Interesting topic..Hatton/Calzaghe
Frankly.. There is no arguement to say Hatton hasnt got a claim to P4P stature if Calzaghe is considered In the P4P Rankings..
Both Undefeated..Both 40 odd/+ fights...
But yes Calzaghe is always under scrutiny for his level of opposition.. Hatton is at times.. More so for his performances against Fair competition imo
But if calzaghe is considered P4P ..Then hatton should be higher.. Because theres no arguement to say that joe has faced better opposition.. The only thing that could be brought up is Joe's long title reign..
And that to me is a con not a pro.. Joe still doesnt match up to hatton even whilst remaining a long reigning world champion..
To me it puts hatton all the higher for bieng willing to drop these titles for the sake of legacy and entertaining fights..
But.. Lets have this out in the open and see how people feel for it..
Personally.. I havent said Calzaghe is P4P.. I perhaps consider Ricky just inside the top ten perhaps just outside of it..
But if joe is universally considered a p4p contender then ricky should be more so
Lets get it on..
Remember guys im fair but im firm .. :laugh: :lickish: Lol
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What I would say is that Hatton's big fights have all been carried out in recent fights, and before his Kostya Tzuyu fight, he had never really been in what would be considered a huge fight. Meanwhile, I reckon that Calzaghe has spread his big-name fights over his 10-year reign as WBO champion, with Eubank, Reid, Mitchell, Brewer and Lacy all at steps during his career. I also think that the length of Hatton's career at the lighter weights will naturally be shorter than Calzaghe's, both because of Hatton's size and lifestyle.
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What I would say is that Hatton's big fights have all been carried out in recent fights, and before his Kostya Tzuyu fight, he had never really been in what would be considered a huge fight. Meanwhile, I reckon that Calzaghe has spread his big-name fights over his 10-year reign as WBO champion, with Eubank, Reid, Mitchell, Brewer and Lacy all at steps during his career. I also think that the length of Hatton's career at the lighter weights will naturally be shorter than Calzaghe's, both because of Hatton's size and lifestyle.
I think the lifestyle can still be ammended..But i think hatton could well have a number of years to go..
It depends..Both have had near enough the same ammount of bouts.. Whilst hatton is much younger and got his shot alot later ' number of fights wise' .. Whilst calzaghe has had his all these years.. But not been as assertive in making his name until recent years..
I beleieve the reids mitchells and brewers of calzaghes record are those inbetween guys.. I know, you know and anyone who has ever really stepped in a ring can appreciate they are damn good fighters..
They are good..But thats the problem..Theya re only good, You can diss the urango's.. The maussa's but they were still champs and thats title fights and as good fighters as calzaghe has faced..
But Hatton has had titles to gain from these fights.. Calzaghe as a reigning champ should probably have faced more 'Tyszu's and castillo's'
And no offense to you.. Its only opinion after all.. But The Up and coming monster that is lacy ..still his biggest win as of yet.. And a past prime but always skillful and game Eubank dont match up to Kostya and Castillo imo..
And perhaps calzaghe may have undeserved problems in future fights because of the elite stages he wishes to conquer which he left it so late he isnt young, he has hand problems..
It may well all go wrong..
Ricky likes a pint.. But his commitment to training when it counts will probably carry him through
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Hatton because he has gone to USA and beat p4p great Calzaghe has beaten few good names but mostly former world champs or shot former world champs or prospect which is a shame really Calzaghe has all the talent in the world but at the moment sadly for him he isn't where he should of been and to answer your question Hatton is higher.
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Ricky does the love the pint. That is why I root for him. He is a real guy. I always respect a guy that will take tough fights and is down to earth.
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I get so burnt out on this...but Joe's level of opposition is better than Ricky's. He's faced better fighters in his class & he has dominated his division & defeneded his titles much more convincingly.
I just can't understand why people can't see it.
I'm thrilled that Hatton beat Kostya...but that's all the legit comp that he has convincingly beat for me.
Joe has beaten hard fighters in their prime that people either don't know or just refuse to acknowledge.
No matter what anyone says...Lacy was a force to be reckoned with & Joe just ruined him.
Viet was & still is a hell of a fighter...losing twice to Joe & once to Inkin in the duration of his career.
Mkrtchian was a legit fighter that had lost only once & that was to Inkin...another legit challenge. Joe pretty much destroyed Mger.
Robin Reid too was a hell of a champ but Joe handled him & no one credited him for the performance.
That's just a few of the names that many pass off as nothing...but they are good fighters that are totally disrespected.
While Hatton fought spent talent for his first 30 some odd fights, then beat Kostya, then faced Maussa (laughable), & Collazo & Urango back to back & gave VERY poor accounting of himself...that's just water under the bridge.
I will say this for Ricky...he does have a shot at redemption against Castillo & much respect if he pulls out all the stops.
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I think the lifestyle can still be ammended..But i think hatton could well have a number of years to go..
It depends..Both have had near enough the same ammount of bouts.. Whilst hatton is much younger and got his shot alot later ' number of fights wise' .. Whilst calzaghe has had his all these years.. But not been as assertive in making his name until recent years..
I beleieve the reids mitchells and brewers of calzaghes record are those inbetween guys.. I know, you know and anyone who has ever really stepped in a ring can appreciate they are damn good fighters..
They are good..But thats the problem..Theya re only good, You can diss the urango's.. The maussa's but they were still champs and thats title fights and as good fighters as calzaghe has faced..
But Hatton has had titles to gain from these fights.. Calzaghe as a reigning champ should probably have faced more 'Tyszu's and castillo's'
And no offense to you.. Its only opinion after all.. But The Up and coming monster that is lacy ..still his biggest win as of yet.. And a past prime but always skillful and game Eubank dont match up to Kostya and Castillo imo..
And perhaps calzaghe may have undeserved problems in future fights because of the elite stages he wishes to conquer which he left it so late he isnt young, he has hand problems..
