Is Hatton elite or a B class fighter

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Ricky Hatton is currently suing NBC, claiming Law and Order are
trademarked names for his left and right body shots.

[Dynamite Kid]

The only thing elite about Hatton is his holding.

I strongly believe that Hatton wouldn't have beaten Tszyu if they had a proper referee doing the fight, infact id go as far to say Tszyu would of knocked him out.

They took away Hatton's hug against Mayweather and he was neutralized completely. Talk about one dimensional.

[Roger Mellie]

more **** about calzaghe.brit bashing moron.calzaghe is elite.but in a prime vs prime nobhead contest..no doubt you are almost p4p no1..in fact your a number 2,right behind daggum

[Mr. Philadel]

Hatton is a C class fighter or B minus at the most......he's been promoted very very very very well.....probably better than any fighter in my life time. He's an very bad fighter who's been sold to the British public as a very good fighter! the win over Tszyu was and is his ONLY highlight!

[Roger Mellie]

The only thing elite about Hatton is his holding.

I strongly believe that Hatton wouldn't have beaten Tszyu if they had a proper referee doing the fight, infact id go as far to say Tszyu would of knocked him out.

They took away Hatton's hug against Mayweather and he was neutralized completely. Talk about one dimensional.

bollocks! by that token you could argue that if ricky had a proper referee against mayweather the outcome of that would have been different as cortez was utter ****e that evening.

[Dynamite Kid]

bollocks! by that token you could argue that if ricky had a proper referee against mayweather the outcome of that would have been different as cortez was utter ****e that evening.

Hatton had a proper referee thats why he was ineffective.

Boxing is not about holding. If Cortez was not going to let him hold then why keep initiating it? ill tell you why, because he can only fight one way.

He got KTFO, because they took away his ability to man handle his oponent and what he had left was not good enough against even a B class fighter Collazo, let alone the best fighter on the planet at the time.

[The C.E.O.]

Hatton is a C class fighter or B minus at the most......he's been promoted very very very very well.....probably better than any fighter in my life time. He's an very bad fighter who's been sold to the British public as a very good fighter! the win over Tszyu was and is his ONLY highlight!

and that's that.

I'm giving YOU some of that green stuff...

Hatton IS the most underskilled/overrated/overpaid fighter of our times...

[Chase8400]

The only thing elite about Hatton is his holding.

I strongly believe that Hatton wouldn't have beaten Tszyu if they had a proper referee doing the fight, infact id go as far to say Tszyu would of knocked him out.

They took away Hatton's hug against Mayweather and he was neutralized completely. Talk about one dimensional.

See now man, your hating is finally shining through. Hatton may have a style that ends in holds against dangerous fighters at the end of exchanges but that too is a part of boxing and is a skill. See Lennox Lewis for the best recent example of when to hold to gain leverage in a fight. If you want to get back to it, Mayweather did more holding, elbowing and bending over than Hatton has ever done in that one fight and was allowed to with little warning. Remember Hatton turning his back to Floyd and showing him his ass like Floyd did all night in the mid rounds as to indicate that he could avoid punishment too if he turned his back on his opponent and make all his punches illegal?
Going back to the Tszyu fight, you have no footing at all. Hatton made a relentless attacker/practitioner like Kostya back up all night and fight on the inside when that's not his game. That's skill , not an illusion. Kostya was getting off shots in a hurry and looked great in that fight. It's just that Hatton would not be denied and made the fight hell to live with, so Tszyu retired on his stool. As far as being able to hold, how can you say that when the fight never went into a lul? I understand if the ref let Hatton hold all night without doing anything, but that was not what happened. He would come in with a combination and hold Kostya when in close and release to punch more. That was timing and skill, not just trying to not get hit too much. I see that you will see it as you like but I figured you may want to take an objective look at Hatton's style and reply with more knowledge rather than saying things on a whim that you don't know anything about.

[MACAQUEINBLACK]

The only thing elite about Hatton is his holding.

I strongly believe that Hatton wouldn't have beaten Tszyu if they had a proper referee doing the fight, infact id go as far to say Tszyu would of knocked him out.

They took away Hatton's hug against Mayweather and he was neutralized completely. Talk about one dimensional.

This is why I class Ricky no higher than a strong B.

His tenacity and fighting heart shouldn't go unmentioned, he's mixed it with and beaten some excellent comp and he isn't unskilled --- but his efforts at boxing's top level have been assisted by some serious rule-bending and forgiving officiating.

[Roger Mellie]

Hatton had a proper referee thats why he was ineffective.

Boxing is not about holding. If Cortez was not going to let him hold then why keep initiating it? ill tell you why, because he can only fight one way.

He got KTFO, because they took away his ability to man handle his oponent and what he had left was not good enough against even a B class fighter Collazo, let alone the best fighter on the planet at the time.

cortez proper????????????? post of the year numb nuts lmfao! you may not be aware of this,but turning your back on your opponent is against the rules of boxing,mayweather also initiated a lot of the holding as well.what is with all this disrespect of british fighters? what we should know our place? 80% of the american posters on here seem to be dumb racist insular fcukwits that cant see beyond there own shores,and end up giving the other twenty percent a bad name.talk sense,not bollocks.the proof is in the fact that its obvious that this thread was not started as a sensible debate,but a badly disguised forum for slagging off another great british fighter,someone you aint fit to lick the sweat offs jockstrap.