Quote Originally Posted by Saddo
let me sum this up how i see it....

Hatton has alot more haters than Barrera
Flippant remark, and untrue, as you know

IMO the two fights were completely different.

Hatton is making his way up, trying to show that one day he may become a Great one. And he has made amazing strides, culminating in beating the brilliant Kostya Tszyu. And because he was so good against Tszyu everybody has such high expectations about his performances since.

Against Collazo for the first time ever, he did not meet up to them expectations, and has taken a lot grief for that. Some deserved, some a bit harsh, some completely over the top.

Barrera is comming to the end of a superb career, he is perhaps showing signs of wear and tear from 12+ years of fighting at the very top. He is defiantly less consistant than he was at his best, and perhaps will only rise to the occasion when there is another superb fighter in the opposite corner.

Because of this when he merely fights a very good fighter, like Juarez, he struggles. But because Barrera has given us all one hell of a ride over the last 10 years or so, perhaps unlike Hatton he gets more of the benefit of the doubt?