had a bit too much to drink tonight nuthugger?
Bring back Hatton on the P4P list
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If it was anyone other than Hatton they may have let him. But Ricky probably holds the world title for the number of times the IBF belt has been vacated...Malignaggi never lost his IBF title in the Ring, he was stripped because of the inflexability and ******ity of the IBF. They were not willing to let him fight the linear light welterweight champion Hatton first, and then fight his mandatory. He should have been granted an exception by the IBF.Comment
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In those situations, the IBF was inflexible with Ricky. I remember the week after he defeated Urango, they stripped him for not immediately fighting N'Dou and deciding to go for the bigger name Castillo instead. They should have let him have a voluntary defense against Castillo, and then decide whether to defend the IBF title or not.Comment
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Well he did continue to slip in the rankings after the Tszyu win, which put him at #4 if I remember down to #8 when he faced Mayweather, so he didn't have far to go. The shoelace incident in the Lazcano fight did seem to save him from a KO loss, but he was pretty dominant during the rest of the fight. I forgot that Paulie gave up his title, I just figured he was a big enough win to push him back in, especially when Hopkins was able to stay at #5 after losing 3 of 5 leading up to the Pavlik fight.Be fair, he didn't get dropped from the list until his fragile looking display over Lazcano. You could see in that performance that one of the facets that gave him a high ranking, his punch resistance, seemed to be lacking.
Though it did seem that the Ring editorial board were looking for an excuse to get him off the ranking following the poor showing against Collazo...Comment
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