Hatton v Lazcano sold 55,000 tickets and loads of people missed out on a ticket. Lazcano was a no-name, IIRC his picture wasn't even on the poster.
Slightly different economic times. Hatton was fighting at 'home' and the fight was a 10pm at night. Different proposition fighting in London in a stadium that can hold 100,000 while the economy is utterly ****ed.
Very true, but it's not as if ALL of Hatton's fans are from Manchester/up North, there'd be a fair few down South as well. I think most Hattton fans could shell out a few hundred quid for tickets, transport to London etc. Not as if they'll be spending the thousands they'd need to if they were going to Vegas.
Nah, its not about Hatton that fight looks like its gone but in view of this weeks happenings Roach clearly isn't the all powerful figure he likes to paint himself within Pacs camp. If Pac takes a "soft touch" next, people can hardly blame Roach for vetoing the tough opponents like Margo, its clearly down to Pac and his Pinoy crowd who he fights these days. To say Pac will fight anyone but Roach won't let him is a nice little cop from Pacs (and his fans) point of view.
I can't see what all the fuss is about Bradley either. Let him put a couple more decent wins in, if Hatton beat him now he'd get about was much credit as Calzaghe gets for Lacy.
I certainly don't want to see Hatton fight Marquez, tbh the pac fight would be one of these celebrity fights that happen all the time nowadays like Pac DLH, two names fighting because they're names, no actual impact on whatever division they fight in because win or lose a guy like pac isn't going to stay there. If Pac beat Hatton then off he goes to welter to fight Mayweather. I've been moaning about Hatton fighting guys half his size for years. I'd much rather he unified the division again. IMO that counts for a lot more than overpowering a dwarf. Bradley, Holt or Torres for me. I just don't agree with the line that says Hatton doesn't have to fight light welters any more because he beat Tszyu before the younger guys were around.That line was ok for Lewis because nobody came along after he'd beaten Holy, Golota et al save the Klitschko's and he beat the better of the two. Hatton's got a few good guys who, while they may not have the names or the meaningless p4p tag attatched are nevertheless credible challengers.