It may well all go wrong..
Ricky likes a pint.. But his commitment to training when it counts will probably carry him through
Cheers for the backup Wacko, but I do kind of agree with bodyheadbanger, in that Hatton's commitment to training may indeed drive him into great things, as he (hopefully) realises that the period before each fight in order to lose the weight gets so great that he lessens the weight he puts on between bouts.
Ultimately, when it comes to you, me, and Joe Schmoe having a look at the records of each fighter, and how they became (or might become) Hall of Famers, I guess it does depend on who they fight, and how the present themselves. At the end of the day, I see a potential in both for being criticised for not taking the biggest fights early enough in their career. From Hatton's perspective he had Warren protecting him, and from Calzaghe's view, he only had journeymen and kids from higher weights willing to give him a bout. And BHB, Hatton ain't produced the goods on Castillo yet. If he does, then maybe I'll accept his legit claim to be above Joe P4P, but for now, I still reckon Joe edges it. Obviously comparisons with fighters from around the world will come, and I'm not sure what to do with those, but I'll look at them by the evidence just like all else i guess.
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I get so burnt out on this...but Joe's level of opposition is better than Ricky's. He's faced better fighters in his class & he has dominated his division & defeneded his titles much more convincingly.
I just can't understand why people can't see it.
I'm thrilled that Hatton beat Kostya...but that's all the legit comp that he has convincingly beat for me.
Joe has beaten hard fighters in their prime that people either don't know or just refuse to acknowledge.
No matter what anyone says...Lacy was a force to be reckoned with & Joe just ruined him.
Viet was & still is a hell of a fighter...losing twice to Joe & once to Inkin in the duration of his career.
Mkrtchian was a legit fighter that had lost only once & that was to Inkin...another legit challenge. Joe pretty much destroyed Mger.
Robin Reid too was a hell of a champ but Joe handled him & no one credited him for the performance.
That's just a few of the names that many pass off as nothing...but they are good fighters that are totally disrespected.
While Hatton fought spent talent for his first 30 some odd fights, then beat Kostya, then faced Maussa (laughable), & Collazo & Urango back to back & gave VERY poor accounting of himself...that's just water under the bridge.
I will say this for Ricky...he does have a shot at redemption against Castillo & much respect if he pulls out all the stops.
You make fair points wack and I myself dont discredit the fighters Joe has fought..
But i do consider them Good Not great though..
Ricky is younger, has taken a few good fights.. His last three fights have been against world champs..
Granted his performances havent been what the fans have wanted but you couldnt dispute that he got the job done.. And whilst joe has had his share or controversial decisions in his career as everybody does at some point or other..Instead of defending a title Ricky only had a title to gain, and against a better fighter imo..
So sure..Until ricky fought kostya he too wasnt exactly a world beater..Only showed potential against much the sam good competition in Vince Phillips, Ben Tackie, Eamon McGee And even whilst on that Prospect level before the real step up he stil held a wbu title and was entertaining..
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That one name though Wacko beats any name on Calzaghes record because he was p4p great.
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That one name though Wacko beats any name on Calzaghes record because he was p4p great.
I totally TOTALLY disagree.
Kostya was never a P4P great in my opinion...sorry...but he wasn't.
In the end I always thought Kostya was good...but not a great as someone else stated about Joe's opposition.
Re: Interesting topic..Hatton/Calzaghe
At the end of the day Hatton is better as why's calzaghe fighting contenders and not IBF champs like hatton's fighting in Urango???
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Calzaghe is better than hatton in ever single way except for body punching (which hatton doesn't do as much now)
We can all argue who fought whom and when and how it went - but p4p isn't about who you have fought its about being weightless and examining the boxers based on their attributes, beating big names only helps prove what others are saying.
Leftylee - you wanna write that again coz its a bit confusing? Calzaghe was the IBF SMW champ but got stripped for refusing to face the waste of time that was robert stigler... hatton went and took on urango (who is a club fighter) knowing full well he would have to face a mandatory and would not be allowed to defend it agasint castillo so there for being stripped. Urango was far form the best LW, shit junior witter is rated higher than him and would be a bigger pay day for hatton too.
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Calzaghe is better than hatton in ever single way except for body punching (which hatton doesn't do as much now)
We can all argue who fought whom and when and how it went - but p4p isn't about who you have fought its about being weightless and examining the boxers based on their attributes, beating big names only helps prove what others are saying.
Leftylee - you wanna write that again coz its a bit confusing? Calzaghe was the IBF SMW champ but got stripped for refusing to face the waste of time that was robert stigler... hatton went and took on urango (who is a club fighter) knowing full well he would have to face a mandatory and would not be allowed to defend it agasint castillo so there for being stripped. Urango was far form the best LW, shit junior witter is rated higher than him and would be a bigger pay day for hatton too.
Thats ridiculous.. Urango is a club fighter..
He is as good as most of the contenders Joe has faced and Ricky actually had something to gain from that fight..
And what do you mean he knew he would have to face a mandatory.. Thats not true atall.. Hatton is taking the right fights and Joe is still having trouble getting them
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Calzaghe is better than hatton in ever single way except for body punching (which hatton doesn't do as much now)
We can all argue who fought whom and when and how it went - but p4p isn't about who you have fought its about being weightless and examining the boxers based on their attributes, beating big names only helps prove what others are saying.
Leftylee - you wanna write that again coz its a bit confusing? Calzaghe was the IBF SMW champ but got stripped for refusing to face the waste of time that was robert stigler... hatton went and took on urango (who is a club fighter) knowing full well he would have to face a mandatory and would not be allowed to defend it agasint castillo so there for being stripped. Urango was far form the best LW, S*** junior witter is rated higher than him and would be a bigger pay day for hatton too.
Thats ridiculous.. Urango is a club fighter..
He is as good as most of the contenders Joe has faced and Ricky actually had something to gain from that fight..
