Why Is Hatton Obsessed With Mayweather?

[Shanus]

If you are a pretty boy, there is allways some ugly **** who wants to beat you up..

Fact of life.

[squealpiggy]

When you are a contender you want to beat the champ. If someone is the best around, he's the guy to beat. There's nothing more to it than that. Hatton wants to fight Mayweather because Mayweather is good looking and Ricky is jealous? What an absurd idea.

[Benny Leonard]

Errrr.......Kostya. Perhaps better than anyone PBF has fought. It is a fact. Trying to sc**** the barrel with all these names PBF has fought and beat to make him God. But i believe Hatton would more than likely beat as well. Bottom line is stop comparing resumes.
PBF is p4p number 1 because of how he beat most of the people on his resume but dont mean he cant be beat.

Not that version of Kostya Tszyu. If it was a very early 30's, I would give it to you, but a 35 year old, blah, blah, blah, not the same fighter. Especially given Hatton "Boy Georged" Tszyu all fight. But hey, I guess you have to do what works, what will get the job done.

And yes, Mayweather can be beat.

I don't know, he just doesn't impress me like say,
Sugar Ray Leonard.

[squealpiggy]

It's funny that before the Kostya fight noone gave Hatton a prayer, and afterwards everyone claims it was common knowledge that Kostya was "past it".

[Benny Leonard]

It's funny that before the Kostya fight noone gave Hatton a prayer, and afterwards everyone claims it was common knowledge that Kostya was "past it".

That's because most people get their ****s hard from one fight. People love to stay in the Fog because they don't want to see the truth. There were people that said Tszyu was going to lose, or at least could lose.
Emanuel, Ray Leonard, and a couple of others in the media, said they favored Hatton. Those who picked Tszyu couldnt' get over how he could come back the way he did, at this age, at this stage of his career, to Knockout Mitchell so fast.

Hatton new it. FRANK WARREN KNEW IT. When Frank knows Tszyu is there for the taking, you know where to place your bet.

Also, when he fought Zab Judah, Judah acknowledged that Tszyu wasn't the same fighter he once was, which is why he (Zab) thought he was going to win. The problem? despite Tszyu's declined attributes, one attribute was still there, POWER.
Zab didn't have a great Chin, and got knocked out.

Tszyu was the underdog going into the Mitchell fight, remember that.

But, it was reported that people who saw Mitchell before the fight, namely Emanuel and Tyson, saw Mitchell **** his pants.

If you look at the match, Mitchell was out-boxing Tszyu early, but then got caught, and his legs were shot; this would leave him stationary and he got caught flush with shots.

Also, Hatton said before the fight why he would win, REMEMBER that?
Hatton was saying how he was the younger fighter. How the Mitchell fight was to short of a fight to determine if Tszyu was really back because it didn't test his endurance. Remember, 9 rounds in 3 years is crap for a fighter. Two serious injuries that needed surgery will effect the body chemistry. Tszyu also was in the same weight division since the start of his career, and it hurt him. How? Two injuries. Looked like **** at the weighin.

He was not doing so well with Jesse James either. Yes, he knocked him out by TKO stoppage of a busted ear-drum, but looked off.

Tszyu declined in speed, and he didn't have the same elusive style as he did in his early days.

[squealpiggy]

Having said that NOONE gave Hatton a chance apart from Hatton's fans. The people who are using Kostya's age against Hatton now are the same people who were saying that Hatton was going to get his clock cleaned before.

[kayjay]

Appealing to Kostya's age or the number of rounds he had recently fought (well he must've still been good if he didn't need many rounds, duh) is an e-sissy move. But we have a number of e-sissies here.

[Guest]

Appealing to Kostya's age or the number of rounds he had recently fought (well he must've still been good if he didn't need many rounds, duh) is an e-sissy move. But we have a number of e-sissies here.

Well, it is a fact that injuries and age cause fighters to decline and Tsyzu had a combination of the two working against him. You only want to ignore it because it's a fact that these factors hindered his performance.

Secondly, what is so great about Kostya Tsyzu? Who did he beat that made him an all-time great? People are trying to say Hatton's win over an old Tsyzu is better than Floyd's wins over a prime Castillo, but Castillo has BY FAR the better resume between him and Kostya. This is not even debateable. And when you factor in their ages at the time of the fights, the wins over Castillo are clearly better than Hatton's win over an old Tsyzu...

[Guest]

I'm interested in you justifying what relevance it has to the present situation. Hatton didnt even refuse the fight, he just priced himself out of it at the time (maybe he didnt feel ready...nothing wrong with that, why would you take a fight if you felt in your mind and heart that you were going to lose). Because he didnt jump at the fight at one stage, does that mean that he can NEVER talk about that fighter, or try to get a bout with that fighter EVER AGAIN?

If so, why? I think that most fighters in the world have refused certain fighters, or took other fights instead of them. Muhammed Ali himself refused the fight with Chuvalo because it wasnt a good time for him. Does that somehow mean that he should never have had the opportunity to fight him at a later date?

Quit living in the past. Hatton wants the fight at the present time, Floyd and DLH both said that they would be interested in taking him on. So if Hatton wants to talk about it, build up the hype, publicise himself and get himself the opportunity of the fight, whats the problem? As long as he isnt being a prick about it...which it doesnt seem to me he is.

If Hatton wants to turn down the fight for whatever reason, I have no problem with that at all. Many fighters do the same thing for whatever reason. But the thing is Hatton is saying this is the fight he wants, it's a dream match for him, and that he feels he would beat Mayweather. He has said this in a number of interviews. When you're saying that, then it makes absolutely no sense to turn around and price yourself out of the fight or flat out turning it down. Hatton needs to shut up until he's ready to step up...

[iron mike tyson]

hatton has always said hes working towards the mayweather fight but never set a time line on it. granted hes always said hes 1 fight away from been where he needs to be to beat mayweather. hatton recently put hes time frame on the mayweather fight and this is winter 2007 , thats right folks end of this year. now for wateva reason the fights doesnt happen it is rickys fault unless mayweather prices himself out. and on the kostya tszyu situation of course hes age matters but the fact that he was the huge favourite going into the fight still makes it a massive name on hattons resume. also the ppl who wrote ricky off and then blamed kostyas age are the same ppl who didnt give calzaghe a chance but then branded lacy green and so on.