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Originally posted by moy22487
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Gatti is nothing special anyhow. He's a C class fighter, as Mayweather so eloquantly put it. -
No such thing as Class C, Class A etc in boxing, it's just man against man and a matter of chance.Comment
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Your wrong.Originally posted by BlueBlazerComment
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its your own interpretation of it, some would say hes not in his class etc, others may say the top guys are class a contenders in top 5-8 class b below c then bums, **** me some fans even call champions bums!!!! some people say bum some say journeyman, some say fringe world class.
blue your wrong about it being a matter of chance, when its one on one you can decide the out come yourself with your various skills.Comment
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I agree that Hatton's had some tough guys in there with him, but the only ones I would consider worthy opponents are Tszyu, Phillips, Pendleton, and Tackie. However, the buzz around Cotto holds less value. His next match is with Branco, who Gatti sent to the canvas and beat easily, so if Hatton's had weak competition, what about Cotto?Comment
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You hit the nail right on the head. Stewart took a beating from Mitchell & he's not a KO puncher but went down a few times. Phillips was old & washed up at the time but managed to go 12 rounds & buzz Hatton at a certain point in the fight, & Oliviera was badly faded & not the same fighter that beat Harris.Originally posted by machotimeComment
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C'mon, lets stop these is Ricky Hatton for real threads. He has proved it, remember. Back in June Boxingscene was like 95% in favour of Tsyzu beating Hatton. Tsyzu said before the match he is was in the best conditon of his career and hatton was fighting the very best Tsyzu ever... Tsyzu said this and Hatton goes out and stops him!!! Wow, he shocks the world by taking every punch Tsyzu throws at him and forces Tsyzu to quit. Despite the haters, at the very least Hatton is number two in his division and because he beat Tsyzu, who everyone said would KO Hatton, he has proved himself for sure! Remember, all those BS members saying how Hatton was going to be opposed. Instead of creating these threads why not use the time to expose all those who claimed Tsyzu was gonna win and let them tell the story of their mistake!Comment
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Well remember in that match the referre didnt even try to seperate Hatton clinches that was like through the whole time of each round.A clear lowblow and 20,000 crowd of Football hooligans then you get yourself a champion.Originally posted by Kimmy
Well another ting Hatton was never tested in outside of Britian where there well be a "Neutral ground" and not in Manchester. If Hatton lost to Tzyu in that match it wont embrace himself but also the whole English boxing. So what you going to do? Make a deal or something.Comment
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Kostya said after the fight "Tonight, I admit that I lost to the better fighter."Originally posted by eazy_masComment
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Rick remarked ‘ … So it was my 2nd pro fight and I was handed the honour of fighting at the home of the many great champions, past and present, Madison Square Garden, New York City. Just to fight at the Mecca of boxing was a dream in itself, and to emulate many of my heroes of the past by fighting in such historic surroundings was a terrific feeling and one I’ll never forget.Originally posted by eazy_mas
Ricky continued ‘…Anyway I’d only just turned 19 years old, it was my 2nd pro fight and I was in the States all by myself as my trainer Billy Graham was contracted to work in the corner for Ensley Bingham for a fight in England that night. It all started to dawn on me the enormity of the occasion; I was in a foreign country without my trainer, on the under-card of the Naseem Hamed – Kevin Kelley show, fighting in the Garden.
Ricky went on ‘…My nerves weren’t calmed at the weigh-in for the fight either, I got off the scales and they tipped 10 stone 2, which was great I felt, perfect fighting shape. I then watched this huge guy, Robert Alverez step up to the scales, his weight was confirmed at 10 stone 8, a mountain of a man with his body tattooed from top to bottom, he had so many tattoo’s I didn’t know whether fight him or freakin read him!! .’
Ricky continued ‘…Anyway I called Billy straight away and said ‘Billy this guys huge, he’s come in at 10 stone 8, what am I gonna do? ‘ To which Billy replied ‘ I wouldn’t worry to much about that Rick, if he was any good he wouldn’t be fighting you!’
‘Typical words of wisdom from Billy there’ said Ricky.
For the record Ricky won the fight over 4 rounds by Unanimous Decision.
Audience – ‘Ricky this one is for you, who has been your toughest opponent to date?’
Ricky – ‘ Gibert Quiros, I fought him in my 20th Pro fight in Detroit. His nickname was the ‘Animal’, and after being in the ring with him for 3 minutes I knew exactly why. He was a very tall, gangly Costa Rican with a big punch, when he caught me in the first round is was the hardest I’ve ever been hit. He opened up a bad cut over my eyebrow and closed my eye. I couldn’t see at all and god knows how I kept slipping the punches and they just kept zipping past my head, his punches were coming from so many angles I thought I was freakin’ surrounded.’
Ricky continued ‘… After the 1st round had ended, I went back to my stool and the ref came over and said ‘ I’m giving you one more round Ricky because you’re the champion’. To be honest I thought I’d blown it, I knew then it was **** or Bust, so I went for it in the 2nd round and managed to knock him out with a left hook to the body. That was easily my toughest fight, and last I heard Quiros had retired, so thank **** for that.’
(In my opinion the shot that took out Quiros was the most perfectly placed punch I’ve ever seen Ricky throw to date. Devastating shot, the equaliser of all equaliser’s.)
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