Comments Thread For: Hatton: I Would've Beaten Anyone Night I Fought Tszyu, Including Mayweather

[redrick]

hatton

thats a shame he thinks that all he was doing was holding and wrestling hiting a young tszyu would have crushed rickey hatton there is no qustion in my mind

[chirorickyp]

I see it similarly to you.

Hatton was blowing up between fights, getting really fat, drinking and doing coke. When he moved up to 147 to test himself against a good fighter (Collazo) he almost got KO'd, definitely got hurt and many people thought he got a gift decision. His lack of discipline between fights ruined him quickly. Oscar De La Hoya did the same thing in the last few years of his career. Really ****** choices from those guys!

Fatton got saved by the bell. Oscar was a great fighter, basically got beaten once convincingly because he was not a Middleweight prior to the Floyd fight. Floyd was always in shape always at his best and never had a bad night because it was all business and he partied smartly. He lived the life without dimiishing his skills or his career.

[JK1700]

I see it similarly to you.

Hatton was blowing up between fights, getting really fat, drinking and doing coke. When he moved up to 147 to test himself against a good fighter (Collazo) he almost got KO'd, definitely got hurt and many people thought he got a gift decision. His lack of discipline between fights ruined him quickly. Oscar De La Hoya did the same thing in the last few years of his career. Really ****** choices from those guys!

Exactly and you can see the negative impact this has had on them both. Hatton and De La Hoya look 50+ while Mayweather looks like he’s still in his mid 30s. His lifestyle choices have clearly caught up with him and this is just one of the reasons why he never would’ve beat Floyd. Hattons training camp was basically a weight loss camp where every week he was fighting to get down to 147, then looked like a skeleton by the weigh in and then put on loads of weight in a short period of time in a desperate attempt to recover. Meanwhile Floyd came into camp close to 147 and only had to focus on his training. Throughout his career this guy was a full time fighter who stayed in great shape and most boxers aren’t disciplined enough to do that. I’d go as far as to say 80-90% of them balloon up in weight in between fights.

[Corelone]

Floyd's going to be one of those, 35, 35, 35, 70.

[The plunger man]

He would and should be disqualified if he mauled Mayweather the same As he did with tszyu.
Hatton was always a one trick pony and was exposed pretty easy

[TMLT87]

Like Hatton, but on no day in his life has he ever been half the boxer Floyd was.

[archiemoore1]

Ricky "beer n blow" Hatton aka Ricky "the wrestler" Hatton says he would've beaten Mayweather with the right referee. Translation: "If I had a referee that let me use my hybrid boxing style, which was composed of wrestling, jiu jitsu, lacing, heeling, and rabbit punching, I could've pulled his arm out of the socket, dislocated his elbow in the clinch, follow up with a hard shot to the brain stem."

[daggum]

Ricky "beer n blow" Hatton aka Ricky "the wrestler" Hatton says he would've beaten Mayweather with the right referee. Translation: "If I had a referee that let me use my hybrid boxing style, which was composed of wrestling, jiu jitsu, lacing, heeling, and rabbit punching, I could've pulled his arm out of the socket, dislocated his elbow in the clinch, follow up with a hard shot to the brain stem."

he's not wrong though is he? ward stayed at home with his biased refs and judges and came out undefeated so if hatton was blessed with the same conditions he probably would have had a similar career.

[archiemoore1]

he's not wrong though is he? ward stayed at home with his biased refs and judges and came out undefeated so if hatton was blessed with the same conditions he probably would have had a similar career.

It's kinda blasphemous to equate ward with ricky in any way. Ward beat the great UK living legend Carl Crotch handily, with no referee help at all. To the point that old Crotch is still sore about it to this day.

[Bunch Pag]

Plenty of salt spilt in here...

Ricky did exceptionally well for his abilities.