HOW GOOD IS RICKY HATTON?

[Swashbuckling Gordy]

But is 4 good names in fourty odd fights enough and the names are old or has beens in my opinion and now he is gunna fight Castillo who is abit past it too this is why i dont get what im missing

well that sounds pretty good to me 4 good names is pretty good in this day and age

4 big names in fourty odd fights is good how? to be getting called a great fighter he needs more than this in my opinion and thats how people are talking about him thats why i don't get it.

e.g Kostya Tszyu W31 L2 D0 and in this record

Mayweather
Rodriguez were'nt bad
Hurtado were'nt bad
Gonzalez
Ruelas
Phillips
Bergman
Mitchell twice
Urkal
Judah
Tackie
and Hatton i suppose now

i make that 12 decent names in 33 fights just a point

and on ur method of saying that a fightr needs to fight more than 4 big names to be considered greatthen alot of those uv just mentioned were not great themselves

for example judah give me the big names he had fought AT THE TIME HE FOUGHT TSZYU
same with mitchell and tackie and urkal and also u dont just have to fight the big names u have to beqat them to be a big name yourself so give me some big wins from these fighters

also everyone said before the fight that hatton had no chance and that tszyu would destroy him but suddenly when the result had been read out tsyzu had suddenly become old and shot

another factor in my eyes is as follows - tsyzu was a power puncher that was his main selling point and we all know the last thing to go with age is power i could understand if he was a fleet footed fight who ran around for 12 rounds normally but he wasnt

the way i see it is simple hatton had the bravery to get in close were it was risky to be with a puncher like tszyu but he took that risk and it paid off, i admit he hasnt been at his best latly and maybe his lifestyle has caught up with him but i believe its due to lack of challenge the fight with tszyu was rickys best performance and since then i think he hasnt been very motivated but i feel this will change when he fights castillo and the challenge will again bring the best out of him again....


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Hitman Hatton , fucking good post old boy well done !!!

Hatton did what nobody else could do at the time and bash KT up outman him take his shots and storm through the breech heroiclly !!!

Here is something for you too chew on doubters .

All fighters have flaws , some get by doing very little KT was one such fighter he was very good at what he did . In his case he was a master of time and distance i dont think in the pros he was an especially hard puncher with quick hands or fast feet but he had a very successfull formula .

You could argue that Zab Judah had faster feet and hands or was a harder puncher with more variety but when push came to shove and crisis reared its ugly head KT stood tall and ZJ fell apart .

Alot of good figthers tried and failed to master KT .

Hatton was the man who got in their an exposed his limitations !!

Hatton had the guts the intelligance and the gameplan to do what needed to be done at the time .

Hindsight is always 20/20

Hatton is a very good fighter no doubt at this juncture we're asking how good something which is asked of every fighter at some stage of their career .

Hatton is standing tall and we'll no in time but in my mind Hatton is one of the best in the world right now .

But even the best get beat .