Great Technical Boxers Limited by Mentality

[donnydarkoIRL]

Ricky Hatton is not a great technical boxer. He's a guy with above average speed, but not a ton of skill, who made the most with what he had. If Ricky Hatton had been born in say... Ghana, and didn't have the big marketable fanbase that he got in the UK, he never would have been considered an elite fighter at any point in his career.

(On this board, I'm sure this post is going to go over about as well as a fart at church).

Ricky is a complete natural...
Given the correct guidance and had he applied his own mind to the technical aspects of the game he could have been gifted.

Thwe man was a special athlete, but he was limited by his mentality which drove him to burrow forward with little in mind.
Is this not a fighter limited by mindset?

Don't really get what your saying here, i've seen plenty of Ricky Hatton fights and he has never been a technical fighter. And your comments seem to be assumptions IMO.

He's a good athlete with good speed, but how does that equal him being a technical boxer ? and even if you do consider him to be somewhat of a technical boxer. Was he a great technical boxer really ?

Technical boxers IMO are guys like James Toney, Mike McCallum, Marlon Starling, Winky Wright, ETC.

Ricky Hatton may of not had the best mentality, but he certainly was never a technical boxer and he never could be.

Ricky Hatton in his prime could be a boxer/puncher, and he could do it very well, but again he was never a technical boxer. And in his later career he certainly wasn't either. Just mostly coming forward and swarming.

Never in any post have I stated or claimed that Ricky Hatton was a good technical boxer.
I stated that had he applied his natural athleticism to boxing as a science he could have been a far better fighter.

[SweetPea]

Never in any post have I stated or claimed that Ricky Hatton was a good technical boxer.

If you don't think Ricky Hatton is a good technical boxer, then why in the world did you list him in a thread called "Great Technical Boxers Limited By Mentality"?

That'd be like if I started a thread titled "Fat Heavyweights," listed James Toney in bold in my post, and then said, "Never in any post have I stated or claimed that James Toney is fat."

[Andre]

fart -church -pew. get it?
Never mind.

HAtton /squandered /talent.
Sure he's not great technically but limited mentally 4 sure and effected in the ring by it, worth a mention.

There are very few Great technical boxers ever, aside from ones limited by mentality: the two just dont go hand in hand.

Thank God for different styles reaches,heart and build.

[AdamGB]

Never in any post have I stated or claimed that Ricky Hatton was a good technical boxer.

If you don't think Ricky Hatton is a good technical boxer, then why in the world did you list him in a thread called "Great Technical Boxers Limited By Mentality"?

That'd be like if I started a thread titled "Fat Heavyweights," listed James Toney in bold in my post, and then said, "Never in any post have I stated or claimed that James Toney is fat."

I hate to ruin the nit picking you're so obviously enjoying but I think that Donny is talking about fighters who could have been better if it wasn't for their mind set?

Maybe if you replace 'Great technical boxers' with 'great boxers on paper' or 'fighters with greater potential' like he clearly means then you wouldn't be so anal about it?

Where Tua or Golota 'technical' fighters? No... it's clear what the direction here is, go nit pick your face instead.

[SweetPea]

Never in any post have I stated or claimed that Ricky Hatton was a good technical boxer.

If you don't think Ricky Hatton is a good technical boxer, then why in the world did you list him in a thread called "Great Technical Boxers Limited By Mentality"?

That'd be like if I started a thread titled "Fat Heavyweights," listed James Toney in bold in my post, and then said, "Never in any post have I stated or claimed that James Toney is fat."

I hate to ruin the nit picking you're so obviously enjoying but I think that Donny is talking about fighters who could have been better if it wasn't for their mind set?

Maybe if you replace 'Great technical boxers' with 'great boxers on paper' or 'fighters with greater potential' like he clearly means then you wouldn't be so anal about it?

Where Tua or Golota 'technical' fighters? No... it's clear what the direction here is, go nit pick your face instead.

Nitpick is one word, not two. How's that for nitpicking?

[AdamGB]

Not bad...