Gavin Rees vs Ricky Hatton Plans

It's a fight to build him back up, os it makes sense.

Lewis took on an easy opponent after his first loss.
Frazier did afer losing to Foreman.
Mike Tyson did after the loss to Douglas.
Louis took on a fairly easy bout, albeit to a big name after the first Schmeling fight.
Throughout his career at the top Henry Armstrong did, except a controversial loss to Zivic.
Robinson did after a lot of his fights. See in particular the loss to Giardello and then a with a less than 50% win ratio.

History shows that the majority of top class boxers took on an easy opponent right after losing. Hatton is no exception, so don't be biased about it.

 

Everybody calm down. Ricky's gonna fight a bum. Everyone fights a bum after a loss. So lets all get over it.

 

well it' not exactly true that everybody fights a bum after their first loss, but never mind. The annoying thing is that he's been running from Witter for a long long time.
It's one thing to lose to the p4p best or even a top rated (but past it) guy like Tszyu....but losing to Witter would smash open the whole Hatton myth.
It's obvious some of you are still criminally underrating Witter 'he only throws 20 punches a round', 'he's boring'.........even if that's true, does that mean he is not elite? No, it doesn't. He's beat 4 top 10 140lbers in the last 2-3 years. Hatton knows he's very vulnerable to the cagey, power countering style of Witter.
The argument that you think Hatton would demolish Witter is irrelevant, pure conjecture. I think Witter stops him but that's irrelevent too.

The point is we can't be proven right or wrong as Hatton has chickened out for years.

 

Witter maybe underrated as you say, but you must agree that only some of his fights have been eye catching for the public, like the display against vivian harris. The only reason my typing as not been to the academic standard last night was because when I am doing essays i proof read it and make sure it is correct, also I was knackered last night so that can explain it and I have had the flu for the last 10 days.

 

how many hatton fights have been eye catching for the public?

 

Quite a few, can't remember them all? Just on the flipside would junior witter if he was fighting floyd had created such a buzz on both sides of the atlantic?

 

What a crap matchup. Hatton has very few fights left in him and they're talking about Gavin Rees? Pathetic. Hatton doesn't need a comeback fight - if he is as good as he is supposed to be then he should have left this kind of fight long behind him. Am totally disappointed at Hatton and his team that they'd even consider this fight.

 

no because he hasn't been as handled as well as hatton. warren fed witter to the sharks in his 17th fight against the then unbeaten zab judah. hatton in his 17th fight was taking on the mighty 10-2, leoncio garces!!!!!

if witter had gotten better management then who knows. warren and co new what they were doing creating this 'working class lad, city fan' buzz around hatton whilst bringing him along painfully slowly. witter wasn't given a second thought.

 

Well at the moment its paper talk, mainly from warrens column. I mean the mail are saying it could be torres, holt or hopkins and they are not mentioning rees.

 

One warren as never been is promoter, it as always been Hennessey. I must admit yes some of hattons fight have been dull affairs such as urango and I was their. Also he'd been a city fan before warren ever got hold of him, and I have been to hyde and it is definately working class.

 

Can't we just agree that both Witter and Hatton have had their stormers and their stinkers? I'd rather watch Hatton-Tszyu than Witter-N'Dou, and I'd rather watch Witter-Harris than Hatton-Urango.

Put them together and I think Witter would do his "aggressive slickster with power" act and Hatton would do his "aggressive swarmer with pressure", and it would be a great scrap regardless of who wins. Would Witter's power tell and make it a classic puncher vs. swarmer fight? Would Hatton's pressure overwhelm Witter and make it a classic swarmer vs. boxer fight? Inquiring minds want to know, and to know for sure the two of them have to fight each other. This means Hatton needs to waste less time fighting midgets.

 

:good Spot on!

 

hennessy first promoted witter back in 2004, against oscar hall. before then he had mainly been promoted by sports network.

urango, yep. what about collazo? kostya? JLC? all full of illegal tactics and tons of clinching, the guy is horrible to watch.

yes he is all those things, but warren and his management team used it to their advantage and made him out to be the working class hero which helped the public warm to him. you cannot read a piece on hatton, or listen to a disscussion about him without that stuff being mentioned. when was witter ever promoted like this? ****, when was calzaghe ever promoted like hatton?

 

He's horrible to watch well JLC was doing as much holding as hatton was. See earlier on I was being diplomatic, but did u see witters tile fights agianst Chop, Chop it was that boring I fell asleep and I was at the event, also moura who he should have took out in five rounds, how he deserved a shot i'll never know!