Ricky Hatton V Junior Witter - Prime for Prime @ Light Welterweight

Hatton on points i dont think he could KO witter, but hatton is up inside all day long....hatton comfortable decision 116-112

 

What/When/Was Witter's prime?

Running away from Judah or getting floored by Bradley?

 

you imagine though if a young bradley got up inside on witter imagine what a bulldog like a young prime hatton would do?

 

You did say prime, if hatton walks through tszyu's right hand, i'm sure he can walk through witter, who imo just has above average power, and i like hatton's power over witter's.....witter i think makes it the full 12 though.

 

This is the problem. That 14 KO stretch was against a string of guys who could noto do anything more than pull their pants up. I honestly don't think any of those fighters would have made the world top 50. When he finally took a step up in class after about 5 years, the KOs mysteriously dried up, with 4 straight distance fights against Ndou, Kotelnik, Lynes and Corley. IMHO Witter's power is no more than decent at world level. He is an excellent bully of fighters who are clearly out of their depth. However, it was the step up in class which has been responsible for his difficulties over the past 4 years.

If they fought, Hatton bullies him around the ring to a 116-112 decision as Jeff says. Witter would probably take some rounds as Magee did with his sharp work and I do factor in that Hatton has had some problems with awkward southpaws. However, I don't think Witter's workrate is consistant enough to match the Hatton of that period. His crafty defence would take it the distance, but Hatton would be able to work him over with heavy body shots.

As regards holding them in lower esteem because they never faced each other, the whole episode will rate no more than a foot note in Hatton's history. He has the PPV megafights with Mayweather and Pac, the wins over p4p top 10 fighters like Tszyu and Castillo, the successful trips to America versus other good title holders like Malignaggi, Collazo and Urango to look back on. By contrast, Witter will be held in lower esteem because Hatton would have been the best name on his record by an absolute mile.

 

I'm not sure about that. If we leave aside the Witter fight for a moment, the only guy he ever fought who could crack at world level put him on his ass twice.

 

I think Witter has shown he can 'survive' in a losing encounter and therefore Hatton would have to settle for a points win.

Hatton would be WAY too fast, busy and relentless for Witter though and would more or less shut him out.


I very much doubt people will look back on Hattons career and reflect on this fight.

Hatton has fought (and beaten) so many men who achieved more than Witter. Witter has only fought one guy remotely of Hatton's class and he set his career back years in doing so.

They shouldn't even really be mentioned in the same breath, the disparity is so large.

 

I'll give it a couple of hours before backward boy is all over this thread spouting his usual array of crap!

 

Witter stops him.

 

it will be remembered that this fight didn't happen and why, because Wicky couldn't find his balls and was scared of losing to Witter. The excuses changed down the years, but this underlying fact didn't. The excuses became laughable and exposed Hatton for the 2-faced fake he is.
I pick Witter by TKO......similar to the way Pacman got his 'TKO' over Hatton
still can't believe that is officially a TKO and not a KO.

 

I can't see how Witter wins.

His power at B class is very overrated, he never stopped or hurt any of his best opponents, Harris aside.

He ain't gonna be landing regularly on Hatton, because he doesn't have the workrate to do it.

Witter takes rounds off and never really fights for 3 minutes, so he'll lose plenty of rounds to Hatton.

Bradley beat him with pressure and he's not as good as Hatton, nor is he as relentless as Hatton.