Do u americans think that we british fans hype up ...

[AdamGB]

lol... lyle, if the UK went overboard with Ricky Hatton then the US put on concrete shoes and wrapped chains around itself before diving into the atlantic over Jeff lacy...

[El Kabong]

lol... lyle, if the UK went overboard with Ricky Hatton then the US put on concrete shoes and wrapped chains around itself before diving into the atlantic over Jeff lacy...

Of course I exagerated, but Jeff Lacy was an OK fighter, I think he could have done very well had he not gotten injured.....what's Ricky's excuse?

[generalbulldog]

lol... lyle, if the UK went overboard with Ricky Hatton then the US put on concrete shoes and wrapped chains around itself before diving into the atlantic over Jeff lacy...

Of course I exagerated, but Jeff Lacy was an OK fighter, I think he could have done very well had he not gotten injured.....what's Ricky's excuse?

Too many beers.

[HattonTheHammer]

lol... lyle, if the UK went overboard with Ricky Hatton then the US put on concrete shoes and wrapped chains around itself before diving into the atlantic over Jeff lacy...

Of course I exagerated, but Jeff Lacy was an OK fighter, I think he could have done very well had he not gotten injured.....what's Ricky's excuse?

Too many beers.

comparing hatton to lacy

Hatton got beat by the 2 best fighters of the last 15 years. Lacy got beat by jermain taylor



Love the man or hate him ricky still deserves to be remembered as a great fighter and he`ll go down in boxing folklore for years to come not just for his succeses in the ring but the fanbase and acceptance no other fighter has ever received outside the ring.

Is their a single other fighter in boxing history that has managed to cross continents with an army of 35 thousand fans at his side willing to roar him on to victory??

[Majesty]

Of course I exagerated, but Jeff Lacy was an OK fighter, I think he could have done very well had he not gotten injured.....what's Ricky's excuse?

Too many beers.

comparing hatton to lacy

Hatton got beat by the 2 best fighters of the last 15 years. Lacy got beat by jermain taylor

Who in turn beat one of the greatest Middleweights of all time twice in his own weight class. Your point being? Lacy has only lost to Calzaghe, Taylor, and Roy Jones Jr. Two hall of famers and one guy who beat a Hall Of Famer and the greatest in his weight division(or top three) twice and he lost to Taylor and Roy after his shoulder injury and he never looked the same since that injury either. Hattons excuse is what? The ring post ruined him?

So I don't see what you're getting at

[ryanman]

Too many beers.

comparing hatton to lacy

Hatton got beat by the 2 best fighters of the last 15 years. Lacy got beat by jermain taylor

Who in turn beat one of the greatest Middleweights of all time twice in his own weight class. Your point being? Lacy has only lost to Calzaghe, Taylor, and Roy Jones Jr. Two hall of famers and one guy who beat a Hall Of Famer and the greatest in his weight division(or top three) twice and he lost to Taylor and Roy after his shoulder injury and he never looked the same since that injury either. Hattons excuse is what? The ring post ruined him?

So I don't see what you're getting at

Erm, i'm not sure Hatton needs to make excuses for his 4 'world' titles. So he wasn't the best fighter in the world. but i don't think anyone really ever thought he was. People thought he was damn good...and he was.

[ryanman]

The reality is that the majority of the British public would say we are shit at sport. The general attitute is far too negative.
A few stats -
The most f1 drivers titles of any nation,
Football team ranked 7th (of 21
Rugby team that has reached last two world cup finals
Numerous boxing world champs
4th in medal table at Olympics.
Cricket team that has won 2 of the last 3 Ashes.
By far the dominant force in track cycling.

Not to mention the world beaters we have in squash, triathlon, darts, snooker, swimming etc etc.

I'm not saying Britian is the most successful sporting nation, but we are far better than the miserable, negative British public would say.
For example, Australia are our main sporting rivals, now if you asked the british public who was the better sporting nation id say 80% would say Australia. Yet we have beat them in last two rugby world cups, beat them in 2 of last 3 Ashes, beat them at 2008 Olympics. (im not mentioning football here as they don't reallt take it seriously). I could list loads of sports that the British beat them at, yet the only sports you could make a case for them are rugby, cricket and swimming. Ive already shown how the first two are debateable, so that leaves swimming. And we can give them that.

[El Kabong]

....until he fought someone world class and dangerous and then he got "ruined". So we're back to square one, only in Hatton's comeback, he didn't get injured so he didn't end up like Jeff Lacy

[BIG H]

comparing hatton to lacy

Hatton got beat by the 2 best fighters of the last 15 years. Lacy got beat by jermain taylor

Who in turn beat one of the greatest Middleweights of all time twice in his own weight class. Your point being? Lacy has only lost to Calzaghe, Taylor, and Roy Jones Jr. Two hall of famers and one guy who beat a Hall Of Famer and the greatest in his weight division(or top three) twice and he lost to Taylor and Roy after his shoulder injury and he never looked the same since that injury either. Hattons excuse is what? The ring post ruined him?

So I don't see what you're getting at

Erm, i'm not sure Hatton needs to make excuses for his 4 'world' titles. So he wasn't the best fighter in the world. but i don't think anyone really ever thought he was. People thought he was damn good...and he was.

Yup - Good post

[JonesJrMayweather]

Of course I exagerated, but Jeff Lacy was an OK fighter, I think he could have done very well had he not gotten injured.....what's Ricky's excuse?

Too many beers.

comparing hatton to lacy

Hatton got beat by the 2 best fighters of the last 15 years. Lacy got beat by jermain taylor



Love the man or hate him ricky still deserves to be remembered as a great fighter and he`ll go down in boxing folklore for years to come not just for his succeses in the ring but the fanbase and acceptance no other fighter has ever received outside the ring.

Is their a single other fighter in boxing history that has managed to cross continents with an army of 35 thousand fans at his side willing to roar him on to victory??

That's ironic..considering the topic..

you must tell yourself that hatton lost to the best two fighters of the last 15 years in order justify over hyping him in the first place.

PBF and PAC are good but unfortunately for them the last 15 years would include prime fighters such as Mosley, RJJ, OSCAR, TIto, a still very good Sweet PEA, James Toney etc...

And second part of that is funny, Lacy lost to JC the man that only beat everybody he's faced, then to Jermain taylor who ended the longest MW defense streak by beating hopkins TWICE.

Hatton got knocked out could in his prime, at his best weight by a blown up featherweight.

[Andre]

Not that is matters at all, but I was wondering how many of the 35,000 of Rickys fans were Man City fans that jumped on the band wagon and how many were just fellow countrymen from other places?

[oakleyno1]

im from brighton and made the trip

[oakleyno1]

and was sitting with about 4 other people who had travelled about 100 miles, so id say a fair few!

[oakleyno1]

calzaghe gets no columns because compared to hatton & most others he has the personality of a worm - and he really does imo lol, i love watching him fight and he has the heart and guts of a lion! but listning to the things he says is more than a tad boring!

[BIG H]

lol... lyle, if the UK went overboard with Ricky Hatton then the US put on concrete shoes and wrapped chains around itself before diving into the atlantic over Jeff lacy...

Of course I exagerated, but Jeff Lacy was an OK fighter, I think he could have done very well had he not gotten injured.....what's Ricky's excuse?

I actually think had Lacy been brought along at a more sensible pace he could've gone far. I really believe that Calzaghe ruined him and I said at the end of that fight, that's it for Lacy, noway he recovers from that. Calzaghe had been a World Chapion for 4 years before Lacy was even a pro. The Lacy that fought Robin Reid is not the Lacy of today - Shame!