And what do you mean he knew he would have to face a mandatory.. Thats not true atall.. Hatton is taking the right fights and Joe is still having trouble getting them
right fights? 2 years ago there would of been a million and one threads every month talking about hatton v castillo coz it would of had fireworks written all over it... hardly anyone has botherd to talk about it since its been anounced... why? look at what castillo and hatotn both did in thier last fight! castillo was freaking lucky to get the win - he is past it and every body knows it, just no one is willing to admit it yet until the fight is over with.
Apart form that hatton JUSt got past collazo, and beat maussa...
Now whislt hatton is looking total crap in his fights, pissing people off and being dropped out of p4p rankings all over the wolrd, Calzaghe is climing his and doing his job at SMW... lets face it tito, calzaghe has whipped every person put in front of him at the SMW, and with the recent info about kessler and palle coming to light, its not hard to se why that fight has not happend.
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Calzaghe is better than hatton in ever single way except for body punching (which hatton doesn't do as much now)
We can all argue who fought whom and when and how it went - but p4p isn't about who you have fought its about being weightless and examining the boxers based on their attributes, beating big names only helps prove what others are saying.
Leftylee - you wanna write that again coz its a bit confusing? Calzaghe was the IBF SMW champ but got stripped for refusing to face the waste of time that was robert stigler... hatton went and took on urango (who is a club fighter) knowing full well he would have to face a mandatory and would not be allowed to defend it agasint castillo so there for being stripped. Urango was far form the best LW, S*** junior witter is rated higher than him and would be a bigger pay day for hatton too.
Thats ridiculous.. Urango is a club fighter..
He is as good as most of the contenders Joe has faced and Ricky actually had something to gain from that fight..
And what do you mean he knew he would have to face a mandatory.. Thats not true atall.. Hatton is taking the right fights and Joe is still having trouble getting them
right fights? 2 years ago there would of been a million and one threads every month talking about hatton v castillo coz it would of had fireworks written all over it... hardly anyone has botherd to talk about it since its been anounced... why? look at what castillo and hatotn both did in thier last fight! castillo was freaking lucky to get the win - he is past it and every body knows it, just no one is willing to admit it yet until the fight is over with.
Apart form that hatton JUSt got past collazo, and beat maussa...
Now whislt hatton is looking total crap in his fights, pissing people off and being dropped out of p4p rankings all over the wolrd, Calzaghe is climing his and doing his job at SMW... lets face it tito, calzaghe has whipped every person put in front of him at the SMW, and with the recent info about kessler and palle coming to light, its not hard to se why that fight has not happend.
If Calzaghe truely wanted P4P Stardom he could have worked alot harder to get it..
The fights with taylor hopkins wright could have happened.. The known names he could have beat..Mundine, alan green etc.. Superfights and unifications with Kessler.. A step up to light heavyweight..
Its been there..
Hatton has not looked crap.. Hatton just wasnt particularly exciting and has had his share of troubles..
So he looked tired late against urango..But put a clinic on him..
Hatton looked snappy for the most part against collazo.. And frankly i rank collazo higher then most of the fighters joe has defended against..
Maussa..well.. theres been plenty of maussa's on joes record..But hatton had a title unification on the line and had something to gain.. Having been champ for so long and fighting the same sort of guys just defending rather then gaining anything much is less of a feat imo..
And castillo is not finished imo.. I mean how do you manage to come to this conclusion..
He had a fight with an undefeated prospect which was a fair tune up fight for the weight..
He had a shit time with him and moved on..Like its unnatural for a fighter to look bad in his first fight at a new weight.. No..Hatton was bad when he moved up too..
Theres really nothing else to be said on the subject..Whether you disagree or not we will only know come hatton - castillo..
Win loose or draw with castillo will will have the answer..But frankly.. Look out for a barrera- morales 1
performance from castillo..Barrera came back after two losses to junior jones to have a war with morales and you knew he was back even though he didnt get the win..
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Calzaghe is better than hatton in ever single way except for body punching (which hatton doesn't do as much now)
We can all argue who fought whom and when and how it went - but p4p isn't about who you have fought its about being weightless and examining the boxers based on their attributes, beating big names only helps prove what others are saying.
Leftylee - you wanna write that again coz its a bit confusing? Calzaghe was the IBF SMW champ but got stripped for refusing to face the waste of time that was robert stigler... hatton went and took on urango (who is a club fighter) knowing full well he would have to face a mandatory and would not be allowed to defend it agasint castillo so there for being stripped. Urango was far form the best LW, S*** junior witter is rated higher than him and would be a bigger pay day for hatton too.
Thats ridiculous.. Urango is a club fighter..
He is as good as most of the contenders Joe has faced and Ricky actually had something to gain from that fight..
And what do you mean he knew he would have to face a mandatory.. Thats not true atall.. Hatton is taking the right fights and Joe is still having trouble getting them
right fights? 2 years ago there would of been a million and one threads every month talking about hatton v castillo coz it would of had fireworks written all over it... hardly anyone has botherd to talk about it since its been anounced... why? look at what castillo and hatotn both did in thier last fight! castillo was freaking lucky to get the win - he is past it and every body knows it, just no one is willing to admit it yet until the fight is over with.
Apart form that hatton JUSt got past collazo, and beat maussa...
Now whislt hatton is looking total crap in his fights, pissing people off and being dropped out of p4p rankings all over the wolrd, Calzaghe is climing his and doing his job at SMW... lets face it tito, calzaghe has whipped every person put in front of him at the SMW, and with the recent info about kessler and palle coming to light, its not hard to se why that fight has not happend.
If Calzaghe truely wanted P4P Stardom he could have worked alot harder to get it..
The fights with taylor hopkins wright could have happened.. The known names he could have beat..Mundine, alan green etc.. Superfights and unifications with Kessler.. A step up to light heavyweight..
Its been there..
Hatton has not looked crap.. Hatton just wasnt particularly exciting and has had his share of troubles..
