I must admit I've never been a big Ricky Hatton fan, not his fighting style at least anyway.

It's always easy to say a fighters skilla are eroding or they are losing what made them great but it also usually coincides with them stepping up in class.

Ricky fought a lot of jobbers and old formely decent fighters prior to Tyszu with one or two excepetions, Magee who floored him and gave him a tough fight, and Tackie who also gave him a hard fight.

I just think he was never an elite level fighter. He's very good but the reason he hasn't looked excellent in any fight since Tyszu is because he's not that much better than the fighters he's faced.

He's a very good fighter but not elite imo.