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Originally Posted by The_Visitation
Agreed. You may or may not think Hatton and Calzaghe are 'overrated' but no way can you include either in "biggest hypejobs of the decade". Khan and Lacy are good contenders, but for me there can be only one choice at the top - Audley Harrison. Fraudley defines "hype-job"
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i agree Calzaghe is far beyond potential "hypejob" status
but frankly he's a couple notches above Hatton in terms of both talent and resume
Hatton's best win? Malignaggi? i know it's too soon to speak down on it and i might get flamed for this, but Malignaggi is just not that good. he got to where he is through his mouth rather than his talent and it showed in the Hatton fight... plus he was a very savvy match-up for Hatton, Hatton's punch resistance has serious question marks around it so they can't put him in with a Bradley or Witter, but they still need him to face someone who they can build up in the eyes of the public... so the mouthy yet feather fisted and arguably prime Paulie is clearly the most convenient choice, like i said before, Hatton's career has been very opportunistic.
now i don't class Hatton as lowly as i do Khan or Fraudley, but his talent to recognition ratio is just as disproportionate as theirs if you get what i mean