Hatton Officially Returning in 2010 at Light-Welterweight

Yup.

 

Don't buy into that crap mate.

 

I dont think he owes people who have followed him anything to be fair, he's been in some great fights, great occasions etc etc. It's not like he's been making supporters travel to Vegas to watch him fight bums and what have you.

 

Khan or JMM would seem to be the logical choices.

I don't think JMM should be fighting above 135 but he's at the end of his career and I don't begrudge him another pay-day - he'd be the favourite too, smaller man or not.

A Khan fight would sell itself and with his chin issues, you never really know what's going to happen. At this stage, I'd favour him over Hatton too.

Good thing he's not coming back at 147 though - any of the top fighters there would eat him up.

 

I would actually favour Hatton more over Marquez than Khan at this stage as strange as that sounds.

 

Toffee Jack - Thats exactly how I see it mate. Khan will absoultely **** Hatton. Marquez will only beat him late on :hey

 

This is madness.
He is fat, unfit and greedy. Also, on the evidence of the last time we saw him in the ring, he is now an accident waiting to happen. What damage does it do for our sport if Ricky is seriously hurt? They will say, look what boxing did to Hatton. The truth is that if something goies wrong, or Hatton is blowing bubbles in 10 years, or diets like a mad man and winds up in the state of Paul Ingle, it will be Hatton who has done it to himself. The vast majority of people who properly know the sport say he should get out. His best was against Tszyu, and since then he has made a fortune even though his performances have declined. Only ego and avarice propel him now and the backslappers who surround him anbd tell him what he wants to hear.

Which for the supposedly working class man of the people is very, very sad. He has already gone to the well too often. Now he could fall in the bloody thing and never come out.

I really hope he and his fans read this.

 

By a large it takes a least a couple of KO loses to convince a fighter he should retire, its the nature of the sport. If he wants to give it one last go then fair enough, he won't be the first or the last boxer to think he's got more left than he really has and had to find out the hard way.

 

Best of luck to him if this is what he wants. I still don't think he's totally shot but obviously well past prime. My preferred opponent would be Marquez and I hope it truly is one fight and then retirement. I think that if he wins he'll want to continue.

 

So what was Mayweather. And what was Pacquiao. That body on the canvas, unconscious, was Ricky. To blame the training camp (as he did with Billy Before that, is just plain dellusional.

 

Ishy you know it pal. Imagine if he does what Floyd couldn't and stops Marquez. Imagine him saying "Right ok thats me then now".

Will he **** he'll be running his mouth about Floyd again :-(

 

Exactly mate, I just can't see him walking away if he pulls of a win like that.

 

Pacquiao was the KO he was debating retiring over, Mayweather was a fight he lost. It happens in boxing, out of the 2 fighters, one will lose and quite possibly by KO. If the sight of unconscious boxers distresses you so much then you're watching the wrong sport.

I think retirement is the wise choice, but if he wants to fight on then he's hardly the worse example of a top boxer wanting to carry on a bit too long is he? He has 2 KO loses to 2 of the best fighters of his generation sandwiching a comprehensive win over his number 1 contender.