Grade a fighter day 12: What grade do you give Ricky Hatton?

[HitmanTommy]

Disclaimer: These threads will be MAILED in a envelope and sent to each individual fighter. The cutoff for these votes will be 24 hours. After that, the poll closes and the thread along with the poll results gets mailed off to the fighters address.

Once grades for 15 fighters have been completed, everything gets mailed out.


How the voting process works: Whichever grade has the most votes will be the fighters majority grade.

Day 1: Frank Bruno 21 votes: majority grade = B
Day 2: Deontay Wilder 30 votes: majority grade = C+
Day 3: Antonio Margarito 27 votes: majority grade = B
Day 4: Michael Spinks 28 votes: majority grade = A+
Day 5: Adrien Broner 33 votes: majority grade = B
Day 6: Shannon Briggs 41 votes: majority grade = C
Day 7: Paulie Malignaggi 38 votes: majority grade =C/C+
Day 8: Miguel Cotto 40 votes: majority grade = A
Day 9: Zab Judah 42 votes: majority grade =B
Day 10: Hasim Rahman 21 votes: majority grade =B
Day 11: Amir Khan 44 votes: majority grade = B-


Ranks

A+ Class
Michael Spinks
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A Class
Miguel Cotto
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A- Class

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B+ Class

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B Class
Antonio Margarito
Frank Bruno
Adrien Broner
Zab Judah
Hasim Rahman
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B- Class
Amir Khan

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C+ Class
Deontay Wilder
Paulie Malignaggi
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C Class
Shannon Briggs
Paulie Malignaggi
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C- Class

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D class

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F Class

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What grade do you give Ricky Hatton?

[RJJ-94-02=GOAT]

A+. Those Vegas nights were f***ing legendary.

[boliodogs]

As a world champion rated against other world champions I think he was better than average so I give him a B grade.

[786]

B+ Got away with too much when he was the home fighter, got a gift against Collazo and was saved against Lazcano but he has Tszyu and Castillo on his record even though both guys were past prime at that stage (although Tszyu was still at the top). Not much defense outside of mauling, hitting and holding but his offense was relentless. Almost everyone he faced (including Floyd) seemed shell-shocked in the early rounds at how much pressure they were being put under so early in the fight. Pac was the only one who really welcomed it and used it to his advantage. Wicked body puncher. He was seen as no.1 at 140 for a significant amount of time, won the IBF, WBA and WBC at the weight. Great career overall, I just think his limitations, gifts in fights he should've lost, ducking Witter, and blowing up in weight in between fights (which shortened his career) keeps him from being an A fighter.

[HitmanTommy]

B+ Got away with too much when he was the home fighter, got a gift against Collazo and was saved against Lazcano but he has Tszyu and Castillo on his record even though both guys were past prime at that stage (although Tszyu was still at the top). Not much defense outside of mauling, hitting and holding but his offense was relentless. Almost everyone he faced (including Floyd) seemed shell-shocked in the early rounds at how much pressure they were being put under so early in the fight. Pac was the only one who really welcomed it and used it to his advantage. Wicked body puncher. He was seen as no.1 at 140 for a significant amount of time, won the IBF, WBA and WBC at the weight. Great career overall, I just think his limitations, gifts in fights he should've lost, ducking Witter, and blowing up in weight in between fights (which shortened his career) keeps him from being an A fighter.

nice write-up.

[Earl-Hickey]

B-

I'm grading as a C being a passable world champion, and I have him two grades above that but no more.

He was a "good" world champion but nothing exceptional other than his fanbase.

[MONGOOSE66]

C- ..............................

[LeOoze]

A solid C-. His best win is an old Tszyu who I don't really rate that highly. He beat Paulie back when Paulie was still pretty good, so that's a plus. I thought he lost against Collazo. Castillo was way past it when he fought Hatton. I didn't like the way Hatton fought.

[HitmanTommy]

Let's keep it going.

[PRINCEKOOL]

B+.

Great fighter.