Undefeated Ricky Hatton VS Undefeated Miguel Cotto 140lbs

Cotto and comfortably.

 

Cotto was kind of drained at 140 (he looked like a corpse going into the Malignaggi fight), but I don't think it's enough to impair his performance enough where he loses. Not that Hatton is a scrub, I put both of them in the "very good" category, but Cotto is better and has more tools to work with. He can apply the pressure, break opponents down to the body, or use the ring and use more movement and win that way too.

Cotto got rocked against Corley and hurt pretty bad against Torres, but recovered and I don't think he was THAT drained considering the number of bombs he took from Torres and stayed on his feet. He didn't go down until Torres pushed him down. Hatton is going to take a lot of leather when he's coming forward to try to get to Cotto's body, whether it be Cotto timing him before he throws, or countering Hatton's attack. If Hatton tries to box and use his quicker feet (one of Ricky's advantages, he had very good foot speed) like he did against Tackie and the latter rounds against Urango, he'll probably lose in a more tactical fight as well.

Eventually Hatton would be worn down. To Hatton's credit, he went out on his shield and tried to knock Mayweather out with that leaping left hook that he knocked Carlos Maussa out with (a punch he fell in love with and would get him in trouble numerous times). But I always respected that Hatton didn't go in a shell against Floyd like many fighters do. He took a gamble on a low percentage shot and got KO'd for it, but he really did go out on his shield rather than get mentally defeated and more or less accept a decision loss. Hatton would probably take some risks here again, and get stopped in the mid or late rounds.

 

Hatton, when not snorting lemo an on the ale, wins by lovely body punch stoppage in late rounds

 

Peopl forget how good Hatton was. He was never the same after Floyd KOed him

 

:good Yes mate

 

Would've been a great fight for sure.

Hatton by SD and busted ribs all round.

 

Cotto was the better boxer and has achieved more in his career but I think Hatton would stand on his toes and not give cotto the space to do his thing. At140 I think Hatton would win on points on late stoppage unless he gets cut would be a great fight pity it never happened.

 

A fight that I always wanted to see. Damn shame it didn't happen. IMO Hatton at 140 was better than Cotto at 140 so I got Hatton.

 

Would have been a great fight but I'd have to give it to Cotto by late stoppage. Hatton has the ability to make Cotto quite as well though.

 

cotto was a beast at 140 but chinny, cotto UD. But reckon hatton could drop his ass a few times.

 

Old inactive shot smaller Kostya is less than old inactive shot but way bigger and stronger Martinez. Cotto resume is way better and Hatton's mauls smaller man Cotto would be stronger, He would try to maul Cotto but gets stopped.

 

Hatton's greatest victory is against a 35 year old fighting once a year Kostya Tzsyu. And even then, Dave Parriss made the blueprint on how to be a biased, incompetent ref in that fight. That was reinforced when he demonstrated the same bias and incompetence in the Rogan ***ton and MAB Khan fights. If the fight would occur in Manchester with Parriss reffing, Hatton destroys him. Anywhere else with a different ref, Cotto outboxes him and probably stops him late. People seem to forget how good a BOXER Miguel was. And just for the record, I would hate to think what a vicious, mean, granite chinned, naturally big welterweight like Antonio Margarito would do to Hatton as Ricky would not have the boxing skills or strength to keep the Tijuana Tornada off of him. Scary.

 

Massive Ricky fan but I had to click a Cotto win. Would of been a great fight, would not be one sided and would be pretty grueling but Cotto,s class would show through comfortably and Ricky would start walking on to something big too often to last the distance.