The Most Overrated Fighters in Boxing: Ricky Hatton & Antonio Margarito

[Smashing]

K dogg ..again well said..they are both great fighters..
i just feel Hatton will be the one to beat him if they meet

[K-DOGG]

K dogg ..again well said..they are both great fighters..
i just feel Hatton will be the one to beat him if they meet

Smashing...honestly, I agree with you. I give Ricky a very good chance to beat Mayweather. I could be wrong; but their styles seem made for one another ala Ali and Frazier.

I just want the fight made before one of them loses. It'll be feakin' HUGE.

[K-DOGG]

First off.....Your Dad is correct and is a smart man. Because people keep forgetting that people are human. Intimidation, Confidence, you name it can be different variables in a fight.

Someone might scare another person to death, and then beat them.

Oh and I really can't for the life of me understand why Margarito is considered "Overrated". That's absurd because I don't see universal P4P lists where he is ranked very high......I don't see him getting huge paydays against name fighters, I don't see people really eager to fight him.

He's Underrated, Ducked, and a guy nobody wants to get their wig split by. It's really that simple.

On Margarito...well said. 99.9% of the public have never heard of him, much less seen him fight.

[GreatestIam]

Shane Mosley would lost to most top 5's from junior welterweight to light middle IMO.
Shane is a boring fighter, the clock is ticking and he aint getting any younger.. if you ask me he's been out of his prime since his first loss.. Hatton would put on a much better fight with Mayweather than Mosley ever could, given the opportunity.

No way Shane V PBF would be much more competitve then a Hatton or Margarito fight, i mean Shane has fought and beaten bigger fighters and went the distance twice with what many people believe is a top 3 p4p fighter in Winky Wright, Honestly i would kind of favortie Shane in a PBF fight, and think that he would easily TKO Margarito and UD Hatton

[Rockin']

The great one returns. Bruised and battered he continues to wage his war.

Rockin'

[GreatestIam]

Ricky Hatton is underated in my book..
He doing everything right..He wins all his fights easily..he's off to the USA for the big fights, he's winning world titles, with every fight and moving between two weights to get the best fights he can. He has a great action packed style and always gives great value for money and proves all the doubters wrong on this board wrong after every fight..But they still keep doubting him..
He can do no more..
To top it all he has a great personality..He's a nice bloke..

He's been saying for years that we havn't seen the best of him yet,and he will get better.. the better his opposition gets.
To give him credit..thats exactly what has happened.

Even his bad fights where he has knocked his opponent out, he can be heard saying he was not happy with his performance.
How many fighters will be honest enough to say that?
...None!

I don't know of any other fighter that has won every fight (40)..without any of them being even close..
Not even close!!

And people sit there and say he's overated..

They say his overratted becuz he is, he has two quality wins over two quality opponents and thats it. He hasnt fought the big names that Mayweather has fought, he hasnt been in there with the opposition that Mayweather has and thats a fact man. Can you or anyone else HONESTLY say that Ricky would have destroyed Zab Judah or Outboxed him like PBF did no. Hatton has great skills and alot of potential but when i see him beat the JLC's the Chicos, the Gatti's thats when i wont say his overrated. His off to a great start but thats it a great start, i could go on and on, i mean look who his choose to fight his next fight against a paper champ, a guy whos only got his belt becuz it was vacated and he beat the bum who beat another bum to get it. Also Ricky has said things in the past that i think question his fighting charecter like that not being ready for PBF til 2007 what type of **** is that, if your not ready now you wont be ready ever.

[!!! Beowulf !!!]

No, it won't be stopped on cuts. Hatton's corner will stop it on cuts to save their fighter embarassment. For some reason or another, in Europe, quitting isn't a bad thing. The fans don't think any less of the fighter if he quits (see Vitali versus Byrd).

Au-revoir.

[mick66]

I would say that if you look at Hattons fights, he has totally dominated everyone that has come across, even Tszyu couldn't go 12 rounds with him.
To look at anyone else around at the moment to buck this trend and give Hatton a beating..I just can't see it happening at the moment.
However I do feel that PBF may be able to dance around and out box him for 12 rounds and scratch a decision. But I would still fancy Hatton against PBF.

Hatton should not think about fighting PBF for at least 2 or 3 more fights....

He needs to raise his profile before the big fights, otherwise the fights will not be as big as they should be..
Many boxing fans in the USA don't really know who Hatton is...to have the biggest fights before he is a known fighter is a waist of money..

Hatton is chasing the big fights now, but doing it in a sensible way. you've got to bring something to the table to get at the head of the queue for a big bucks fight..especially if some fighters don't want to fight you..

Hatton has said himself..he'd be gutted if he never got to fight PBF, and you got to believe him..Thats why he's come over to your side of the pond. I recon they had a few problems sorting out a fight for May, but the more he is known, the bigger the purse, the more tempting a fight with Hatton becomes.

I honestly believe, Hatton ,his father, Billy Graham and the team know exactly what they are doing..It's gonna be a great few years.

[bigdlb12]

well I am not sold on Hatton yet, Margarito gets my vote

[mayweather]

haha sweet article. i love having my points agreed with