Hatton avoided the best fighters @ 140 for years. Namely: Cotto and Zab-when they were both @ 140; Torres, Holt, Witter, Vivian Harris, Brussels, Corley, Sharmba, and soon-to-be Bradley.
Hand-picked fighters his entire career. Then he moves up to 147 and gets brutalized by a light-punching Collazo. So he moves back down and fights a very green and unskilled guy in Urango. Next, he feasts on the washed-up Castillo. The Mayweather fight was a no-lose situation. If he beats him he just beat the P4P King. If he loses, well, he lost to the best fighter on the planet outside of his "natural" weight class.
Basically, what I'm saying to all of you is that Hatton chose the path of least resistance. He never seemed too interested in facing the best guys @ 140 once he fouled his way to a win over Kostya. Hatton was all about picking up meaningless trinkets, nothing more.
hatton chose the ibf route becuase believe it or not the reigning ibf champ was the lineal champion on the division namely kostya tszyu
you need to do some research before you shout your mouth because he had fights with vivian harris and sharmba mitchell on the table only for both to pull out or price themselves out. wat did bruselles ever do apart from get beat by mayweather?? when hatton was in a position to fight corley wat was corley doing apart from settling in the class off losing fighter. zab judah?? dint he get licked in 2 by kostya tszyu. he could of took an even easier route by fighting kelson pinto for the vacant wbo route (wich warren wanted him 2 do) but turned it down to fight the lineal and p4p ranked champion
your post is so flawed
the only person you can hold a claim to is witter but witter was always 2 steps behind hatton. junior was fighting nobodies for british and european trinkets when hatton was fighting elimnators for world titles
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