Hatton-Kostya : Who has fought better opposition?

[Mr. Ryan]

Boxing is a show and tell sport, and until Hatton shows, I don't respect him. I have nothing against England or nothing, but I don't have any respect for any of the current English fighters. Until they step off of Sky Sports and onto HBO, they could knock out their mothers for all I care. Kostya Tszyu is a much better fighter than Hatton, Hatton is garbage.

[elveiel]

Boxing is a show and tell sport, and until Hatton shows, I don't respect him. I have nothing against England or nothing, but I don't have any respect for any of the current English fighters. Until they step off of Sky Sports and onto HBO, they could knock out their mothers for all I care. Kostya Tszyu is a much better fighter than Hatton, Hatton is garbage.

How can he be garbage if he hasnt had chance to show you yet? he couldnt have beaten his other opponents any better.

[Dro MACHATERO]

yeah but a bunch of his opponents have put a whupping on him. He has been bloodied up and knocked down but dudes ive never heard of before or after but though he gets the jon done in the end many of those cats would get there azz handed to them by real topo fighters like Zoo, Cotto, May and Gatti

is the kid overhyped? I think so...

[Slipx]

I wouldn't be a bit suprised if Kostya stops him 30 seconds into round one.

[Mr. Ryan]

How can he be garbage if he hasnt had chance to show you yet? he couldnt have beaten his other opponents any better.

The fact that hes having life and death fights with guys who I've never heard of.

[elveiel]

yeah but a bunch of his opponents have put a whupping on him. He has been bloodied up and knocked down but dudes ive never heard of before or after but though he gets the jon done in the end many of those cats would get there azz handed to them by real topo fighters like Zoo, Cotto, May and Gatti

is the kid overhyped? I think so...

Just because you have never heard of some of Hatton opponents doesnt mean their no good.

Hatton was KD'd against Magee(very good fighter) and thats the only time i remember him lossing a round! even then he was winning the round until the flash knock down. Hattons never been in trouble and the cuts are a skin problem, the career is perfect up til now.

Hatton just needs a step up in class, which is exactly the same as all the other top 140lb fighters(except Tszyu).

There's no way Cotto, Mayweather or Gatti could finish Hatton opponents better than him, only Tszyu has the power to do that.

[elveiel]

The fact that hes having life and death fights with guys who I've never heard of.

Just give him a fair chance, we will all have the right to judge him after the Tszyu fight.

[elveiel]

I wouldn't be a bit suprised if Kostya stops him 30 seconds into round one.

I wouldnt be suprised if Tszyu stopped Vitali in 30secs

[barryboy]

barryboy, accept da fact that your boy based his career off of beating up lower calibr fighters. you are acting like the IC WBO belt is worthless.

Hope your kidding on the last part and as far as Hatton's opponents go, when did you see me say different to what you've said? I agree to an extent, all I discussed was those few early guys, didn't say anything about the rest of his career so don't jump the gun Magee, Phillips, Tackie & Oliveira are all solid fighters but Phillips aside a level below Tszyu so it's all guess work as to how he'll handle the jump in class, but imo he'll do pretty good against Tszyu who needs room to get that big right hand in so if Hatton sticks to the inside and tries to negate that it will be interesting to see what happens then.

[oldgringo]

Just because you have never heard of some of Hatton opponents doesnt mean their no good.

Hatton was KD'd against Magee(very good fighter) and thats the only time i remember him lossing a round! even then he was winning the round until the flash knock down. Hattons never been in trouble and the cuts are a skin problem, the career is perfect up til now.

Hatton just needs a step up in class, which is exactly the same as all the other top 140lb fighters(except Tszyu).

There's no way Cotto, Mayweather or Gatti could finish Hatton opponents better than him, only Tszyu has the power to do that.

I agree about HAtton being impressive against the opponents that he faced, but I don't agree that Mayweather and Cotto wouldn't **** on those same opponents like Hatton did. I'd actually go so far as to say they would beat them in more impressive fashion.