So he looked tired late against urango..But put a clinic on him..
Hatton looked snappy for the most part against collazo.. And frankly i rank collazo higher then most of the fighters joe has defended against..
Maussa..well.. theres been plenty of maussa's on joes record..But hatton had a title unification on the line and had something to gain.. Having been champ for so long and fighting the same sort of guys just defending rather then gaining anything much is less of a feat imo..
And castillo is not finished imo.. I mean how do you manage to come to this conclusion..
He had a fight with an undefeated prospect which was a fair tune up fight for the weight..
He had a S*** time with him and moved on..Like its unnatural for a fighter to look bad in his first fight at a new weight.. No..Hatton was bad when he moved up too..
Theres really nothing else to be said on the subject..Whether you disagree or not we will only know come hatton - castillo..
Win loose or draw with castillo will will have the answer..But frankly.. Look out for a barrera- morales 1
performance from castillo..Barrera came back after two losses to junior jones to have a war with morales and you knew he was back even though he didnt get the win..
What more should JOE have done then to get the hopkins, taylor or wright in the ring?
He signed his contract to fight hopksin in the us... was JOE meant to give hopkisn the extra 3million he wanted?
He has beaten every single fighter put in front of him... he should of vacated his belt and gone up to LHW to find a name there? yeah great idea going up to lhw to get a middle weight or light middle weigh to fight you....
He went to denmark to fight on the tyson undercard to try get some exposure in the us...
The ONLY half legit thing you can bring up that he could of done would of been gone to the US and fight. and lets face it WHO was he goignt o fight in the us? anyone he had already wouldn't of mattered jack, just coz it was in the US the same amount of people would of seen it and it would of pretty much given him the same publicity... The only way Joe was going to fight in the Us then was going to be on someones undercard, and for a fighter who rakes in big big cowds i'd say fuck it to that too...
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By the by, didn't team hatton bottle it for a fight with mayweather? never chased cotto, didn't give collazo a rematched he promised?
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Calzaghe is better than hatton in ever single way except for body punching (which hatton doesn't do as much now)
We can all argue who fought whom and when and how it went - but p4p isn't about who you have fought its about being weightless and examining the boxers based on their attributes, beating big names only helps prove what others are saying.
Leftylee - you wanna write that again coz its a bit confusing? Calzaghe was the IBF SMW champ but got stripped for refusing to face the waste of time that was robert stigler... hatton went and took on urango (who is a club fighter) knowing full well he would have to face a mandatory and would not be allowed to defend it agasint castillo so there for being stripped. Urango was far form the best LW, S*** junior witter is rated higher than him and would be a bigger pay day for hatton too.
Thats ridiculous.. Urango is a club fighter..
He is as good as most of the contenders Joe has faced and Ricky actually had something to gain from that fight..
And what do you mean he knew he would have to face a mandatory.. Thats not true atall.. Hatton is taking the right fights and Joe is still having trouble getting them
right fights? 2 years ago there would of been a million and one threads every month talking about hatton v castillo coz it would of had fireworks written all over it... hardly anyone has botherd to talk about it since its been anounced... why? look at what castillo and hatotn both did in thier last fight! castillo was freaking lucky to get the win - he is past it and every body knows it, just no one is willing to admit it yet until the fight is over with.
Apart form that hatton JUSt got past collazo, and beat maussa...
Now whislt hatton is looking total crap in his fights, pissing people off and being dropped out of p4p rankings all over the wolrd, Calzaghe is climing his and doing his job at SMW... lets face it tito, calzaghe has whipped every person put in front of him at the SMW, and with the recent info about kessler and palle coming to light, its not hard to se why that fight has not happend.
If Calzaghe truely wanted P4P Stardom he could have worked alot harder to get it..
The fights with taylor hopkins wright could have happened.. The known names he could have beat..Mundine, alan green etc.. Superfights and unifications with Kessler.. A step up to light heavyweight..
Its been there..
Hatton has not looked crap.. Hatton just wasnt particularly exciting and has had his share of troubles..
So he looked tired late against urango..But put a clinic on him..
Hatton looked snappy for the most part against collazo.. And frankly i rank collazo higher then most of the fighters joe has defended against..
Maussa..well.. theres been plenty of maussa's on joes record..But hatton had a title unification on the line and had something to gain.. Having been champ for so long and fighting the same sort of guys just defending rather then gaining anything much is less of a feat imo..
And castillo is not finished imo.. I mean how do you manage to come to this conclusion..
He had a fight with an undefeated prospect which was a fair tune up fight for the weight..
He had a S*** time with him and moved on..Like its unnatural for a fighter to look bad in his first fight at a new weight.. No..Hatton was bad when he moved up too..
Theres really nothing else to be said on the subject..Whether you disagree or not we will only know come hatton - castillo..
Win loose or draw with castillo will will have the answer..But frankly.. Look out for a barrera- morales 1
performance from castillo..Barrera came back after two losses to junior jones to have a war with morales and you knew he was back even though he didnt get the win..
What more should JOE have done then to get the hopkins, taylor or wright in the ring?
He signed his contract to fight hopksin in the us... was JOE meant to give hopkisn the extra 3million he wanted?
He has beaten every single fighter put in front of him... he should of vacated his belt and gone up to LHW to find a name there? yeah great idea going up to lhw to get a middle weight or light middle weigh to fight you....
He went to denmark to fight on the tyson undercard to try get some exposure in the us...
The ONLY half legit thing you can bring up that he could of done would of been gone to the US and fight. and lets face it WHO was he goignt o fight in the us? anyone he had already wouldn't of mattered jack, just coz it was in the US the same amount of people would of seen it and it would of pretty much given him the same publicity... The only way Joe was going to fight in the Us then was going to be on someones undercard, and for a fighter who rakes in big big cowds i'd say fuck it to that too...
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By the by, didn't team hatton bottle it for a fight with mayweather? never chased cotto, didn't give collazo a rematched he promised?
