice Mike Bruce however he went on to score a 3rd round knockout of Bruce. Frazier went on to extend his run of stoppages to 11 until he met tough Argentine Oscar Bonavena. Joe was knocked down twice in the 2nd round en route to a disputed Majority Decision at Madison Square Garden.

In Frazier's 17th bout in July '67 came his most impressive victory date. Smokin' Joe was the first man to stop the Iron Jawed Canadian who had previously gone the distance with Ali. Frazier fractured George Chuvalo's orbit (the bone under George's eye) so badly that Chuvalo needed reconstructive surgery to correct the injury as his eye partially dropped into the fault line fracture.

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Heavyweight Champion of the World: In March 1968 Frazier fought for a version of the Heavyweight title. Following Ali being stripped of the title, Joe fought for the Vacant NYSAC World title. His opponent was the man who previously beaten him in the Olympic Trials, Buster Mathis. Frazier started well in the first but in the following rounds Mathis took control of the bout "keeping Joe off balance with accurate sharp jabs, and stinging right hands to the head". 7 through 10 saw Mathis start to tire and was forced to stand and trade with Joe at times. Mathis had previously never gone past Round 7. After rounds of relentless pressure from Frazier he caught Mathis with a huge signature left hand and Mathis was in no state to continue despite getting to his feet.

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In his second defence Frazier handed former foe Oscar Bonavena a rematch following their close fight 2 years previously. This time Frazier won a clearer unanimous decision. In his fourth defence Smokin' Joe beat Jerry Quarry in the 1969 Fight of the Year. The bout was non stop action, a real heavyweight slugfest. As the bout wore on, Quarry was cut and he was getting staggered by Frazier’s famous left hook. It ended in seven. Quarry had a severe cut and at this point Frazier had taken command in the gruelling bout.

Two years later after stoppage wins over Jimmy Ellis and Bob Foster, Frazier finally met with Muhammad Ali in Maddison Square Garden. The fight was given the promotional nickname "The Fight of the Century". This was the first fight where both the Heavyweight champion and challenger entered the fight unbeaten and both men were guaranteed $2.5m, a record in itself. More about the fight earlier in the thread here.

After further stoppage defences against Terry Daniels and Ron Stander, Frazier met another unbeaten American. This time it was George Foreman in Kingston, Jamaica. In a fight in which they both wore eight-ounce gloves, Frazier was knocked down three times in the first round, and three times in the second round before the Referee waved him off and stopped the bout to protect him from further punishment. The bout was awarded the Fight of the Year for 1973.

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Comeback: Frazier returned 6 months later against British heavyweight Joe Bugner at the Earls Court in a non-title fight. Frazier won via decision with Bugner touching down in the 10th round.

In January of 1974 Frazier met Muhammad Ali for the second time. the fight was considered by many fans and experts the most insignificant and boring fight of their rivalry. But this does not mean the fight itself was insignificant or boring; quite the contrary: Ali wanted to avenge his loss to Frazier in their first fight, and a world title try at Heavyweight Champion George Foreman, who had dethroned Frazier, was at stake. Muhammad Ali was awarded a unanimous decision over Joe Frazier. Judge Jack Gordon scored the fight 8-4, judge Tony Castellano scored it 7-4-1, and referee Tony Perez had it 6-5-1. Their first and third fights became part of boxing's lore, but most viewers considered the second fight to be entertaining as well.

After his second defeat, Joe faced previous opponents Jerry Quarry and Jimmy Ellis. Repeating his stoppage victories in the 5th and 9th round respectively.

Then came the finale of the Ali-Frazier trilogy, the Thrilla in Manila. The fight was the 1975 Ring Magazine Fight of the Year and once named The Ring magazine's #1 Fight of All Time. If you haven't watched it, watch it.

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Frazier attempted to redeem his first loss to George Foreman in his next bout. However, he was again unsuccessful as he was this time stopped in the 5th round. Joe then entered retirement before a brief comeback five years later in which he drew with Floyd Cummings.



Style: Frazier was a strong, "swarmer" style boxer who applied great pressure on his opponent and dealt out tremendous punishment with a relentless attack of lefts and rights; His left hook was especially stiff and quick when delivered during his bob-and-weave perpetual attack; He fought three minutes per round and never seemed to tire; He could take punishment too and not be bothered.

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Legacy

-3 time Ring Fighter of the Year ('67, '70, '71)
-ESB #10 Heavyweight of All time
-Inductee of both the International Boxing Hall of Fame and the World Boxing Hall of Fame.
- Ring 39th Biggest Puncher of All time.
- Ring #42 from 1922-2002.

 

What is the point of a) choosing a current fighter, b) choosing a **** fighter and c) copying a pasting every single word from wikipedia. This adds nothing to the thread whatsoever.