Can anyone beat Hatton at 140?

[duffgun]

Witter looked slow in his last fight maybe a bit past his best now not sure if he could beat hatton anymore i would like to see Forbes fight Hatton but i think Hatton would win a close UD

[kamicazze]

id say only witter stylistically! malignaggi will give him tough 5 rounds b4 being overawed, torres and kotelnik would get pummelled, bradley would be destroyed, khan would get ktfo, guzman would lose as would pacquioa, casamayor and cambell and juan diaz! kastidis may stand a chance! all these fights are based on their respective styles of figtinig

[the_godslayer]

No is the short answer,
to elaborate ... yes Hatton is vulnerable to the left/check hook but it would take a special punch to put him down ... Floyds was assisted by the ringpost for as good a punch as it was, if the ring post was taken out of the equation the Hatton would have still been standing (this does NOT mean i am saying Hatton would have won that fight before you all start!!!)
IMO Hatton is not the linear/ring champ @140 for nothing ... Bradley is far too inexperienced to beat Hatton and would be destroyed inside 6 and as for Paulie well IMO the guy is a ****ing joke and ill bet anyone that Hatton will KO him if they meet, even if he doesnt he certainly wont lose.

[ironjab]

i think any good fighter at 140 will beat Ricky, Bradley will for sure, after watching Hatton last time out, its all over at the top level for the hitman

[Nicky_Hatton]

No is the short answer,
to elaborate ... yes Hatton is vulnerable to the left/check hook but it would take a special punch to put him down ... Floyds was assisted by the ringpost for as good a punch as it was, if the ring post was taken out of the equation the Hatton would have still been standing (this does NOT mean i am saying Hatton would have won that fight before you all start!!!)
IMO Hatton is not the linear/ring champ @140 for nothing ... Bradley is far too inexperienced to beat Hatton and would be destroyed inside 6 and as for Paulie well IMO the guy is a ****ing joke and ill bet anyone that Hatton will KO him if they meet, even if he doesnt he certainly wont lose.

Mate, I've read a lot of your stuff on here and think you're a decent poster, but strongly disagree about Hatton destroying Malignaggi.

[fightingfigs]

Malignaggi will beat him and Lovemore n"dou would beat him as well.


If Lazcano can stun and almost knock him out Malignaggi and N'dou would soundly beat Hatton.

[MikeBrew328]

i think any good fighter at 140 will beat Ricky, Bradley will for sure, after watching Hatton last time out, its all over at the top level for the hitman

Agreed. Hatton has always had defensive flaws but had a swag and intensity that compensated. He no longer has that.

Don't sleep on Malignaggi. He will at least embarrass Ricky, meanwhile if Ricky fights anybody else like DLH, Ricky might get seriously hurt. He should fight one more fight and get out.

And if it wasn't for the ring post in the Mayweather fight, Mayweather might've killed Ricky on his feet.

[The Monk]

I think there are several fighters who have a chance of beating Hatton at 140 at the moment. I give Bradley the best chance and would personally favour him over Ricky at the moment. I give Maglianaggi and Ngoudjo a decent chance and would say that a fight with either of these two would be 50/50, while Ricardo Torres is someone I can see actually KO'ing this diminished form of Hatton. I just feel that if Torres can land flush then Ricky's chin would be unable to stand upto the power.

I'd just like to say that I think no one at 140lbs beats a prime Hatton, but the Hatton we have at the present is someone whos lifestyle has eventually caught upto him and is no longer the fighter who beat the great Kostya Tszyu.

[Danny Gunz]

ricky hatton has way to many flaws to say he is unbeatable

[sugarshanenas]

I think Hatton still gots a couple years left but he isn't exactly the same as he was before as the amazing body puncher his lifestyle messed him up