So do show the proof that hatton bottled such fights..Never chased cotto..Which im sure he did..
And yes did not chase collazo..But was infact supposed to stay at 140 and fight lazcano but lazcano pulled out weith injury and hatton had a date sorted on hbo without a fighter so when you get offered a world title fight at a second weight..You dont turn it down..
And the very same..Wheres your proof of these dealings with Hopkins..I wonder where the news came from..
Was it from Joe's.. The horses..Or the similar looking Mr Frank Warren? :P ;)
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Calzaghe is better than hatton in ever single way except for body punching (which hatton doesn't do as much now)
We can all argue who fought whom and when and how it went - but p4p isn't about who you have fought its about being weightless and examining the boxers based on their attributes, beating big names only helps prove what others are saying.
Leftylee - you wanna write that again coz its a bit confusing? Calzaghe was the IBF SMW champ but got stripped for refusing to face the waste of time that was robert stigler... hatton went and took on urango (who is a club fighter) knowing full well he would have to face a mandatory and would not be allowed to defend it agasint castillo so there for being stripped. Urango was far form the best LW, S*** junior witter is rated higher than him and would be a bigger pay day for hatton too.
Thats ridiculous.. Urango is a club fighter..
He is as good as most of the contenders Joe has faced and Ricky actually had something to gain from that fight..
And what do you mean he knew he would have to face a mandatory.. Thats not true atall.. Hatton is taking the right fights and Joe is still having trouble getting them
right fights? 2 years ago there would of been a million and one threads every month talking about hatton v castillo coz it would of had fireworks written all over it... hardly anyone has botherd to talk about it since its been anounced... why? look at what castillo and hatotn both did in thier last fight! castillo was freaking lucky to get the win - he is past it and every body knows it, just no one is willing to admit it yet until the fight is over with.
Apart form that hatton JUSt got past collazo, and beat maussa...
Now whislt hatton is looking total crap in his fights, pissing people off and being dropped out of p4p rankings all over the wolrd, Calzaghe is climing his and doing his job at SMW... lets face it tito, calzaghe has whipped every person put in front of him at the SMW, and with the recent info about kessler and palle coming to light, its not hard to se why that fight has not happend.
If Calzaghe truely wanted P4P Stardom he could have worked alot harder to get it..
The fights with taylor hopkins wright could have happened.. The known names he could have beat..Mundine, alan green etc.. Superfights and unifications with Kessler.. A step up to light heavyweight..
Its been there..
Hatton has not looked crap.. Hatton just wasnt particularly exciting and has had his share of troubles..
So he looked tired late against urango..But put a clinic on him..
Hatton looked snappy for the most part against collazo.. And frankly i rank collazo higher then most of the fighters joe has defended against..
Maussa..well.. theres been plenty of maussa's on joes record..But hatton had a title unification on the line and had something to gain.. Having been champ for so long and fighting the same sort of guys just defending rather then gaining anything much is less of a feat imo..
And castillo is not finished imo.. I mean how do you manage to come to this conclusion..
He had a fight with an undefeated prospect which was a fair tune up fight for the weight..
He had a S*** time with him and moved on..Like its unnatural for a fighter to look bad in his first fight at a new weight.. No..Hatton was bad when he moved up too..
Theres really nothing else to be said on the subject..Whether you disagree or not we will only know come hatton - castillo..
Win loose or draw with castillo will will have the answer..But frankly.. Look out for a barrera- morales 1
performance from castillo..Barrera came back after two losses to junior jones to have a war with morales and you knew he was back even though he didnt get the win..
What more should JOE have done then to get the hopkins, taylor or wright in the ring?
He signed his contract to fight hopksin in the us... was JOE meant to give hopkisn the extra 3million he wanted?
He has beaten every single fighter put in front of him... he should of vacated his belt and gone up to LHW to find a name there? yeah great idea going up to lhw to get a middle weight or light middle weigh to fight you....
He went to denmark to fight on the tyson undercard to try get some exposure in the us...
The ONLY half legit thing you can bring up that he could of done would of been gone to the US and fight. and lets face it WHO was he goignt o fight in the us? anyone he had already wouldn't of mattered jack, just coz it was in the US the same amount of people would of seen it and it would of pretty much given him the same publicity... The only way Joe was going to fight in the Us then was going to be on someones undercard, and for a fighter who rakes in big big cowds i'd say F*** it to that too...
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By the by, didn't team hatton bottle it for a fight with mayweather? never chased cotto, didn't give collazo a rematched he promised?
So do show the proof that hatton bottled such fights..Never chased cotto..Which im sure he did..
And yes did not chase collazo..But was infact supposed to stay at 140 and fight lazcano but lazcano pulled out weith injury and hatton had a date sorted on hbo without a fighter so when you get offered a world title fight at a second weight..You dont turn it down..
And the very same..Wheres your proof of these dealings with Hopkins..I wonder where the news came from..
Was it from Joe's.. The horses..Or the similar looking Mr Frank Warren? :P ;)
tito i hope this stays a s a debate and nothing more coz i got a lot of love for you on this forum mate...
as for the hopkins comment, its is well renound, form warren, and don king the fight was signed and hopkins doubled his price to fight joe.. there are a shit load of links and articles about it, after hopkins beat tito warren and king agreed hopkins to fight joe in MSG for $3m and hopkins after joe had signed his contract wanted $6m to take the fight...
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Calzaghe is better than hatton in ever single way except for body punching (which hatton doesn't do as much now)
We can all argue who fought whom and when and how it went - but p4p isn't about who you have fought its about being weightless and examining the boxers based on their attributes, beating big names only helps prove what others are saying.
Leftylee - you wanna write that again coz its a bit confusing? Calzaghe was the IBF SMW champ but got stripped for refusing to face the waste of time that was robert stigler... hatton went and took on urango (who is a club fighter) knowing full well he would have to face a mandatory and would not be allowed to defend it agasint castillo so there for being stripped. Urango was far form the best LW, S*** junior witter is rated higher than him and would be a bigger pay day for hatton too.
