Is Ricky Hatton Hall Of Fame Worthy?

[Fenster]

Anyone that has 30,000 bods follow them halfway across the world - who inturn drink the city dry - is a shoo-in. Fact.

[TitoFan]

Anyone that has 30,000 bods follow them halfway across the world - who inturn drink the city dry - is a shoo-in. Fact.

Really? That's all you need? A huge, loyal, drunken following?

[killersheep]

Anyone that has 30,000 bods follow them halfway across the world - who inturn drink the city dry - is a shoo-in. Fact.

Really? That's all you need? A huge, loyal, drunken following?

It's not the hall of talent.

[TitoFan]

Anyone that has 30,000 bods follow them halfway across the world - who inturn drink the city dry - is a shoo-in. Fact.

Really? That's all you need? A huge, loyal, drunken following?

It's not the hall of talent.

So you can be talent-less and STILL make the Hall? Really?

[killersheep]

Anyone that has 30,000 bods follow them halfway across the world - who inturn drink the city dry - is a shoo-in. Fact.

Really? That's all you need? A huge, loyal, drunken following?

It's not the hall of talent.

So you can be talent-less and STILL make the Hall? Really?

You gotta get to a certain level to even become famous, Hatton was what he was, an exciting dirty fighter that brought a metric shit ton of fans to watch him fight. Was he the most talented of his day? Hell no, but he definitely helped the sport as a whole via sales and his fame. It's an important thing to the survival of the sport.

[TitoFan]

Anyone that has 30,000 bods follow them halfway across the world - who inturn drink the city dry - is a shoo-in. Fact.

Really? That's all you need? A huge, loyal, drunken following?

It's not the hall of talent.

So you can be talent-less and STILL make the Hall? Really?

You gotta get to a certain level to even become famous, Hatton was what he was, an exciting dirty fighter that brought a metric shit ton of fans to watch him fight. Was he the most talented of his day? Hell no, but he definitely helped the sport as a whole via sales and his fame. It's an important thing to the survival of the sport.

Well, certainly there's a lot of things that factor into whether or not a fighter is Hall-worthy. Had Hatton been an American fighter, with the same skills, I doubt whether too many people would be talking about him today. But he's English... and let's face it... a nation that embraces boxing so much but has been somewhat short on world champions as of late.... they're bound to latch onto someone like Hatton with all their might. And that in itself I guess should be considered somewhere in there.

[killersheep]

Anyone that has 30,000 bods follow them halfway across the world - who inturn drink the city dry - is a shoo-in. Fact.

Really? That's all you need? A huge, loyal, drunken following?

It's not the hall of talent.

So you can be talent-less and STILL make the Hall? Really?

You gotta get to a certain level to even become famous, Hatton was what he was, an exciting dirty fighter that brought a metric shit ton of fans to watch him fight. Was he the most talented of his day? Hell no, but he definitely helped the sport as a whole via sales and his fame. It's an important thing to the survival of the sport.

Well, certainly there's a lot of things that factor into whether or not a fighter is Hall-worthy. Had Hatton been an American fighter, with the same skills, I doubt whether too many people would be talking about him today. But he's English... and let's face it... a nation that embraces boxing so much but has been somewhat short on world champions as of late.... they're bound to latch onto someone like Hatton with all their might. And that in itself I guess should be considered somewhere in there.

That's the only point I'm making really, I mean aside from Pacquiao that level of obsession isn't around with any other fighter today. There are a lot of guys that have good support and plenty of nations support their guys well, but he was at another level in that regard.