Is it just a coincidence or...

Just a coincidence. When Hatton was at the top of the light welterweights, the champions of today where rising up through the division. Bradley and Khan who stand out as the true champions at 140 got the title chances against Junior Witter and Koltenik, who where the champions when Hatton was the main attraction. Same with Joe calzaghe, most of the top 10 fighters of today, supersix fighters where either rising up the division or in another division.

i think syf is spot on with his post its funny how this have never been mentioned before,obviously something too do with them both being british its definitly not total coincidence anyway

hmmm...yes

As a sidenote, you see the same thing happening at ww today.. The top dogs (Floyd, Pac, Mosley, Cotto) dominate WW, Berto is the one anomoly that is trying to squeeze his way into the system, but the rest of the division is pretty much shut out of financial prominence...

hmm.. Well I think the market was dominated by those two.. hence leaving very little room for other fighters to come up. There were other good fighters even back then, but they weren't getting the financial backing they needed to state a case to get fights. Now with both Hatton and Zags gone and Jones, and Bhop on their way out, there is a vacuum that needs to be filled, which allowed for more financial oppurtunity for up and coming boxers. So my answer would be somewhere inbetween yay and nay