Thats ridiculous.. Urango is a club fighter..
He is as good as most of the contenders Joe has faced and Ricky actually had something to gain from that fight..
And what do you mean he knew he would have to face a mandatory.. Thats not true atall.. Hatton is taking the right fights and Joe is still having trouble getting them
right fights? 2 years ago there would of been a million and one threads every month talking about hatton v castillo coz it would of had fireworks written all over it... hardly anyone has botherd to talk about it since its been anounced... why? look at what castillo and hatotn both did in thier last fight! castillo was freaking lucky to get the win - he is past it and every body knows it, just no one is willing to admit it yet until the fight is over with.
Apart form that hatton JUSt got past collazo, and beat maussa...
Now whislt hatton is looking total crap in his fights, pissing people off and being dropped out of p4p rankings all over the wolrd, Calzaghe is climing his and doing his job at SMW... lets face it tito, calzaghe has whipped every person put in front of him at the SMW, and with the recent info about kessler and palle coming to light, its not hard to se why that fight has not happend.
If Calzaghe truely wanted P4P Stardom he could have worked alot harder to get it..
The fights with taylor hopkins wright could have happened.. The known names he could have beat..Mundine, alan green etc.. Superfights and unifications with Kessler.. A step up to light heavyweight..
Its been there..
Hatton has not looked crap.. Hatton just wasnt particularly exciting and has had his share of troubles..
So he looked tired late against urango..But put a clinic on him..
Hatton looked snappy for the most part against collazo.. And frankly i rank collazo higher then most of the fighters joe has defended against..
Maussa..well.. theres been plenty of maussa's on joes record..But hatton had a title unification on the line and had something to gain.. Having been champ for so long and fighting the same sort of guys just defending rather then gaining anything much is less of a feat imo..
And castillo is not finished imo.. I mean how do you manage to come to this conclusion..
He had a fight with an undefeated prospect which was a fair tune up fight for the weight..
He had a S*** time with him and moved on..Like its unnatural for a fighter to look bad in his first fight at a new weight.. No..Hatton was bad when he moved up too..
Theres really nothing else to be said on the subject..Whether you disagree or not we will only know come hatton - castillo..
Win loose or draw with castillo will will have the answer..But frankly.. Look out for a barrera- morales 1
performance from castillo..Barrera came back after two losses to junior jones to have a war with morales and you knew he was back even though he didnt get the win..
What more should JOE have done then to get the hopkins, taylor or wright in the ring?
He signed his contract to fight hopksin in the us... was JOE meant to give hopkisn the extra 3million he wanted?
He has beaten every single fighter put in front of him... he should of vacated his belt and gone up to LHW to find a name there? yeah great idea going up to lhw to get a middle weight or light middle weigh to fight you....
He went to denmark to fight on the tyson undercard to try get some exposure in the us...
The ONLY half legit thing you can bring up that he could of done would of been gone to the US and fight. and lets face it WHO was he goignt o fight in the us? anyone he had already wouldn't of mattered jack, just coz it was in the US the same amount of people would of seen it and it would of pretty much given him the same publicity... The only way Joe was going to fight in the Us then was going to be on someones undercard, and for a fighter who rakes in big big cowds i'd say F*** it to that too...
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By the by, didn't team hatton bottle it for a fight with mayweather? never chased cotto, didn't give collazo a rematched he promised?
So do show the proof that hatton bottled such fights..Never chased cotto..Which im sure he did..
And yes did not chase collazo..But was infact supposed to stay at 140 and fight lazcano but lazcano pulled out weith injury and hatton had a date sorted on hbo without a fighter so when you get offered a world title fight at a second weight..You dont turn it down..
And the very same..Wheres your proof of these dealings with Hopkins..I wonder where the news came from..
Was it from Joe's.. The horses..Or the similar looking Mr Frank Warren? :P ;)
tito i hope this stays a s a debate and nothing more coz i got a lot of love for you on this forum mate...
as for the hopkins comment, its is well renound, form warren, and don king the fight was signed and hopkins doubled his price to fight joe.. there are a shit load of links and articles about it, after hopkins beat tito warren and king agreed hopkins to fight joe in MSG for $3m and hopkins after joe had signed his contract wanted $6m to take the fight...
Lol..Dont worry about it bro.. You gotsta know i too have notthin but love for my G.o.a.t's of the forum.. Lol
I just cant help myself going at out debates :P :P
Lol.. I love a good debate and i know you give as well as i can ;) :)
But hell no i never take what someone believes personally.. Just as you should never take what i say even if i dont word it as well as i could..
ps ....I HATE YOU JOE C..
pps..I dont hate him.. I think hes really good just he has disapointed me over the time i have recognised him...
ppps... ;) :coolclick: :)
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Calzaghe is better than hatton in ever single way except for body punching (which hatton doesn't do as much now)
We can all argue who fought whom and when and how it went - but p4p isn't about who you have fought its about being weightless and examining the boxers based on their attributes, beating big names only helps prove what others are saying.
Leftylee - you wanna write that again coz its a bit confusing? Calzaghe was the IBF SMW champ but got stripped for refusing to face the waste of time that was robert stigler... hatton went and took on urango (who is a club fighter) knowing full well he would have to face a mandatory and would not be allowed to defend it agasint castillo so there for being stripped. Urango was far form the best LW, S*** junior witter is rated higher than him and would be a bigger pay day for hatton too.
Thats ridiculous.. Urango is a club fighter..
He is as good as most of the contenders Joe has faced and Ricky actually had something to gain from that fight..
And what do you mean he knew he would have to face a mandatory.. Thats not true atall.. Hatton is taking the right fights and Joe is still having trouble getting them
right fights? 2 years ago there would of been a million and one threads every month talking about hatton v castillo coz it would of had fireworks written all over it... hardly anyone has botherd to talk about it since its been anounced... why? look at what castillo and hatotn both did in thier last fight! castillo was freaking lucky to get the win - he is past it and every body knows it, just no one is willing to admit it yet until the fight is over with.
