Hatton: "I'm Alot More Clever Than People Think"

[Vladimir303]

Hatton was in front of Urango and hitting him with body shots as JU fought back. In round 6 or 7, JU hurt RH to the body with some return fire, and it became the unwatchable clutchfest thereafter.

Are you using 5 rounds of the Urango fight as Hatton's career highlight? Please advise.

repeat: Juan Urango.

And also one of the guys you mentioned above (Malinaggi) considers Floyd as the best fighter to ever put on a pair of gloves and thinks that he would have beaten Sugar Ray Leonard. So he has that guy beaten as well.

[Mozza]

To answer your question, Floyd had FIVE fights with four of those guys in their primes:

Corrales, Castillo 2x, Corley and Judah.

Thanks for playing.

Oh please, if you are going to have the audacity to write off the fights with Tszyu and Castillo for not being in their prime then don't include Corley and Judah on your list for Floyd.

[Wiley Hyena]

Oh please, if you are going to have the audacity to write off the fights with Tszyu and Castillo for not being in their prime then don't include Corley and Judah on your list for Floyd.

Mozza, Dios has been beaten around on this subject so much that he's much the journeyman now. Just going around looking for fights, but no real hope of winning, except when against uninformed posters.

[Wiley Hyena]

Floyd just came through the 140 division. He didn't make a living there like hatton. Big difference.

Well you're absolutely right about that! Floyd did "come thru" that division, by fighting bums. Meanwhile, Hatton had the balls to take on one of the greatest 140s of modern times, one certain Kostya Tszyu...and he won. This victory by itself compares to any single fight Floyd has had in his career.

[big paulie]

Oh please, if you are going to have the audacity to write off the fights with Tszyu and Castillo for not being in their prime then don't include Corley and Judah on your list for Floyd.

not only was castillo past his prime, he was barely breathing. corley and judah were far more active than tszyu and undoubtedly dangerous fights.

[Mozza]

not only was castillo past his prime, he was barely breathing. corley and judah were far more active than tszyu and undoubtedly dangerous fights.

You obviously have mental difficulties. It wouldn't be fair to argue with someone like you.

[-Antonio-]

not only was castillo past his prime, he was barely breathing. corley and judah were far more active than tszyu and undoubtedly dangerous fights.

He beat Corrales in the rematch the year before. You mean to tell me a year after he put up a good performance, he's all of a sudden shot? Thats not true at all. Hatton was just the better fighter, while Castillo was past his prime, not shot. There's a difference.

Scratch that, it was more like 18 months before, but still...

[Vladimir303]

Well you're absolutely right about that! Floyd did "come thru" that division, by fighting bums. Meanwhile, Hatton had the balls to take on one of the greatest 140s of modern times, one certain Kostya Tszyu...and he won. This victory by itself compares to any single fight Floyd has had in his career.

That is pure nonsense. You need to look up the word BUM again and thanks for the spelling correction to make yourself look better once in a while. This is my third language after all and I tend to mess up here and there.

Corley = not a bum
Bruseles = WBC top ranked contender, blame the WBC
Gatti = not a bum...Hatton wanted to fight him as well if you forget for a major payday but he lost to Baldomir.

[big paulie]

Oh please, if you are going to have the audacity to write off the fights with Tszyu and Castillo for not being in their prime then don't include Corley and Judah on your list for Floyd.

Well you're absolutely right about that! Floyd did "come thru" that division, by fighting bums. Meanwhile, Hatton had the balls to take on one of the greatest 140s of modern times, one certain Kostya Tszyu...and he won. This victory by itself compares to any single fight Floyd has had in his career.

thats absolute bull****, one of the greatest 140s of modern times would never have got smashed up by former crack head vince phillips. no offence vince

[Wiley Hyena]

He beat Corrales in the rematch the year before. You mean to tell me a year after he put up a good performance, he's all of a sudden shot? Thats not true at all. Hatton was just the better fighter, while Castillo was past his prime, not shot. There's a difference.

It just so happens that Tszyu was the recognized champion, hadn't lost in 8 years, had just six months earlier destroyed Sharmba in 3, and was top ten p4p at the time of the fight. Nothing else needs be said about Tszyu, except to say that maybe he "grew old" during the fight. That's a possibility, but that in no way detracts from Hatton's accomplishment...it enhances it.