When was Ricky Hatton in his prime!

[yvonne]

In his last 4 fights he lost 2 of them, too the best £4£ on the planet.But the 2 that he won against Lazcano and Malignaggi are'nt world beaters even tho Malignaggi was an ex champ.

One of his best wins was against Luis Castillo but was he already past his best he looked good because imo Castillo fought Hattons sort of fight.

Did he spend his best years fighting the likes of Mike Stewart and Ray Olivera who are'nt bad fighters but they are'nt world class,did Frank Warren hold him back for too long and by the time the big fights came he was slightly past his best ?

i would'nt say that he was slighty missed timed in the world stage.Hatton has fought who he needed to fight to get where he got and his record is nothing to be shamed about.The only thing that i would of liked is Hatton to have fought Witter but that wont happen now will it?Hatton is passed it now i think,i love the bloke but them heavy drinking sessions have caught up with him now.Hatton will fight on but i hope he calls it a day if he gets badly tagged again like he did with Pacman.

[littlebif]

There is no shame in losing 2.He had a great career was just wondering if he was pushed abit early in his career we might of seen him in some more big fights when he wasnt past him prime.

[killersheep]

There is no shame in losing 2.He had a great career was just wondering if he was pushed abit early in his career we might of seen him in some more big fights when he wasnt past him prime.

Brawlers have short careers, no he wasn't pushed early, he had a good pace in competition incline during his career.

[elryano]

agree with you 100% littlebif. He was held back far too long in typical warren style. His prime was wasted somewhat, however i do feel he acheived far more than he seemed destined for. Until about 2003 he looked a european level fighter. Perhaps his wins over collazo, urango, actually represent good achievements rather than underperformances as they are usually seen. It could be said that this was hatton performing at his maximum, but following his win over Kostya his best was deemed to be far better than it actually was. hence his performances in these fights were deemed to be poor performances.

[CFH]

I don't know enough about Hatton pre-Tszyu to say when I think his prime began, but I feel his decline started after the Collazo fight. I really don't think he was ever the same afterwards.

[AdamGB]

It depends how good you think Tyszu was really.

hatton either hit an alarming peak that not and then quickly regressed or he beat the right opponent on the right at the right time in their careers and he is simply over rated.

I'm somewhere between the two myself tbh

[porkypara]

Hattons fault if you can call it that is he went out of his way to face the best.


After beating Koysta he could have fought a few times a year against half decent opponent and stayed unbeaten up till now.

Instead he wanted to fight the best and did and came up short.


No shame there.

[elryano]

It depends how good you think Tyszu was really.

hatton either hit an alarming peak that not and then quickly regressed or he beat the right opponent on the right at the right time in their careers and he is simply over rated.

I'm somewhere between the two myself tbh

Yea, this is kinda my position. Its extremely difficult to judge, but look at at this way : if we take the tzysu fight out of the equation, the three fights that followed actually look like impressive achievements based on what hatton had achieved before. so it might be reasonable to assume that hattons win over KT was due to KT being past his best AND hattons best performance. If for example he went straight from ben tackie to collazo, the win over collazo would have been hailed as a great performance

[HattonTheHammer]

It depends how good you think Tyszu was really.

hatton either hit an alarming peak that not and then quickly regressed or he beat the right opponent on the right at the right time in their careers and he is simply over rated.

I'm somewhere between the two myself tbh

completely spot on

I like to think the tszyu he fought in manchester was indeed the hard hitting russian technician who was almost unmovable at the weight. Hatton that night gave britain one of its finest sporting succeses not in the fact he became a world champ but in the manner he had done it in.

The immidiate fight after that he came up against a very average carlos maussa who he blew away but then when america came calling and particularly his decision to move up the weights he found his physical superiority over opponents was no longer their and had to rely on his technical prowess to get through second tier fighters.

The hatton that fought pacquiao was a complete shell of the guy that beat tszyu back in 2005. Thats not an excuse but a common fact