Apart form that hatton JUSt got past collazo, and beat maussa...
Now whislt hatton is looking total crap in his fights, pissing people off and being dropped out of p4p rankings all over the wolrd, Calzaghe is climing his and doing his job at SMW... lets face it tito, calzaghe has whipped every person put in front of him at the SMW, and with the recent info about kessler and palle coming to light, its not hard to se why that fight has not happend.
If Calzaghe truely wanted P4P Stardom he could have worked alot harder to get it..
The fights with taylor hopkins wright could have happened.. The known names he could have beat..Mundine, alan green etc.. Superfights and unifications with Kessler.. A step up to light heavyweight..
Its been there..
Hatton has not looked crap.. Hatton just wasnt particularly exciting and has had his share of troubles..
So he looked tired late against urango..But put a clinic on him..
Hatton looked snappy for the most part against collazo.. And frankly i rank collazo higher then most of the fighters joe has defended against..
Maussa..well.. theres been plenty of maussa's on joes record..But hatton had a title unification on the line and had something to gain.. Having been champ for so long and fighting the same sort of guys just defending rather then gaining anything much is less of a feat imo..
And castillo is not finished imo.. I mean how do you manage to come to this conclusion..
He had a fight with an undefeated prospect which was a fair tune up fight for the weight..
He had a S*** time with him and moved on..Like its unnatural for a fighter to look bad in his first fight at a new weight.. No..Hatton was bad when he moved up too..
Theres really nothing else to be said on the subject..Whether you disagree or not we will only know come hatton - castillo..
Win loose or draw with castillo will will have the answer..But frankly.. Look out for a barrera- morales 1
performance from castillo..Barrera came back after two losses to junior jones to have a war with morales and you knew he was back even though he didnt get the win..
What more should JOE have done then to get the hopkins, taylor or wright in the ring?
He signed his contract to fight hopksin in the us... was JOE meant to give hopkisn the extra 3million he wanted?
He has beaten every single fighter put in front of him... he should of vacated his belt and gone up to LHW to find a name there? yeah great idea going up to lhw to get a middle weight or light middle weigh to fight you....
He went to denmark to fight on the tyson undercard to try get some exposure in the us...
The ONLY half legit thing you can bring up that he could of done would of been gone to the US and fight. and lets face it WHO was he goignt o fight in the us? anyone he had already wouldn't of mattered jack, just coz it was in the US the same amount of people would of seen it and it would of pretty much given him the same publicity... The only way Joe was going to fight in the Us then was going to be on someones undercard, and for a fighter who rakes in big big cowds i'd say F*** it to that too...
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By the by, didn't team hatton bottle it for a fight with mayweather? never chased cotto, didn't give collazo a rematched he promised?
So do show the proof that hatton bottled such fights..Never chased cotto..Which im sure he did..
And yes did not chase collazo..But was infact supposed to stay at 140 and fight lazcano but lazcano pulled out weith injury and hatton had a date sorted on hbo without a fighter so when you get offered a world title fight at a second weight..You dont turn it down..
And the very same..Wheres your proof of these dealings with Hopkins..I wonder where the news came from..
Was it from Joe's.. The horses..Or the similar looking Mr Frank Warren? :P ;)
tito i hope this stays a s a debate and nothing more coz i got a lot of love for you on this forum mate...
as for the hopkins comment, its is well renound, form warren, and don king the fight was signed and hopkins doubled his price to fight joe.. there are a S*** load of links and articles about it, after hopkins beat tito warren and king agreed hopkins to fight joe in MSG for $3m and hopkins after joe had signed his contract wanted $6m to take the fight...
Lol..Dont worry about it bro.. You gotsta know i too have notthin but love for my G.o.a.t's of the forum.. Lol
I just cant help myself going at out debates :P :P
Lol.. I love a good debate and i know you give as well as i can ;) :)
But hell no i never take what someone believes personally.. Just as you should never take what i say even if i dont word it as well as i could..
ps ....I HATE YOU JOE C..
pps..I dont hate him.. I think hes really good just he has disapointed me over the time i have recognised him...
ppps... ;) :coolclick: :)
fuck this im to drunk to know what your on about so im gunna CC your ass!
na, shg i know what you mean so many people are pissed with joe coz they know the cunt could of gone so farr its unreal... honest to fuck joe could of had people argue he his top 10 GOAT i blame warren 90% of that, sure rJJ may have beaten him and what not...
but the skill the cunt has got compared to the guys he has fought is piss poor... my but my gods honest opinion is the big names (hopkins and rjj) always eeen joe as an unsessery risk.. niether guy had much to gain from him, whislt a loss would of totaly fucked them up... i slagged hopkins off alot, but last couple weeks i been thinking, he aint ever ducked joe, it just wasnt any value for him to fight him, the reiskwas to much compared to the minimal reward...
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Calzaghe is better than hatton in ever single way except for body punching (which hatton doesn't do as much now)
We can all argue who fought whom and when and how it went - but p4p isn't about who you have fought its about being weightless and examining the boxers based on their attributes, beating big na
mes only helps prove what others are saying.
Leftylee - you wanna write that again coz its a bit confusing? Calzaghe was the IBF SMW champ but got stripped for refusing to face the waste of time that was robert stigler... hatton went and took on urango (who is a club fighter) knowing full well he would have to face a mandatory and would not be allowed to defend it agasint castillo so there for being stripped. Urango was far form the best LW, S*** junior witter is rated higher than him and would be a bigger pay day for hatton too.
Thats ridiculous.. Urango is a club fighter..
He is as good as most of the contenders Joe has faced and Ricky actually had something to gain from that fight..
