Hatton over rated-you bet!!!!

[El Kabong]

This is just gonna be a statement fight, a "this is why no one wants to fight me" fight.

Ricky said he wants 6 more fights and he's hanging up the gloves: Margarito, Floyd, Cotto, Mosley, De la Hoya, and Baldomir...I think that's his list

[YounGun]

well, they always find a negative angle...
After all he has fought three champions in all three of his last fights, so i wouldn't call them easy.

I saw this article last night and truthfully I agree with about 75% of it. The only thing I don't agree on is the weight thing. If the guy can make the weight everytime and he feels ok in the ring then it should mateer if he pigs out between fights. Now lets put everything else in perspective. First I wanna say that I have no personal problem with hatton so please don't think I'm hating.
- Hatton fought D,C,and C+ fighter in the 38 fights before tszyu which shows me he didn't even deserve a shot in the first place and especially not in England. He beats Tszyu(the win was a little shady but it was a win)
- After beating a great fighter in tszyu what does hatton do? Go back to fighting bums. I don't care if they had belts cause everyone knows that alot of these belts don't mean anything nowadays.
-Maussa was a bum. A very green cotto tkoed him and the only reason harris fought him was because he was a bum. Yes he beat harris but I think that had a lot more to do with harris than maussa actually being better.So hatton decides to fight this bum and honestly he was having a little trouble with him. His value shouldn't go up with that win just like floyds shouldn't have gone up for fighting Bruseles or Mitchell.
- Now he wants to fight Collazo. Come on he has a belt but he ain't a champ. I say this cause how could he be a champ when he got that belt Judah was Undisputed. Hes a paper champ. The guy he beat to get that strap was a paper champ. Hatton gets no props from me if he wins because its a weak choice to go along with all his other choices.
-Is Hatton overated? Yes. All he has done is beat Tszyu(not in his prime but pretty close) everything else is just window dressing. Beating one pound 4 pounder at the end of his career doesn't make you great. Please don't give me that who else can he fight crap cause there were some decent opponents out there for him but he didn't want them. Harris,Witter.
Hatton is decent but he really hasn't proven to be great or as good as his fans believe.Fight Margarito,Judah, Mayweather, or even Cintron and he would get a little more respect but until then the truth is he has fought 39 D,C, and C+ fighters.

Fair post, and I pretty much agree.

Hatton is very talented, and a really nice guy... but his goodness (and some dare say greatness) is still all speculation and in need of being proven. I think he has what it takes to do some damage... but who cares what I or you think. He needs to make sure we all know how good he is.

[Mr. Nightmare]

Stupid posts like this annoy me. Ricky Hatton, at 40-0, with a CONVINCING win over reigning 140 kingpin Kostya Tszyu, is NOT overrated!!

[JT Rock]

Stupid posts like this annoy me. Ricky Hatton, at 40-0, with a CONVINCING win over reigning 140 kingpin Kostya Tszyu, is NOT overrated!!

Listen man an over the hill an uniterested kostya!!!! he needs another bigfight before I am convinced Dont get hung up on the name but the quality of opponent lets see what tonite has instore if he loses 2 nite who gives a shirt if he beat Tszyu plety of other young fighters in there prime he can take a shot at

[MRMANICK]

Stupid posts like this annoy me. Ricky Hatton, at 40-0, with a CONVINCING win over reigning 140 kingpin Kostya Tszyu, is NOT overrated!!

What has he done besides that? If thats all you got then I guess Vince Phillips is great too.

[superheavyrhun]

This is typical of every Brit who's finally getting a decent fight to be held in America, and everyone gets on their backs cause they haven't fought anyone who's anyone held in high regard by the American press, who are almost universally...you guessed it...American.

It's not that I'm hating against Americans (here it comes....) but, most Americans are too inward looking and don't rate anyone who hasn't fought in America, and then when the rest of the world get the fights and make a joke of the American fighter, there's always someone who'll criticise the American for being over the hill/not preparing properly, rather than giving the foreign fighter the credit they deserve.

I love America, it is an amazing country, and I've been there more times than I can count and always love the people, but when it comes to boxing it's like a horse wearing blinkers.

*raises guard*

[JT Rock]

This is typical of every Brit who's finally getting a decent fight to be held in America, and everyone gets on their backs cause they haven't fought anyone who's anyone held in high regard by the American press, who are almost universally...you guessed it...American.

It's not that I'm hating against Americans (here it comes....) but, most Americans are too inward looking and don't rate anyone who hasn't fought in America, and then when the rest of the world get the fights and make a joke of the American fighter, there's always someone who'll criticise the American for being over the hill/not preparing properly, rather than giving the foreign fighter the credit they deserve.

I love America, it is an amazing country, and I've been there more times than I can count and always love the people, but when it comes to boxing it's like a horse wearing blinkers.

*raises guard*

OK than name a UK Fighter that Hatton beat that can beat a top flight US fighter

[superheavyrhun]

He hasn't fought any UK fighters recently, at least no one that would have been going up against a US contender, but you know that already don't you?

The point I was making was that in order to get a shot at one of the contenders in the US, a fighter from outside the US has to work twice as hard as someone who is American. Hatton had to beat Kostya Tzsyu before anyone in the states would even look at him, and Tzsyu was a proven fighter in the US. And now that Tzsyu lost, everyone's keen to point out that he was washed up and over the hill which is clearly just bs.

There just seems to be two divisions, one in the US, almost entirely of north/central American based fighters, and the rest of the World, and to have a pop at someone in the US side of the division, they've had to have wiped the floor with the RotW division.

[SalTheButcher]

Collazo was 22-1 before he would attempt the lofty Carter.

lofty carter

[The_One77]

Stupid posts like this annoy me. Ricky Hatton, at 40-0, with a CONVINCING win over reigning 140 kingpin Kostya Tszyu, is NOT overrated!!

Listen man an over the hill an uniterested kostya!!!! he needs another bigfight before I am convinced Dont get hung up on the name but the quality of opponent lets see what tonite has instore if he loses 2 nite who gives a shirt if he beat Tszyu plety of other young fighters in there prime he can take a shot at

Tyszu was not over the hill, it would of been the same result 3 years previous....you are making excuses now.
If anything, Hatton made Tyszu shot

[Gandalf]

Hatton is the real thing. He is a dangerous fighter and he is willing to attempt to take on big names. So far though Hatton still only has 3 names on his resume....

Give him a little time and hopefully he will be able to answer all his doubters...

First he will destroy Collazo, then I want to see the winner of Gatti: Baldomir take on Hatton (would be great for exposure in the US).....and then we are in the realm of super fights....

[Snakey]

HAHAHAHA even a brit said he had dirty tactics....i will stop there but come on people dont act like i was the only one who saw little innocent ricky doing ANYTHING he could to win

[Gandalf]

HAHAHAHA even a brit said he had dirty tactics....i will stop there but come on people dont act like i was the only one who saw little innocent ricky doing ANYTHING he could to win

ricky played it a little rough, thats all i can say!

[superheavyrhun]

HAHAHAHA even a brit said he had dirty tactics....i will stop there but come on people dont act like i was the only one who saw little innocent ricky doing ANYTHING he could to win

I've had a close examination and DNA test of Hatton's halo, and I can unequivocably say that it is pure, golden, and made of purest caerphilly cheese like all good haloes.
And as for doing what he has to do to win, show me a fighter who doesn't do what he has to win, and I'll show you a record with L's right next to the big fights in that career!

[maracho]

Did anything to win even better than ruiz but then why not when the ref lets you hold and hit all night,

I would agree with Hatton though in that Collazo would give a lot of good fighters a lot of problems.