Reflections on Ricky Hatton...

[Easy-E]

As far as the Collazo fight is concerned, i think that that fight is great reason for Ricky Hatton to stay the hell away from Zab Judah.

Other than that, it showed Hatton has trouble with slick boxers, which is you knew anything about boxing, you probably would have assumed anyways.

[Easy-E]

As far as the Collazo fight is concerned, i think that that fight is great reason for Ricky Hatton to stay the hell away from Zab Judah.

Other than that, it showed Hatton has trouble with slick boxers, which is you knew anything about boxing, you probably would have assumed anyways.

Oh, and to clarify, "having trouble" doesnt mean he cant win.

[Oasis_Lad]

As far as the Collazo fight is concerned, i think that that fight is great reason for Ricky Hatton to stay the hell away from Zab Judah.

Other than that, it showed Hatton has trouble with slick boxers, which is you knew anything about boxing, you probably would have assumed anyways.

i disagree

collazo was the last choice hatton did'nt wanna let the american fans down by saying " there will be no fight"

hatton if given time to prepare will come out on top form
hatton is a smart fighter he proved it by completely neutralising
tszyu

he knows the game inside out

i believe if given the right amount of time to prepare he would destroy collazzo and judah more so

[Guest]

As far as the Collazo fight is concerned, i think that that fight is great reason for Ricky Hatton to stay the hell away from Zab Judah.

Other than that, it showed Hatton has trouble with slick boxers, which is you knew anything about boxing, you probably would have assumed anyways.

While I might say "not necessarily" to your second paragraph, your first shows that you've actually thought about it more than 90% of the people on here.

[Left2body]

I wouldn't say that the criticism of Hatton is warranted. However you have to understand that the skepticisim of him is indeed warranted, by Americans and non-European Fans.

I even saw Hatton once before his Tzu fight versus Pendelton and since Tzu I have seen about 10-12 of his fights (full versions not highlight)and I'm sure I'm a HUGE minority in the Americas. You have to look at it through our point of view, he pretty much came on to the international seen against Tzu where for good or bad he displayed a rough house style on an aging fight (American fans took notice and wonder is this guy for real or did Tzu just get to old).

We are then given this hype about him and we are curious to see this fighter who is described as exciting and relentless. We next see him in a battle against someone who we all saw get totally dominated by Miguel Cotto (American fans again say hey he is exciting but that was more of a battle than we thought it would be, but he finished him with an exciting KO).

We are still then force fed the promotions of Hatton by HBO which wants to pump up there newly signed fighter. Ok thats fair enough we see it with our fighters all the time and we have learned to take it with a grain of salt. What is however is the talk of his name with PBF and how PBF is ducking him and is scared of him. We see him fight what is seemingly a tune up fight from a relatively harmless soft punching "Welterweight Champion". We see him struggle tremendously and get dominated in some rounds and rocked in the last (American fans think while he is good I'm not sure if he is all he is cracked up to be and wonder is PBF really ducking this guy ).

So once again you have to understand our skepticisim of Ricky Hatton.

[Smokin']

anybody that has seen more then 3 Hatton fights knows that Hatton is extremely skilled and can fight with the best and box with the best.

As for Left2Body saying Cotto 'dominated' Maussa...that is simply not true. Cotto was not close to a knockout the fight was stopped on cuts and Maussa was giving him some trouble & remember Maussa had knocked out Viv Harris who many thought could beat Floyd. Maussa definitely was not a pushover and he was actually a very accomplished amateur (over 300 fights).

Hatton boxed wonderous a couple years ago but after watching his past 3 I can't see him hanging with Floyd anymore. Btw, he was a fat mess against Collazo, his body was not nearly as defined as he usually is and he obviously took him for granted, meanwhile Collazo had the best camp of his life.

[iron mike tyson]

anybody that has seen more then 3 Hatton fights knows that Hatton is extremely skilled and can fight with the best and box with the best.

As for Left2Body saying Cotto 'dominated' Maussa...that is simply not true. Cotto was not close to a knockout the fight was stopped on cuts and Maussa was giving him some trouble & remember Maussa had knocked out Viv Harris who many thought could beat Floyd. Maussa definitely was not a pushover and he was actually a very accomplished amateur (over 300 fights).

Hatton boxed wonderous a couple years ago but after watching his past 3 I can't see him hanging with Floyd anymore. Btw, he was a fat mess against Collazo, his body was not nearly as defined as he usually is and he obviously took him for granted, meanwhile Collazo had the best camp of his life.

i agrea that is one of the worst states i saw hatton enter the ring in ever.
but you gotta consider up until 7 weeks befoer fight time he was fighting at 10 stone against lazcano. then lazcano got injured so with 7 weeks left he had to arrange hes camp to suit the southpaw stance and accomadate the extra 7 ilbs and he certainly got it wrong.
remember 7 weeks is a short space of time when he normally takes a 3 month fight camp

[Smokin']

Remember boys & girls, Hatton's best weight is probably 140 and for someone who is 5'6 and doesn't have reach he must fight there. When he moved up he was at a significant height disadvantage to even the smaller welterweights and was a fat mess (158 on fight night!!). Hatton was 145 for Zoo, so if Hatton had not underestimated Collazo he probably would of been weighing around 150 and you wouldn't of seen shotty footwork and poor balance. I remember reading somewhere that he was not on a strict diet regimen (like he was for most of his other fights) and was eating cake and **** like that during his camp because he knew he could dehydrate himself down. It's painfully obvious he underestimated Collazo...

[JuicyJuice]

Hatton is the ****. I've seen him in the gym, he's looked ****ing amazing in sparring before, really blew me away with his skills.

You've NEVER seen the best of Hatton in professional boxing, but Billy Graham insists that one day you will..

[Left2body]

All I'm saying is that you have to understand why main stream non-European fans are skeptical of him. But I agree with you guys that a huge portion of the criticisim is unwarranted and just hate.