Quote Originally Posted by hattonthehammer View Post
No they arent and its completely unfair for you to tarnish everyone with the same brush.

98% of those that travelled to germany didnt end up smashing the place up yet you choose to base your opinions on the handful that did. Being an england football fan is about being passionate about your country and getting behind the team as much as you can. Naturally if 30,000 die hard fans travel out to watch a game of footie/boxing you are going to get the odd bad egg.

Many of those i met, spoke to in vegas were good knowlegable fight fans that were over there with the same intentions they would attend a footie game, for the love of the sport. No they probably cant tell you who kevin johnson or marco huck are. Doesnt mean they arent knowlegable fight fans does it just that there not hardcore nuts like me and you.

Your experience of vegas seems such a shame as mine was completely different. The HANDFUL of fans shouting racial obscenitys are c*nts of the highest order and dont deserve to breath the same breath as you and i that and that only i will agree with you on!
Were you at the weigh-in? Because I seem to remember you saying you travelled out AFTER that? In which case you have nothing to base it on as you weren't there.

As for the England football fans, READ what I wrote. I at no point said that all England fans were like that, just that many of the Hatton fans struck me as similar oafs as the ones who DO do that. I don't think everyone there supporting Hatton was like that (as I've already said), but a substantial number at the weigh-in were.

As for Germany, whilst again I said it was not all of them it was sadly a far higher proportion than 2%. If you'd like another analogy it's the same dicks who go on holiday to Spain or Greece & take a shit in a town square. As a country we seem to churn these morons out by the bucketload.

As for their knowledge, listen, I can accept someone as a boxing fan if they don't know Kevin Johnson or Marco Huck. I find it impossible to do so if they don't know who Juan Manuel Marquez or Shane Mosley are. I did meet some out there who were boxing fans, but all of them identified themselves as that rather than Hatton fans. This was not unique to Hatton, as I've said many of the Pacquiao fans were also dicks of the highest order, some of them also racist knobheads.

On this I will agree with you, Hatton does bring in a massive fanbase, but for them he's popular because he's 'one of them' (likes a drink & eating unhealthy food). However, it's not the most fanatical ever seen, merely the one with the best travelling support. He's not anywhere near the most popular fighter of all time, but he did take masses to the US twice, if we assume of course that they all or mostly went there to support Hatton.