This is why I admire Ricky Hatton...

Good point and Rui I don't think Hatton intended to stay at 147 but Rui is right...$$ is Hattons master and his main motivation nowadays.

 

DINAMITA, it is clear that you dissect a person's post and attempt to tailor a portion of that post in order to support your argument, all the while ignoring the context under which it was posted. If that's your idea of "winning an argument", then you're doing a pretty shitty job -- and it actually discourages the other person from continuing because what you're doing is completely ignoring the other individual's points (which often bears relevance on the point that you're addressing) and nitpicking certain aspects to best suit what you think is true.

 

Valid point and one I backed up in my above post but Hatton did talk of a fight with Mayweather when Mayweather fought Gatti at 140 but it didn't materialise.Back then,the fight would have been far less lucrative but I'm not denying Hattons motivation is £$£$£$

 

Exactly, then maybe the 'I was at the wrong weight' excuses would have carried some water. He didn't lose because he wasn't a natural Welterweight; he got outclassed by a much better (and naturally smaller, or at least lighter) fighter.

 

The f'k are you talking about? Nobody is saying that per se; it was a risk in that he would likely lose - said risk being more than counterbalanced by the reward of $20 million, 'I lost to the p4p best out of my natural weightclass' (no mention that the other fighter was even more out of his natural weightclass) etc etc.

If Ricky Hatton had the stones he's being given credit for in this thread he would go up to Welterweight and fought Cotto instead of the likes of Pauli Maligigigngianaiigi. And he would have fought Witter when it was a legitimate unification bout and potential classic domestic match as well :yep

 

I don't feel the need to address this because now you're really getting into a matter of fantasy (with all the talks of public confrontations, build-ups, etc.). It's all a matter of arbitrary speculation from this point on.

Poly already addressed this.

Actually, I don't know how fresh your memory is, but people were speculating how well Pacquiao would translate to 135, let along 140. And Marquez' transition would've been even more dubious.

 

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So who's more admirable from this clip?


BTW, Hatton was on a win/win situation with Mayweather. Few people would pick him to beat Mayweather at 140 let alone at 147 where he barely beat Collazo. Hatton receives little shame in losing to a great fighter and gets a mega purse for his troubles. But you admire him for that while looking past the fact that he blatantly wouldn't fight Witter. A fight that was as natural to make as Eubank/Benn and would of been a treat for all British fight fans.Ah, but then Witter was not up to Hattons risk/reward standarsd was he.

 

I suggest you listen to hatton himself; every time he speaks he says that, and that the referee cheated him.

 

Is that why Hatton didn't want no part of Mayweather when he was at 140?
Because he wanted to fight him at 147 and have a perfect excuse for when he lost?, "I only lost because I suck at 147".

 

You're not even arguing with civility. You're blatantly ignoring some of the points that I bring up and using edits to arbitrarily target some of my points that you feel are weak without including my other points that follow it up.

For instance, I've asked you twice to clarify your belief that the fighters around 130/135 are avoiding Pacquiao, but you still have not addressed this issue, instead choosing to move on.