Matthew Hatton vs Lovemore Ndou on September 12?
By Mark Vester
According to Lovemore Ndou, he will make the first defense of his IBO welterweight title against Matthew Hatton on September 12. The last time the younger Hatton was mentioned in print, he was scheduled to fight former champion Zab Judah on the undercard to Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Juan Manuel Marquez on September 19 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
Ndou said that he plans to punish Matthew as a method of luring older brother Ricky into a fight.
"When I was supposed to fight Ricky, he chose not to fight me. aAfter I beat up his brother, this might just lure him into a fight with me," Ndou said to the Sydney Morning Herald.
After Hattton, he wants to move up by two weight divisions to face Australian rival Anthony Mundine, the IBO's middleweight champion. It's not the first time that Ndou mentioned a clash with Mundine at the middleweight level.
"On the domestic front, the fight I want is Mundine. He holds the IBO middleweight world title, I hold the IBO welterweight championship, let's do it," Ndou said.
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