Junior Witter Still Fighting

Just looked at witters resume it is pretty decent a few good euro and good domestic fighters and a yank or two aswel. He seemd to just end for him after bradley (who knew how good he would be) even though he did fight alexander

 

Witter was class in his prime i reckon he had a decent shout of beaten Hatton it would have been a huge UK fight surprised it never happend

 

At his peak he was a good fighter,in many respects a bit of a cut price Naz!

 

Good slick fighter style wise,many would turn him down as made even good fighters look bad at his peak,like his stablemate from back in the day Herol Graham.

Like Graham he wasn't a big ticket seller either.

 

At his best he could have really poked a hole in the Hatton bubble. It's easy to see why he felt that fight was his destiny, and why he got so bitter about it never materializing. He didn't have the stuff to hit those heights by any other means than exploiting what, in fairness, would have been a huge stylistic advantage over the Hitman.

 

Haha 5 deluded fans, thats true

 

Not active enough to ever get a decision over Hatton IMO. He'd have prob repeatedly switched stance as if that alone would win him the round and then cry robbery after being thoroughly out hustled.

Hatton had greatly underrated foot speed and would have cut the ring off putting pressure on Witter that he wouldn't be able to deal with. A green Bradley showed how it would have gone down.

 

Green perhaps in terms of big stage experience, but he was 21-0 and coming off a win over Miguel Vazquez (though granted, nobody back then knew aught about Bradley, or Vazquez) - and 2008 was a bit late in the Hatton vs. Witter drama, kind of like the equivalent of 2012ish in the Mayweather vs. Pacquiao saga.

Hatton vs. Witter was bandied about for the entire first half of the decade, with talk of it peaking around 2005 (when, arguably, so did both their careers) with Hatton famously beating Tszyu and then unifying with Maussa and Witter having a very good year of his own, beating N'Dou in a world eliminator, then Kotelnik to become Euro champ, and then growing his belt collection with Lynes' Brit & Commonwealth - and 2006, when Hatton moved up and squeaked by Collazo to pick up a welterweight title, and Witter joined him in the world titlist peerage claiming the vacant WBC 140lb title against Corley.

In 2005 & 2006 it reached a fever pitch and on the whole most, if you look back at contemporary postings on every forum that existed, saw it about 50-50.

 

Witter was good to watch, with an unusual style.

 

All duly noted but in think with hindsight it was never a 50/50 fight and Hatton 2005 was a better fighter than the young tim Bradley was that beat Witter. Ricky would have put the pressure on and junior wouldn't have been able to hack the pace. That's my opinion.

Prime ricky vs Timmy that established himself as the man at 140 is a much more interesting fight for me and could have been great.

 

Herol Graham once pulled in over 7000 at Bramall Lane for a non-title fight.

 

Lol at the idiots saying he would've beaten Hatton, and that it would've been a huge fight. All Hatton fights were big on his name alone, Witter would've brought nothing to the table apart from the fact that he was also British.

Witter's finest moment was falling out of the ring in Prizafighter. http://youtu.be/VNaC6Zs_VaA

 

Seemed likeable enough but personally I couldn't stand watching him fight.