Is it Fair to Call Katsidis This Generations Gatti?

[Tiozzo]

Sorta, but Katsidis is better than Gatti was. Not the same kind of epic heart - a big one, for sure, but Gatti is a once in a lifetime kinda guy - but more skills and power. He's actually a damn good inside fighter. He's just no Dinamita.

hell no

Gatti was a better boxer, he had more heart, he had a better chin

Gatti >>>>> Katsidis
in all departments

[nomadman]

every time I see him fight I he reminds me of gatti,plus they look alike too.

You saying white dudes with massive amounts of scar tissue look alike?

[AKATheMack]

Good thread I consider kats special because he's a win some/lose some type of fighter...he wins impressively and loses with no shame and is still not counted out the picture...Kats would ruin soto!

good way of putting it, it's very hard to dislike the guy.

we need a Kats appreciation thread

that guy is a WARRIOR, in and out the ring

Boxing isnt all about wins and losses. I enjoy a fighter who may be limited physically but isnt afraid to bite down and just fight his heart out. I enjoy the drama of boxing and you dont get that a lot of times with the match making that goes on nowadays.

[Canelo Phresh]

GTFOH. There's nothin' that Katsidis does better than Gatti. Gatti faced better competition from much bigger punchers.

Outside of being able to take a punch and a big left hook(which can't even be labeled as an educated punch)

The right hook that he throws is all wrong. I'm surprised he hasn't dislocated that r. shoulder.

i was thinking the same thing watching that fight. it almost looked like he was throwing elbows.

[Bastian Loc]

Katsidis is a much better fighter imo.

But I get what you're saying. I just hope HBO keeps hooking him up good dates.

[MACAQUEINBLACK]

...and i hated gatti. I also detest kats.

Don't get me wrong, I always understood the Hatton hatred. The phoney in Hatton is obvious.



I can understand not being as enchanted as others are by Gatti and Katsidis' styles, but I never got what it was you actively hated about those guys, man.

Especially Mike, moreso than Gatti (a guy I appreciated personally and was saddened to see go out like he did, but whom I could imagine someone maybe having reasons for disliking).

This is going to sound trite to you, but Mike is just all heart. I don't see anything that isn't genuine about him.

[MACAQUEINBLACK]

And to the OP,

it's fairer to call Mike Katsidis this generation's and every generation's Mike Katsidis.

[MARKBNLV]

As a Gatti fan,i have to give it to Kats he is just the better fighter of the two.

[AKATheMack]

And to the OP,

it's fairer to call Mike Katsidis this generation's and every generation's Mike Katsidis.

Maybe I could have said is Katsidis this generations Blood and Guts Warrior? Invoke the memory of Gatti without a direct comparison.

[The Surgeon]

i was thinking the same thing watching that fight. it almost looked like he was throwing elbows.

I love the way he throws, really turns over the right hand