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

He never really sat down on them though. If he planted his feet he would get a few more KO's as someone said earlier he had N'Dou badly hurt something you don't see often.

If Magee can put a charging hatton down i don't see why witter wouldn't be able too more accurate shots more power and stranger angles

 

It's fair to say that although he got put down by Eamonn Magee he was able to get hit without being too hurt unlike Mayweather and Pacquiao and even Laczano where you could see the effects punches were having on him.

Witter does have a unique attack but it can look pre-meditated at times and his workrate would have to be higher than would make him comfortable against Hatton.

A grudgematch wouldn't play out like a Lynes-Witter or a Hatton-Phillips.

Desire and workrate would play a bigger part in this fight than Witter finding angles to stop Hatton charging in at him.

The very best Ricky Hatton was more than capable of beating the best Junior Witter.

 

Can I have next week's lottery numbers now mystic TFFP?

 

No you can't

It's pretty obvious Hatton believed he was no more than a slight favourite (I'm being very generous here) otherwise he wouldn't have had to make up the plethora of dodgy excuses. But let's not get into that here...

 

I do find it odd how this fight was never made. The fans were robbed really.

 

The same way he made a fool of Tszyu and Baldomir for example? Judah was a talented young fighter, but for all that his career in the end never lived up to the heavy hype.

As for Hatton at 34, he'll probably own his own pub and be at 15 stone with his ring days long behind him. The reason for this is partly his aggressive give and take style (as opposed to Witter's defensive style), partly his out of the ring lifestyle and partly the fact that he has been fighting in at least fringe world class since the Magee fight when he was 23. By contrast, the Judah bout apart (which was more a track meet than a boxing match), Witter did not step up to that level until he wast past his 30th birthday.

 

:yep:good

 

If Hatton had confidence that he could beat Tszyu, Castillo, Mayweather and Pac then I'm pretty sure he had confidence he could beat a fighter who was never at that level or close to it. However, whether he wants to be that fighter's meal ticket and make his career when he thinks he's a complete nob head is something different entirely.

 

It's a lot easier to portray confidence when you get paid millions. That's a no lose situation.

Perhaps he saw Witter as Lose-Lose, certainly seems that way when awards ceremonys are brought up..

 

This has been a great week for Hattons legacy. First the Luis Collazo win was vindicated by an expert panel of judges and now the great and the good of the ESB Brit Forum have voted by a landslide that he'd beat Junior Witter!!!:good

 

Here we go again see. The whole problem with Hatton is that he has the cheek to get well paid to get hit in the face for a living. Well, hang him!

 

It's not a problem, its just perfectly logical that you would take huge money whether you think deep down you'll win or lose. You would, I would and Flint would. You get knocked out..so what you got the rest of your life to enjoy 50 mill.

If you were getting a fraction of that and your future prospects on the line..then you really do have to weigh up the risk reward and it seems Hatton did that and came to the conclusion Witter was just too much risk. Either that or he really was nasty to him at the award ceremony :shock::nut

If there is risk...there isn't an unshakeable confidence you'll win, either.