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Ricky Hatton is not widely considered to be an elite fighter. He's someone who secured big fights with the likes of Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jnr based largely off of his fan support and the amount of revenue this otherwise football friendly crowd would generate. The majority (but not all) of Hatton fans are generally not true boxing fans but rather soccer supporters who decided to support Hatton because of his soccer affiliations. Hatton has recently showed interest in possibly fighting Cotto if he beats Manny and, given the amount of money he can generate, Hatton has the unique luxury of being able to fight almost anyone he chooses. Does Hatton deserve that luxury above other, more talented boxers? Based on his skill alone, did Hatton ever deserve to earn as much as he did from the sport of boxing?
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37Yes, he did deserve to earn that amount of money.67.57%25No, he didn't deserve to earn that amount of money.32.43%12 -
He is a ****ing cheat, should have been dq'd against Kostya and Urango for that clinching ****. Man someone needs to get that ref from the Marquez fight where the ref warned the fighter for excessive clinching then finally Dq'd his ass. -
To give Hatton some credit he deserves credit for his win over Paulie since he whooped on Paulie without clinching his opponent to death, but probably because why would he have to clinch against a pillow puncher like Paulie? He wouldn't because Paulie can't punch worth a damn.Comment
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hatton earned the right to fight floyd when he beat kosta...everyone thought zoo could hang with floyd..so when ricky dusted him he became larger than life sort of like pac right now. but we all know ricky was overrated and fought an old zoo and he never had a chance against floyd.
but I wanted to see him get brutalized by floyd for all his fans talking like he could carry floyds jock strap..same goes for manny his fans are rising high talking mad **** but when floyd gets his ass in the ring we will be having these same polls asking was manny worthy of even fighting floyd amd we all know manny couldn't carry floyds jock strap.
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No need to bash Hatton now that he's a shot fighter. Ricky deserved his earnings as much as any fighter.
And he was very talented, I suggest anyone who doesn't believe it: download and watch his fights from 2003 to 2005.Comment
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Bull****. He secured those fights 'largely off' on the basis of his record which was 43-0 and 45-1 on each occasion, although obviously the fact he is a big box office draw helped. Sure, he lost them, but the guy's record still stands at 45-2, the '2' both being the p4p #1 at the time. Of course he 'deserves' to have earned the money he did.Comment
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anyone could look talneted against the crap opposition he was fightingNo need to bash Hatton now that he's a shot fighter. Ricky deserved his earnings as much as any fighter.
And he was very talented, I suggest anyone who doesn't believe it: download and watch his fights from 2003 to 2005.
as soon as he stepped up he got put down easily.
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Hatton deserved every penny he ever made in the ring. His losses to 2 great fighters get magnified and his wins over many great and good fighters gets diminished. If Hatton wasn't an elite fighter his record would be similar to Gatti's, but Ricky never lost to somebody he was supposed to beat while beating many he wasn't. This tends to get overlooked by so many haters...Comment
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Hatton was dominant and then faded that fight because he was sick during camp and didn't have proper conditioning. Many people here were predicting Urango to KO Hatton so Ricky deserves some credit for winning convincingly while having an off night. And NOBODY thought Hatton could beat Tszyu so he deserves respect for winning ANY way he could!Comment
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