whar are u talking about khan look nothing like the prince and fights nothing like him and has a compltley different personality and attitude
if any thing they are the complete opposite besides there skin colour
yer i was there on that contest and aware of how much he won the contest by but a kd is still a kd
yer i thinks its to early to go pro aswell
i read summit bout him offering to spar with ricky in prep for the zoo fight i tick he would be shocked at how right hatton is and get mauled
he need to trin in a pro gym wit pro fighters for a lil while and mature a lil bit
i think mayweather has more of an aire of "prince" about him
hatton defronde the king there for he is now king i dont think that makes him the best in the devision but until sum one beats him and i think the only person able to do that is mayweather the the title goes to hatton
FACT
on seeing the pic of haton next to zoo i was diapointed with hatton and think he should be training enoguht to stay in relavtive shape fair enough the guy gets big between fights but thats a lil over the top
im now backing zoo to win wit late round KO but i will still be rootng for hatton i love the underdog even if he is a fat pleb
he look very tanned on that pic noramlly hes got very pale skin so maybe hes been on vaction for a few weeks and had a bit of fun
i doubt it will be a factor he always blows up between fight
as do zoo but not that much
last night i was thinking about that fight and every thing tell me that zoo will win but i got that little feeling that hatton is gonna do the job on the night i dunno y
and if i was gonna bet on it i would still prbly go for zoo but i dunno (sry for going of subject)
cotto is know were near hatton when it comes to body punches he the best modern body puncher by a long stretch he's finish alot of his opponents with body shots probly more that most other body punchers that have been around i dont think he;s the ebest fighter around buy hell can he drop thoes left hooks ect
in refferance to the below the above post LOL sry to start the hole hatton cotto thing and get a lil off subject
and just for fun i noticed "tto" in both hattons and cottos name maybe there not so different after all
hatton has already proved that he belongs whith the elite
no one is saying that he is the top top of the elite but he is elite
without a shadow of a doubt to fight the way he does and to have knocked out the ppl he has it shows he is elite.
if someone had battered everyone who is near the elite and once was the elite then obviously they are elite, they may be at the bottom of the elite stock but they are definatly there.
oh and in refferance to the above post hatton has done similar things if not more than cotto and alot of u talk about him as if hes elite so hatton must be as well
the hook gatti used to chop dorin in half was a great body punch, but hatton has finished lots of opponents witht that same shot im gonna say hatton to the body but gatti is right up there both are brutal hook fighters.
i get the imppression when reading a lot of hatton posts on this site that alto fo ppl havent seen hatton fight
also as this site is mostly american that is probably true
hatton has a rep as a brawler wish he is but he is a very intelligent brwaler with birlliant head movement and he makes space inside to work
hatton talking about his game plan dones not give zoo any upper hand cos he game plan is always the same he leaves it to the opponent to see if they can deal with what he does and up until now some very tought fighter have not
posible senarois i think will be :
zoo in the first 6 rounds
or if it exeeds that distance hatton will win UD due to sheer work rate
its gonna be a bust up guys i cant wait
zoo didnt change his training time because due to the time difference in uas to england the time he noramlly trains works out at 2 in british time
stop making excuses
zoo is han enough to say he was beat by the better fight of witch he did after the fight WHY CANT YOU!
hell ya!!!
ur a boxing pureist thats what i like t see
im english and more of a gatti fan that a hotta fan but when u see a guy like hatton who is a gentleman with respect he makes the sport look good as does kostay
im a big fan of these to greats
isnt this what ever one was saying before zoo v. hatton
hatton is very big and i think he would come through some rough patches where zab worries hatton with his speed to finish it with a late KO
i thinks it al about how long zab can hold hatton off if he can manage it then i say hes got a strong chance
but if hatton get to his chin and cuts him down it wll all be over late on
kostay also hit low one 2 occasions
and how many america fight outside of america???!!!
also about the rough fight style ....
