Who Has Been A Better Ambassador For Boxing, Hatton or Calzaghe?

Hatton insisted on fighting the best at or close to their prime, brought thousands of fans across the atlantic won some, lost some but made alot of money.

Calzaghe hid out in Wales for ten years, grows a pair, fights two middle aged legends, wins (Controversially against bhop) then declares the sport is dying upton his retirement.

Ummmm let me think.

 

This isnt as straight forward as it seems

Yeah hatton had huge support and was much more fun to watch

However he lost his two biggest fights ( and pretty spectacularly at that ) and he was a terrible role model proffesionalism wise; drinking , eating **** food , blowing waaaaaay up in weight.


Calzaghe , I personally found him horribe to watch , left his biggest fights until the end of his carreer and speaks poorly of boxing now he's gone.

However , he beat EVERYONE they put in front of him, was always in perfect shape and was in that respect the perfect pro.

I'm surpising myself here and I'm going to have say Calzaghe.

 

Can't agree with that, Hatton has got a very boring style

 

Was/Is Hatton good for the sport? from what perspective? if from the view that he got a lot of people to follow him well yes, but for the overall good of the sport? not so sure. his lifestyle outside was not that of an athlete,his method ending of the relationship with billy graham, his style wasnt exactly an exhibition of the sweet science and in losing his two biggest fights in lets face it, brutal KO's he got people once again discussing the viability of boxing as a credible sport.

joe was great, but with general sports people still not following him and those in the know on boxing has many gripes with his style of punching or his career management


then again hatton comes across like a good person who can make people laugh so they both did good and bad things for the sport

 

Calzaghes's whole career has been full of contradictions:

"Boxing is a dying sport".....says the guy who stayed at home holding a minor world title.

also a crazy thing to say when he is going to become a promoter....what a over rated *****

 

Hatton took 55,000 to Vegas for Mayweather. :good

I'd go with Hatton.

 

hatton as a draw was gob smacking i mean the amount of fans he had was crazy. when are we ever gona see that a load of british fans with musical instruments singing so load you cant even hear the commatators mind my spelling lol

 

Your opinion is of course as valid as mine

its not that i found joe boring but that out of control windmill thing of his was just not my taste. Plus he did slap , he may well have slapped hard but slap he did.

 

Im also going to say Hatton, but what alot of people (mainly americans) dont realise is when they say 'Calzaghe stayed at home his entire career'' is they couldnt be more wrong. Calzaghe is Welsh, when he was coming up (before he was a UK superstar) he was a Welshman fighting Englishmen in England, Reid, Woodhall, Delaney, Eubank....all Englishmen in England which I guarentee is a more hostile atmosphere than any current American boxer has ever faced (bar maybe the very few who may have fought in some remote countries, but lets be honest, these great American boxers, Hopkins, Jones, Mayweather etc dont leave home field advantage very often do they), the whole 'he stayed at home' saying is bull****.

 

Hatton for me and its not even close.