Is Hatton One of the Top 30 Fighters of the Last Decade?

[Technical_Skill]

It's only 6:15 pm here on the Pacific coast, simpleton! Not bedtime yet.

6:15PM?

Way past your bed time,

Get some rest.

[Steelhammer86]

6:15PM?

Way past your bed time,

Get some rest.

If you're in London as you say, it must be well past midnight. Are you on crystal meth or something, staying awake all night?

[EliteSoldier]

Its not racism, its ignorance.

I'll bet good money that almost all of the 14 people who have voted no to this poll so far havent seen more than Hatton's last 4 tough fights.

They hate Ricky because he's white

[Cletus Funk]

Sorry, but some of those are just plain wrong.

Collins??? Are you sure??? You do know that all he's done in the last decade was run into retirement 2 weeks before he was due to fight Calzaghe and have a couple of no-name defences, right? I'd like to see your reasoning behind that one.

Tyson's body of work has been **** since 97, which kind of negates you putting Holyfield on there too as beating him twice was his best achievement during the period in question, unless you'd rate a decent effort in losing the 2nd Lewis fight more highly than what Hatton's done. I don't.

JCC, Whitaker and Vasquez didn't do much of note, if anything, post-97 either.

Zab Judah's accomplished what exactly? 1-1 with Spinks? Scraping past Chop Chop? Fighting 4 good rounds against Floyd? ****ting himself and throwing it away against Baldomir? Looking average against a novice Witter with 10 days notice of the fight? Damn.......almost forgot the chicken dance - I take it all back.

Virgil Hill has done nothing since 97 except lose to some good fighters and land a honey punch on Tiozzo. That's better than Hatton, how?

Corrales, Casamayor and Castillo obviously have the better competition but have lost a few along the way so I'd say they're on a par accomplishment wise.

I can't even bring myself to talk about Ottke. I'll just say that he should have lost several times, and against guys that Calzaghe gets zero credit for beating.

I'd put Hatton in the 25-30 range. I just can't think of 30 fighters in the last 10 years that can better 42-0, Ring Champion, Fighter of the Year, 4 belts in 2 divisions and a win over a top 3 p4p fighter.

30 Fighters Better than Hatton in the Last Decade, In no particular order:

Felix Trinidad
Bernard Hopkins
Oscar De La Hoya
Floyd Mayweather
Lennox Lewis
Evander Holyfield
Mike Tyson
Prince Naseem
Marco Antonio Barrera
Erik Morales
Manny Pacquiao
Shane Mosley
Ronald Wright
Ricardo Lopez
James Toney
Roy Jones
Virgil Hill
Steve Collins
Juan Manuel Marquez
Zab Judah
Joel Casamayor
JCC
Wilfredo Vazquez
Joe Calzaghe
Sven Ottke
Fernando Vargas
Kostya Tszyu
Diego Corrales
Pernell Whitaker
Jose Luis Castillo

In terms of accomplishments these guys are all ahead of him. (Not that he cant beat any of these, I think he will beat Castillo in their fight, but they have by far accomplished/achieved better than Hatton.)

[Dimebar]

Both Jones and Calzaghe have terrific resumes and (unlike Eubank) fought everyone there was to fight with the exceptions of tall southpaws like Nunn and Liles who weren't worth it and the German's who wouldn't leave Germany.

What's funny though is that Eubank fought a tall southpaw in Germany!

[jai mari078]

Again I feel compelled to ask..

Were you brutally **** ****d By a British Man at some point in your life.?????

I mean this is beyond an Obession now..

Before this it was the obsession with discrediting margarito and hating on him because he said margarito was ducking Williams, now that he is fighting him you don't hear that anymore so he has to find someone new to hate on while sucking off Floyd.

[me2007]

i dont think he's top 30 yet, he needs to beat JLC convincingly and then fight PBF.

[.Mik.]

I really do seem to get alot of male attention, its nice to be appriciated, no touching tho please.

The poll has changed, people are voting against Hatton in the top 30 at the moment, Where's Miksterious now? I wonder what he has to say.

Oh I'm not particularly bothered. You already admitted defeat, cant turn around now and say "Was only kidding". Duran should've done that to Leonard and then sucker punched him from behind.

Besides, I said early into this poll that I was skeptical about this one due to the fact that quite unusually $in hadnt made the voters viewable to the public. Which, since his attitude towards poll winning seems to be:

He's creating alts to vote in favor of Hatton. Seems like a hobby of his...

ie, there is no such thing as a fair poll result.

For the record, I've been busy teaching all day today. Some of us have better things to do than to make polls, manipulate polls and then discredit polls. It was interesting to me that your visits to your thread became increasingly rare...until the tide turned back in your direction again. Wonder what your excuse for disregarding it this time was going to be?

[Technical_Skill]

Oh I'm not particularly bothered. You already admitted defeat, cant turn around now and say "Was only kidding". Duran should've done that to Leonard and then sucker punched him from behind.

Besides, I said early into this poll that I was skeptical about this one due to the fact that quite unusually $in hadnt made the voters viewable to the public. Which, since his attitude towards poll winning seems to be:

Admitted defeat?, What is this? Mortal Kombat?

I simply said i wouldnt dispute the results of the poll,

now the polls show that people dont think hatton is top 30,

I still dont dispute the poll. lol.

And if you remember i did say as more of our American friends voted the poll would turn the other way, to be honest i thought it would have happened 2 days ago, but it happened last night.

Obviously there is no need for you to be too skeptical about this poll, unless you dispute the results of the poll?

lol.

[baya]

Your prejudice against Brits is blinding you, so there's no point in my trying to convince you of the facts. Those IBO statistics are computer-generated, not someone's opinion. Hatton's opposition hasn't been as bad as you believe.

okay you dumb ****, you're the only brit that i'm starting to dislike.

you're making yourself look incredibly ******. has nothing to do w/ ricky's pasty white skin, nor his geographical location - its his resume and his skills - can you move on now?