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Ricky Hatton: ‘I wouldn’t call it the 50th if Floyd Mayweather fights Conor McGregor’ (Source: Boxing News)

Hatton stated, “I wouldn’t call it a 50th if he fights McGregor and that’s no disrespect to Conor. Every time a boxer goes in UFC, he doesn’t do anything. If he [McGregor] goes in boxing I think the same thing would happen... I just don’t think it’s a good idea. If it does happen, I wouldn’t call it Mayweather’s 50th.”

In my opinion, if Money May does end up defeating Conor McGregor, it would have to be counted as a legitimate victory, enhancing his professional record to 50-0, because he would have competed in an officially-sanctioned boxing match where Floyd faced a licensed opponent possessing an ability level that would be at least on a par with a journeyman.

Thoughts?

I think it's going to be a decent summer.

Hopefully no sanctioning body actually sanctions this circus show mismatch.

If does happen. Doubt it will be a exhibition.

I agree, this should not count as a professional fight, McGregor has no pro record nor amateur as far as I am aware.

However, if a local commission licenses him, it will be counted as a pro fight.

klitoris wrote:Hopefully no sanctioning body actually sanctions this circus show mismatch.

WBC will get involved. They always do...

Hatton says boxers who go into UFC don't do anything, but Holly Holm did. He's just a hater. I'm so glad his career as a boxer of excessive holding is over.

Can you imagine the match, extremely well paid match, with tennis player against table tennis player ?

It will be counted if they fight. It shouldn't even be allowed to go ahead but money talks. It's fuckin farcical. If Floyds coming back he should be fighting a legitimate contender. There's plenty options there and he'd still be able to name his price. It doesn't need to be McGregor to earn him a fortune.

It's a complete circus act

Ray Mercer...

Well, if it's sanctioned as a pro fight, it is Mayweather's 50th. I understand where Hatton is coming from, but he is technically wrong.

Impractical Poster wrote:Well, if it's sanctioned as a pro fight, it is Mayweather's 50th. I understand where Hatton is coming from, but he is technically wrong.

I can see why boxers might say that, but as you say, if it's sanctioned it's a boxing match.

Boxing Prospect wrote:Ray Mercer...

Mercer didn't really do too much. He lost to Kimbo Slice and KOed Tim Sylvia in the opening seconds of the fight.

TheDarkDestroyer wrote:

Impractical Poster wrote:Well, if it's sanctioned as a pro fight, it is Mayweather's 50th. I understand where Hatton is coming from, but he is technically wrong.

I can see why boxers might say that, but as you say, if it's sanctioned it's a boxing match.

Yeah... People let their emotions get in the way too much. It's like those who don't count Ward's win over Kovalev when forming a divisional ranking or P4P list. I thought Kov won as well, but to be fair, I feel you have to accept Ward's win.

Impractical Poster wrote:

TheDarkDestroyer wrote:

Impractical Poster wrote:Well, if it's sanctioned as a pro fight, it is Mayweather's 50th. I understand where Hatton is coming from, but he is technically wrong.

I can see why boxers might say that, but as you say, if it's sanctioned it's a boxing match.

Yeah... People let their emotions get in the way too much. It's like those who don't count Ward's win over Kovalev when forming a divisional ranking or P4P list. I thought Kov won as well, but you have to go with Ward's win.

Yep, I had Ward edging it and he got the nod in the books so gets the win and the rankings. It was a very close fight, I can't wait for the second.

this is a nonsense fight in which floyd
would hold back for a few rounds to
make it look more competitive. you
think there is fake news, wait for fake
boxing.

I have no idea where to start with mcgregor at boxing. He can't be put at a level, but very broadly speaking there's British level fighters more than confident of getting him out of there. Now if mayweather was to fight bradley skeete or lower, he'd be in for all kinds of stick, but cos mcgregor is a draw he gets a pass of sorts, from some.

It's technical a bout if sanctioned, but a joke of a way to get to 50

RScarf1 wrote:Hatton says boxers who go into UFC don't do anything, but Holly Holm did. He's just a hater. I'm so glad his career as a boxer of excessive holding is over.

