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I hate to say it but Ricky Hatton is so grossly overhyped its sickening and tiring hearing the same mantra "there is only one Ricky Hatton". Ricky Hatton is famous for his two losses, Mayweather totally outclassed him and stopped him, Mayweathers first stoppage in years. Pacquaio totally demolished Hatton with a single punch.
Hatton spent most of his career fighting and defending a WBU title, Which is not a world title worth its salt given they have no mandatory challengers whatsoever. Hatton milked the WBU gravy train in a packed out MEN arena in Manchester infront of underpriveleged and under-education white working class english people. His biggest wins were against Malignaggi, Collazo and Urango. He was a good 140lber a weak 147lber. Tszyu was shot to bits dont even mention that, Also Hatton threw every foul in the book, low blows, rabbit punches, elbows etc.
I know its a national past-time in the UK to build and hype fighters only to watch them get massacred like Kevin Mitchell. Now I know someone is going to start talking about Khan, But this thread is about Hatton, Hattons fans are very different from Khan fans, Hatton fans tend to be poor unemployed/working class, beering drinking, football fans with low educational achievement, high birth and crime rates. Khan fans are more classty and financially more successful and even the white people that support him are your urban socialites ie the type that wear suits to work not uniforms with name badge like Hatton fans.
Yet some people are talking about Hatton getting into the IBHOF, I know the bar for the IBHOF is very low. But letting Hatton into the IBHOF would be a travesty.
Hatton spent most of his career fighting and defending a WBU title, Which is not a world title worth its salt given they have no mandatory challengers whatsoever. Hatton milked the WBU gravy train in a packed out MEN arena in Manchester infront of underpriveleged and under-education white working class english people. His biggest wins were against Malignaggi, Collazo and Urango. He was a good 140lber a weak 147lber. Tszyu was shot to bits dont even mention that, Also Hatton threw every foul in the book, low blows, rabbit punches, elbows etc.
I know its a national past-time in the UK to build and hype fighters only to watch them get massacred like Kevin Mitchell. Now I know someone is going to start talking about Khan, But this thread is about Hatton, Hattons fans are very different from Khan fans, Hatton fans tend to be poor unemployed/working class, beering drinking, football fans with low educational achievement, high birth and crime rates. Khan fans are more classty and financially more successful and even the white people that support him are your urban socialites ie the type that wear suits to work not uniforms with name badge like Hatton fans.
Yet some people are talking about Hatton getting into the IBHOF, I know the bar for the IBHOF is very low. But letting Hatton into the IBHOF would be a travesty.
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