Quote Originally Posted by p4pking


Good post and I mostly agree... Except for where you say Hatton adds to his greatness, because he won a fight that was close. I completely disagree there. Not because I couldn't see him getting the nod even though I scored it for Collazo, but because ONCE Hatton started losing, he didn't do what you say at all, he didn't turn things around and the fight got consistently worse for him as it progressed.. He didn't adapt whatsoever and because of it easily could have lost the fight.. As well if he hadn't scored a somewhat lucky knockdown early, he wouldn't have won.. So I don't see what you mean here, it's not like Hatton pulled it out of the bag although he was in danger of losing.. If anything he built an early lead and the just got beat up for the 2nd half of the fight. Big difference. THat's like saying Joe Mesi proved he could be great by winning a close fight against Vassily.
I am not saying it adds to his greatness, because Hatton is not great at the moment, indeed he is quite far from it.

But one day, if he does fulfill his potential, and is considered a great, people will look back at this fight, and see a not 100% Hatton fighting a tricky opponent, and being in serious trouble for the first time in his career. But they will also see that Hatton won.

A situation that happened to Roy Jones in his first fight against Montell Griffin, but the big difference to Hatton is Ricky has found a way to win unlike Roy, who was unable to control himself, and got himself DQ'd.

My point is, it could be a plank of evidence to show Hatton's Greatness in the fullness of time.