Hatton to get $10,000,000 new 3 fight HBO deal if he beats Castillo

It simple economics Dunk. This is the last fight of his HBO contract. Hatton is one of the world's most exciting fighters(and he's an endearing and down to earth personality) and HBO want to retain his services. They are prepared to pay more than the competition for Ricky to ply his labour on their channel rather than someone else's. It's not so much that he deserves it,it's just the way the world works in so far as most of us will try to obtain the best deal for our labour, whatever job we do.

Clearly HBO will have some input into who he will fight against. He can't just fight three bums and take the money!! This was the main reason he moved fought Collazo at 147 rather han Rabah at 140.

 

Bull himself would want this deal, so his buddy Amir can buy him something nice.

 

He deserves it

 

Where did you find out about that?

 

news of the world reported it yesterday

 

i think that's a pretty good post

 

You can't seriously put Hatton in the same bracket as Phillips and Douglas. Hatton was flying through the division with exciting performances which was not happening with Phillips or Douglas. And Douglas lost in his first defence

 

I think its just the yanks being daft again sure Hatton is a good fighter but $10M for 3 fights??? They do the same with everything look at David Beckham hes 32 and way past his best so the americans are giving him a 5 year contract worth £128M!!!

 

I dont think 10m for his next 3 fights is so far off the mark, he has to be one of the most marketable fighters in the world, his casual following is second to none in the UK and providing they can get him the fights (and not maussa types) then it'll be money well spent. Should the Castillo fight live up to its potential a rematch would be a certainty.

 

What about the re showing of the Urango fight on BBC , surely there is a good chance that , that surpassed that .

Which really would say a lot if the re showing of one fight a week later on terrestrial is higher than anything he's ever got on Satellite .

 

The case for Hatton being worth a $10,000,000 contract is that boxing is a free market and run as a business, so he obviously is worth $10,000,000 to HBO or they wouldn't pay it.

 

No other fighter in the UK has a better casual following than ricky. When he fights all sorts of boxing fans come out of the woodwork. 20,000 people crammed into the MEN to watch him fight the likes of virches. 8,000 flying to Vegas.

I'd say he was just ahead of Calzaghe in the UK, although joe's move to ITV certainarly raised his stock. makes you wonder how big Ricky would be should he perform on ITV!

Also, I'll wager he's had more than 350,000 before he went PPV ?!?! Where di you get the figures from?

 

many are, but many aren't. I was in the local boozer only last night and 3 or 4 people mentioned the Hatton fight to me. Not one of them would ever mention Nuumbembe Anderson, or Moore Macklin. Another friend of mine who has near zero interest in boxing is having a group of mates around his house for the fight.

 

hell yeah. :yep

the maussa and collazo fights were exciting.

despite what u thought of the performances.

 

i reckon if hatton fought a de la hoya or a mayweather he could fill the 76000 capacity old trafford.