Billy Graham reportedly suing Hatton

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  1. scrap

    scrap Boxing Addict Full Member

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    This smells of Dishonesty, who lives in a House like this
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  2. Dibbs

    Dibbs Active Member Full Member

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    As someone said you pay your bills, look at the boxer/promoter scenario of Calzaghe/Warren, Calzaghe needing to enforce legal action to get what he is owed which is exactly what he should be doing. Graham still done a job for Hatton, he should have also been paid for the bouts prior to his dismissal, Hatton put business first, friendship second, and that's the way Graham should play it, loyalty doesn't come into it now, it's business.
     
  3. doylexxx

    doylexxx Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    roach got 400 000 for the de lahoya fight, the fact is that there only so much that a trainer can actually do and a vast amount of fighters large purses have more to do with the fighters level of popularity than anything else.

    Also fighters and trainers traditionally dont have contracts so its all verbal, nothing can stand up.

    Anybody remember when Pac fough Larios in Philipines???

    ****** Fortune was Freddies second back then and Roach couldnt go due to Oscar I think ,

    yeah well Fortune took the cash a couple of hundred grand meant for freddie and just kept it and went home to Austrailia

    Hopefully Moorer dont do the same to him lol
     
  4. doylexxx

    doylexxx Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Why is the word J-U-S-T-I N blocked???
     
  5. trotter

    trotter Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Well that's the first problem isn't it

    In a business like this you do NOTHING on a verbal basis if you've any sense

    That said, if Graham can prove he'd always been paid 10% perhaps a court would accept that as a contractual term

    And if he'd always got 10% and nothing was said to suggest otherwise before the fight, he should get his 10%, morally
     
  6. Brummy1976

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    Ray hatton gets toooo much grief.Cant ricky over rule everyone and PAY THE MAN. Tight ****
     
  7. Betty Swollocks

    Betty Swollocks James 'Lights Out' Toney Full Member

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    exactly. It's also clear how he treats the guy who helped him so much, by letting his new scumbag trainer talk shite about Graham while sat next to him.
    The conensus view seems to be that Graham is a stand-up guy. So who is the problem/parasite in all this? Not hard to work it out now is it.
     
  8. fatcity

    fatcity Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Hatton's true colors show.A man of the people-bull****.:-(
     
  9. DGLASS JAW

    DGLASS JAW Active Member Full Member

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    dont think billy stands a chances ...just a verbal agreement ...no contract....the hattons are greedy ****ers.
     
  10. NO MAS

    NO MAS Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    In the words of a well known promoter from the 70's and 80's................... If you want loyalty go and buy a dog..... :yep:yep
     
  11. safc1990

    safc1990 Goodbye Bolo :( Full Member

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    Agreed
     
  12. doylexxx

    doylexxx Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    graham got 500 000 for the floyd fight, talk about being overpaid
     
  13. Danny

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    I hope, but that, you do not mean Ray Hatton is any more computer literate or more admistrative minded than Ricky, because I find that very hard to believe!
     
  14. doylexxx

    doylexxx Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Running pubs and other business probably means that he is far better actually,.
     
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