hatton not fighting at 147 a cop out?

[C'MONMANG']

147 is where the best money and competition is at. obviously money isnt an issue because its kind of hard to blow 30+ million playing darts and drinking beer. but a lot of guys, including floyd, fight beyond their natural weight for the bigger payday and increased competition. personally i just think hatton cant hack it. tell me a guy that walks around at 170 pounds cant fight at 147. gimme a break, he just knows he doesnt have the talent to fight slightly above his natural fighting weight. whats your opinion?

Is Floyd not fighting any top welters and just "vacationing" after fighting a JW a cop out? personally i just think Floyd cant hack it.

[BmoreBrawler]

obviously, but that is not realistic for hattons abilities, i think he loses most of those fights.. and if floyd wins another fight against the top challenger before he retires, preferably agaisnt a true welter, nobody is touching him in this era. period.

not an easy schedule, but the question was "who does he have to beat?"

[boxing_pundit85]

I'd say if he unifies or comes close to it at 140 and has wins over Pacquiao, J. Diaz, D. Diaz, Witter, Malinaggi, and Marquez he would blow floyd out of the water. Just Marquez, J.Diaz, and Pacman put him slightly ahead IMO.

Remember, everyone considers Duran to be better than Leonard even though he lost 2 of 3 to him.

more hatton haterssss...n e wayyy

shutup f aggot, you add nothing to the discussion, and how i am hating? all im saying that if hatton was more physically gifted hed fight at 147. he doesnt have the skills to do it and thats fine, hes till good, but he needs to fight at a weight where he can bully people to compensate for his lack of reach.

[boxing_pundit85]

not an easy schedule, but the question was "who does he have to beat?"

yeah, my bad u right, so basically its not possible.

[Benny Leonard]

*** all these dissin of mayweather. ppl sayin hatton is a god at 140. get ***ed. if mayweather went down to 140 he would ko every1 in it. if he did that n unify the belts, every1 will stay that his fightin smaller guys, even though the haters know flody is a natural jww, or a light weight. ***en haters man

Yes, but if he wants to be in the elite, and I am talking about the Gods of boxing, it's best to fight way above your natural weight. The only downside is that when you lose, people tend to forget what your true size is and only see the "L", which sucks.

[BmoreBrawler]

shutup f aggot, you add nothing to the discussion, and how i am hating? all im saying that if hatton was more physically gifted hed fight at 147. he doesnt have the skills to do it and thats fine, hes till good, but he needs to fight at a weight where he can bully people to compensate for his lack of reach.

How many legit fighters has mayweather fought who have longer reach than him?

[Benny Leonard]

Is Floyd not fighting any top welters and just "vacationing" after fighting a JW a cop out? personally i just think Floyd cant hack it.

It depends. Floyd, at 30, and years of wear and tear through training and fighting, can do what he wants, retire now if he likes. But, if he comes back and says he wants to fight, he has to fight a title holder at 147, Cotto, Williams, Cintron...unless of course he goes after Forrest at 154.

All he really needs is one, although Cintron at the bottom.

I hope the up to two years for a layoff is a ploy to get money because if he is serious about a two year absence, it favors to hurt him physically and mentally as a fighter when he does come back. Inactivity is not a good thing for a fighter.


He needed to fight Hatton or there would still be massive hate his way.


Cotto and the boys need to be quite about Floyd and just fight each other until Floyd makes up his mind.

[DLT]

If so then Floyd fighting 140 lber Hatton was a cop out.

Just because he gets fat between fights doesn't mean anything. Have you seen his face between fights? There's a couple pounds of fat right there.

Hatton will come back to 147 if Floyd fights Williams or Cotto, how's that?

dude are you serious? You do realize that Floyd has fought in 5 divisions dont yout? You make it sound like he's bigger then Hatton. He came from 2 weight classes under Hatton and has fought in 2 weight classes over where you insist that Hatton must stay

[Benny Leonard]

I'd say if he unifies or comes close to it at 140 and has wins over Pacquiao, J. Diaz, D. Diaz, Witter, Malinaggi, and Marquez he would blow floyd out of the water. Just Marquez, J.Diaz, and Pacman put him slightly ahead IMO.

Remember, everyone considers Duran to be better than Leonard even though he lost 2 of 3 to him.

He wouldn't be ahead of Floyd for two reasons, one, Floyd would beat everybody you just mentioned and two, he was knocked out by Floyd.

[BmoreBrawler]

He wouldn't be ahead of Floyd for two reasons, one, Floyd would beat everybody you just mentioned and two, he was knocked out by Floyd.

good think boxers arent rated all time for what they WOULD do, but for what they DID. I'm talking about what Hatton did.