Again with numbers ("ancient" Mosley). Mosley went on to give Cotto hell and destroy Margarito.Ambling Alp II wrote:Tszyu was way past it when he fought Hatton. That version wasn't better than Patterson, Dorin, Ward. Yes age is a number. Virtually every fighter is worse at the age of 35 than they were in their late 20s. A fighter's reflexes, spped, stamina declines as he gets older. This isn't exactly a new discovery.Rover wrote:Patterson was a super featherweight; I have no doubt Hatton would've beaten him.Ambling Alp II wrote:Tysyu was 35 and past it when he fought Hatton. Yet this is by far the win that people talk about the most regarding Hatton's career. That speaks volumes right there.
If Hatton fought Patterson twice,Ward 3x, Dorin, he would not have run the table. Only a disutable loss to Ward in their first fight prevented Gatti from doing that.
Gatti was a good and at times very good fighter. Like Hatton, he wasn't in the class of the really elite fighters.
However, Gatti fought many good fighters throughout his career. Sometimes they were for WBS titles and sometimes they were not. Sometimes he won and sometimes he lost.
Gatti was not a legend or anything like that. However, he does not deserve to be ripped so often. He went out of his way to take on serious competition (sometimes taking on good fighters multiple times). You can't say that about very many fighters in the last couple of decades.
Dorin was a light-punching lightweight; again, no doubt Hatton would've beaten him.
It speaks volumes that you cite these wins involving fighters who accomplished nothing at jr. welter.
And that leaves Ward. Again, I'd pick Hatton with confidence.
There wouldn't need to be three fights; I doubt there'd need to be two. Ricky by clear decision.
Tszyu>Patterson.
Tszyu>Dorin.
Tszyu>Ward.
It isn't even close.
And Tszyu looked very good in his prior fight v. Mitchell. Age is a number; just saying "he was 35" doesn't really say much. And that version of Tszyu was by far better than anyone Gatti ever beat.
And yes Gatti (anywhere near his prime) would have beaten Urango and Luis Collazo. An ancient Shane Mosley beat Collazo easily after Hatton barely beat Collazo.Collazo was a very ordinary fighter.
Let's talk about a different number--fights. Patterson had many more than Tszyu.
So you think Dorin would've been equal to the Tszyu that fought Hatton? That Ward would've? That Patterson would've?
Tszyu had looked just fine in his prior fight destroying Mitchell.
I'd love to see if anyone else here thinks that the Tszyu that fought Hatton wasn't better than Ward (who was...35! when he fought Gatti in 2002, BTW), Patterson and Dorin.