The Most Overrated Fighters in Boxing: Ricky Hatton & Antonio Margarito

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Originally Posted by Taeth

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Originally Posted by Danny_G

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Originally Posted by Lyle

Hatton at least beat THE MAN at his weight class....Floyd didn't fight Kostya!!!

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Exactly. Hatton beat Kostya Tszyu.

Kostya Tszyu would have dropped PBF like a bad habit.

I give Hatton mad props for making Kostya Tszyu say no mas.

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... PBF would have been far too fast for old Tszyu and after seeing some of Tszyu's career PBF would have been far too good for Tszyu at any point in either's career... The only time I Could see Kostya beating Mayweather would be in the amateurs. However I do think that Hatton is a good figher, but not the kind of fighter who would be successful while changing weight classes because his size and strength determine his effectiveness. Margaritto however has foughten nobody and is much like Lacy except he wants to fight a far more talented person than even Calzaghe in PBF and it would be ugly.

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CC for the most sensible post ive read on here for a while. I do disagree with the beginning bit though, i feel tszyu would have caught PBF at some point and it would have been interesting to see how he took it and how he reacted.

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Originally Posted by Violent Demise

I would replace Hatton with Calzaghe as more overrated.

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You're a hater though... Calzaghe may be over rated by some... the people putting him in the same breath as a Prime RJJ and Hopkins etc... but more overrated than Hatton?

Come on... not by a long shot.

i think the part in the article that says somethin like ' to beat mayweather you will have to be able to hurt him and take some punishment, and ricky cant blah blah blah'. i think thats bull shit, if mayweather beats hatton its gonna be either by decision or perhaps by a cut cos hatton can clash heads when he ruches in. but i've said it before many times that hatton has got a good chin and he's shown it time and time again, floyd hasnt got the firepower to stop ricky and ricky can take punishment. i just thought that point in the article needed addressing.

if anything hatton is underrated hes beat good fighters and because he struggled against collazo but he still won people are underrating him i personally feel anyway i think he done well considering that was his first time at that weight and collazo is good fighter aswell i was impressed with him i think hed give any of the top boys trouble