Who knows when DLH started coking up. Hatton was definitely ALWAYS coking up! It likely helped him lose weight, since he was always blowing up between fights. The answer as to who wins is obvious. The cross dresser would have stopped Hatton inside of 6 at either weight.
DLH would knock the shit out of Hatton at either weight That fast left hook? forget about it... Hatton gets blasted
What makes you so sure about Hatton? IMO, Ricky was fine / clean when he was training. It was after boxing his problems began. As far as I know heavy coke use has the opposite effect, you gain weight. Hatton was tough at 140, Oscar UD.
Lets not go crazy.. DLH that fougt PAC was in BAAAAD shape.. That said...a in shape DLH.....? I don't care if DLH was 14o and Hatton was 840!!
Hatton wasn't very good, I'd pick any version of DLH to beat him. The shot to shit version of Oscar still performed better against Pac than Hatton did
Hoya would dress in crotchless panties and fishnets and dress Hatton up like a Christopher St. Gay Bar Leather Boy in assless chaps and mount him, putting it in DRY while pointing at JOE CORTEZ and then waving at his own ass and saying "put it in me while I fuck him" and Cortez would say "I'm fair but I'm FIRM" and comply with the request in front of a horrified audience of Manchester Shitty FC supporters
let the record reflect that delahoya never had a legitimate victory over anyone as good as a prime ricky hatton
I don't much like Ricky Hatton's chances against Quartey/Whitaker/Trinidad... Hell, I'm not thrilled with his chances against Wilfredo Rivera, either
Neil, I know you hate Hoya as much as I do, but you can't believe that Hatton's chin is holding up all night under DLH's left hook. Oscar stretches him at some point.
hatton never had a victory over anyone as good as a prime DLH either. but DLH beat better fighters than hatton did.. hatton's best win was a faded tszyu
delahoya is the king of mythical matchups now i guess. i made no prediction, i just stated a fact. does anyone dispute my claim? if so, who?
Vargas was a better fighter than Hatton, IMO He didn't have as a good (long, anyway) a career because he was unlucky to be around with guys like Trinidad and DLH there, but if he had the same ho-hum level of comp Hatton did, he would have lasted a lot longer... He couldn't beat Trinidad or Oscar De La Hoya And neither would Ricky Hatton As far as I am concerned, Hoya beat Trinidad clearly and the Quartey fight is by no means a clear-cut robbery... it could have been scored either way and the 12th round was enormous for Hoya (this is, again, another guy Ricky Hatton would take a beating from) ... I thought Pete deserved the decision against Hoya, but how would Hatton have fared against that same Whitaker? Hoya dominated Wilfredo Rivera, anybody like Hatton to beat him? I'm a Hoya detractor and I was never a fan, but he's clearly on another level from a guy like Hatton, who was a decent, serviceable champ
I'd LOVE to be able to say that Hatton would beat that phony, cross dressing, coke snorting cock sucker. But it simply wouldn't happen. For ONE, Oscar's jab would cut Hatton's face to ribbons. For TWO, Ricky would walk into a big hook, and end up on his back.