for fucks sake this is boxing not a tickling contest boxers these days need to man up there in a fight not at the movies
what the big deal wit brit V. america or what eva
we(british) enjoy british boxing
you(americans) enjoy american boxing
and we both enjoy world boxing does it matter where there from
duran was not in his prime in the heavier weights
i would have to say that around the estaban de jesus times were his best he had awsome power at that weight and was just unstopable
theres a very exciting crusier weigh prospect comming up called david haye
he bangs like i aint never seen hes had one loss to
carl "the cat" thompson in his 10th fight witch was far to early in his career to fight sumone like the cat
but he has an "i,ll fight any one" attiude
most powerful puncher i,v seen for a while
think he,ll go far
and hopefully then move up
this woulde be an intersting fight
i would have to back gatti i think he just too good to be beated by that wort of fighter but think it will go the distance and gatti would get the UD
maybe a couple of years back wiiter would have won cos gatti whould have tried to fight as he used to and wiiter power would tell
but with his new more refined style i think he would just be to tight for witter
i know witter would go into that fight as the underdog but i dont know why cos hes mixed wit better opposition IMO but not that much better but overall he's had more experience and i would back him for a ko in the championship rounds or a UD
hang on now hattons beat kostya ......
he,s was to old and not a real fighter yet a few hours ago he was a living ledgend and was gunna destroy hatton in 6
i dont even care that he won but ya,ll americans should have seen the smile on my face when he passed the six
since that was the round ya,ll were sayin he wouldnt make it past
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
what a twat
dude thinks he looks tought, he's funny
im 119lbs i,d kick ur out of proportion ghoust white ass
u dont even have a stance
this post is funny all u guys just bashing this dumb fool
thank god sum ne corrected the brodie and reid thing it was killing me reading this thread seeing no one had correct it then i got to da last page
and ma boy martinwbc did the honours
I HAVE TO SAY MEXICO HAS GOT IT WRAPPED UP
ALONG WITH THE US
puerto ricas vote no as to becomeing a part of america?????
then what the hell they all doing living there
(JOKE PPL)
hatton is quite a good technition(cant spell) him self just that hes an gressive one
i think i lot of people will be suprised
my not saying he will win cos zoo is just every thing you want in a figher
but all u pple sayin its gonna be first round ko or 3 round stoppage or whateva really wanna watch sum hatton fights
also its hard to stop a pessure figher like him in the first round
hatton is not just limited to an inside game
he's not a great boxer but he can do it when he wants to and quite effectivly
he's quite good at phase attacks where he moves in strikes then lays of for a second by putting his weight on his back foot and leaning back just a little bit the pushing in again to attack
its more of an amtuer move but is very effective
its quite hard to notice it very suttle but that is why its effectvie
watch carefully and u should see it
he just doest box much cos he dont need to
dont get me wrong i like america im going to florida for a 2 week vacation and my best friend who i visit is american
but you guys need to get over your selves
just because your not american doesnt mean ur not good
look at sturm whipping dlh
also you guys get on your high horse when fighers from countrys other than american dont go abroad to fight yet all your guys sit on ur big MECCA of boxing and do the same thing
by the way the british invented boxing
so i think you should at least show some gratitude to us for giving you the sport of boxing of which you then turned into a nasty back stabbing business
oh by the way we forgive you for destorying boxing as a sport
ONLY JOKING hahaha
im a boxer myself and know a lot about boxing but i cant agree with you runw/kife it is because of people like you that boxing is not a sport for everyone as it used to be
if people that new te ins and out of say soccer were aloud to watch it then it would not be the biggest sport in the world of which is it
having an attitude like that eman that every day fans could not get that chance to learn about it in the first
its just common sense when there rubbed against ya skin fast they can cuase cuts or grazing cos they can be quite rought they can get in eye aswell or whateva
basically there just inpractical and an anoyance
and anyway who wants to see a big ugly mug on the TV wit a beard full of last night dinner
i think he would clean up in which eva weight he chose to enter up to middle weight, and if he decided to fight at different weights he wold be a multiweight champon and bring back a little bit of what boxing need at the moment