And what do you mean he knew he would have to face a mandatory.. Thats not true atall.. Hatton is taking the right fights and Joe is still having trouble getting them
right fights? 2 years ago there would of been a million and one threads every month talking about hatton v castillo coz it would of had fireworks written all over it... hardly anyone has botherd to talk about it since its been anounced... why? look at what castillo and hatotn both did in thier last fight! castillo was freaking lucky to get the win - he is past it and every body knows it, just no one is willing to admit it yet until the fight is over with.
Apart form that hatton JUSt got past collazo, and beat maussa...
Now whislt hatton is looking total crap in his fights, pissing people off and being dropped out of p4p rankings all over the wolrd, Calzaghe is climing his and doing his job at SMW... lets face it tito, calzaghe has whipped every person put in front of him at the SMW, and with the recent info about kessler and palle coming to light, its not hard to se why that fight has not happend.
If Calzaghe truely wanted P4P Stardom he could have worked alot harder to get it..
The fights with taylor hopkins wright could have happened.. The known names he could have beat..Mundine, alan green etc.. Superfights and unifications with Kessler.. A step up to light heavyweight..
Its been there..
Hatton has not looked crap.. Hatton just wasnt particularly exciting and has had his share of troubles..
So he looked tired late against urango..But put a clinic on him..
Hatton looked snappy for the most part against collazo.. And frankly i rank collazo higher then most of the fighters joe has defended against..
Maussa..well.. theres been plenty of maussa's on joes record..But hatton had a title unification on the line and had something to gain.. Having been champ for so long and fighting the same sort of guys just defending rather then gaining anything much is less of a feat imo..
And castillo is not finished imo.. I mean how do you manage to come to this conclusion..
He had a fight with an undefeated prospect which was a fair tune up fight for the weight..
He had a S*** time with him and moved on..Like its unnatural for a fighter to look bad in his first fight at a new weight.. No..Hatton was bad when he moved up too..
Theres really nothing else to be said on the subject..Whether you disagree or not we will only know come hatton - castillo..
Win loose or draw with castillo will will have the answer..But frankly.. Look out for a barrera- morales 1
performance from castillo..Barrera came back after two losses to junior jones to have a war with morales and you knew he was back even though he didnt get the win..
What more should JOE have done then to get the hopkins, taylor or wright in the ring?
He signed his contract to fight hopksin in the us... was JOE meant to give hopkisn the extra 3million he wanted?
He has beaten every single fighter put in front of him... he should of vacated his belt and gone up to LHW to find a name there? yeah great idea going up to lhw to get a middle weight or light middle weigh to fight you....
He went to denmark to fight on the tyson undercard to try get some exposure in the us...
The ONLY half legit thing you can bring up that he could of done would of been gone to the US and fight. and lets face it WHO was he goignt o fight in the us? anyone he had already wouldn't of mattered jack, just coz it was in the US the same amount of people would of seen it and it would of pretty much given him the same publicity... The only way Joe was going to fight in the Us then was going to be on someones undercard, and for a fighter who rakes in big big cowds i'd say F*** it to that too...
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By the by, didn't team hatton bottle it for a fight with mayweather? never chased cotto, didn't give collazo a rematched he promised?
So do show the proof that hatton bottled such fights..Never chased cotto..Which im sure he did..
And yes did not chase collazo..But was infact supposed to stay at 140 and fight lazcano but lazcano pulled out weith injury and hatton had a date sorted on hbo without a fighter so when you get offered a world title fight at a second weight..You dont turn it down..
And the very same..Wheres your proof of these dealings with Hopkins..I wonder where the news came from..
Was it from Joe's.. The horses..Or the similar looking Mr Frank Warren? :P ;)
tito i hope this stays a s a debate and nothing more coz i got a lot of love for you on this forum mate...
as for the hopkins comment, its is well renound, form warren, and don king the fight was signed and hopkins doubled his price to fight joe.. there are a S*** load of links and articles about it, after hopkins beat tito warren and king agreed hopkins to fight joe in MSG for $3m and hopkins after joe had signed his contract wanted $6m to take the fight...
Lol..Dont worry about it bro.. You gotsta know i too have notthin but love for my G.o.a.t's of the forum.. Lol
I just cant help myself going at out debates :P :P
Lol.. I love a good debate and i know you give as well as i can ;) :)
But hell no i never take what someone believes personally.. Just as you should never take what i say even if i dont word it as well as i could..
ps ....I HATE YOU JOE C..
pps..I dont hate him.. I think hes really good just he has disapointed me over the time i have recognised him...
ppps... ;) :coolclick: :)
fuck this im to drunk to know what your on about so im gunna CC your ass!
na, shg i know what you mean so many people are pissed with joe coz they know the cunt could of gone so farr its unreal... honest to fuck joe could of had people argue he his top 10 GOAT i blame warren 90% of that, sure rJJ may have beaten him and what not...
but the skill the cunt has got compared to the guys he has fought is piss poor... my but my gods honest opinion is the big names (hopkins and rjj) always eeen joe as an unsessery risk.. niether guy had much to gain from him, whislt a loss would of totaly fucked them up... i slagged hopkins off alot, but last couple weeks i been thinking, he aint ever ducked joe, it just wasnt any value for him to fight him, the reiskwas to much compared to the minimal reward...
What you say is true..
Of course people have theyr opinions based on where they come from...
But as far as little known contenders go for Hopkins or Roy Jones goes..Calz' Was much too good a fighter for the little reward they could get from beating him...
Of course this is no indication on my part that joe would beat them :P
But i beleive that by the time Joe was near enough a worthy ass challenger to Roy ..Roy was at light heavy and racking up titles in a near empty division all the while contemplating a move to heavyweight..
It may have been a different story if a prime and less injured Joe c had tried his luck at light heavy but i suppose we will never know..
One prop i will give him is fair play on bieng a good enough boxer to make 168 all this time..
I make so much of bernard making 160 all those years even in old age..But calzaghe has been rather good in the training department..