Hatton was an inside fighter. Clinching is the last thing he wants to do when he's there

Unfortunately for Ricky Hatton it's not up to him whether or not it'd be Floyd's 50th fight or not if it went down. Floyd will get plenty of criticism if he gets the 50-0 mark that way. Not that it really matters. The whole reaching 50-0 thing is such a big deal just to see if you could surpass Rocky Marciano's achievement, and Floyd surpassed Marciano's achievements years ago. It's all gravy from here.

gilgamesh wrote:Unfortunately for Ricky Hatton it's not up to him whether or not it'd be Floyd's 50th fight or not if it went down. Floyd will get plenty of criticism if he gets the 50-0 mark that way. Not that it really matters. The whole reaching 50-0 thing is such a big deal just to see if you could surpass Rocky Marciano's achievement, and Floyd surpassed Marciano's achievements years ago. It's all gravy from here.

I think it does matter to a degree. At least fight a top level opponent or what's the point, in a boxing sense? He could fight another 50 domestic level opponents and do 100-0 if he wanted, but that doesn't make him the greatest

Chavez well cleared them numbers anyway. I like floyd he's an incredible boxer. But history could remember him even better if he did a couple things different

Ossyrules wrote:

gilgamesh wrote:Unfortunately for Ricky Hatton it's not up to him whether or not it'd be Floyd's 50th fight or not if it went down. Floyd will get plenty of criticism if he gets the 50-0 mark that way. Not that it really matters. The whole reaching 50-0 thing is such a big deal just to see if you could surpass Rocky Marciano's achievement, and Floyd surpassed Marciano's achievements years ago. It's all gravy from here.

I think it does matter to a degree. At least fight a top level opponent or what's the point, in a boxing sense? He could fight another 50 domestic level opponents and do 100-0 if he wanted, but that doesn't make him the greatest

Chavez well cleared them numbers anyway. I like floyd he's an incredible boxer. But history could remember him even better if he did a couple things different

Floyd's not going to be the greatest fighter of all time unless he does absolutely unthinkable things in the next few years. He'd have to move up and beat GGG to even get into a serious conversation about being THE BEST EVER which he so loves to claim. There's no way in hell that's going to happen so there's no way in hell he's ever going to be considered the best ever by anything other than his nuthugging fanboys.

He's established himself as one of the 20 greatest that's ever laced up a pair of gloves in my opinion, which given the extremely rich history of our sport is pretty damn amazing in and of itself.

A win over Conor McGregor won't raise his legacy any for the die hards, but the 50-0 mark will still elevate him in the minds of casual fans just because it looks so pretty on paper, and most casual fans know Conor McGregor better than they know Robert Guerrero or Andre Berto or people like that so that'll mean more to them because they just don't know the sport that well. They just know names.

gilgamesh wrote:

Ossyrules wrote:

gilgamesh wrote:Unfortunately for Ricky Hatton it's not up to him whether or not it'd be Floyd's 50th fight or not if it went down. Floyd will get plenty of criticism if he gets the 50-0 mark that way. Not that it really matters. The whole reaching 50-0 thing is such a big deal just to see if you could surpass Rocky Marciano's achievement, and Floyd surpassed Marciano's achievements years ago. It's all gravy from here.

I think it does matter to a degree. At least fight a top level opponent or what's the point, in a boxing sense? He could fight another 50 domestic level opponents and do 100-0 if he wanted, but that doesn't make him the greatest

Chavez well cleared them numbers anyway. I like floyd he's an incredible boxer. But history could remember him even better if he did a couple things different

Floyd's not going to be the greatest fighter of all time unless he does absolutely unthinkable things in the next few years. He'd have to move up and beat GGG to even get into a serious conversation about being THE BEST EVER which he so loves to claim. There's no way in hell that's going to happen so there's no way in hell he's ever going to be considered the best ever by anything other than his nuthugging fanboys.

He's established himself as one of the 20 greatest that's ever laced up a pair of gloves in my opinion, which given the extremely rich history of our sport is pretty damn amazing in and of itself.

A win over Conor McGregor won't raise his legacy any for the die hards, but the 50-0 mark will still elevate him in the minds of casual fans just because it looks so pretty on paper, and most casual fans know Conor McGregor better than they know Robert Guerrero or Andre Berto or people like that so that'll mean more to them because they just don't know the sport that well. They just know names.

Yeah I agree with all that stuff

And he calls himself TBE

RandomUsername wrote:Shameful how Ricky Hatton ducked Oscar De La Hoya.

Ricky Hatton also ducked Junior Witter. They were both in the same division, from the same country, and were the top two junior welterweights in 2007. I hope Hatton is never inducted into the Hall of Fame.