Ricky Hattons summer Return

I may be in the minority here but I think hatton beats bradley so id like to see that fight next.

No point now, Witter doesn't have a belt, lost and looked like crap in his last fight as well. On top of all that he isn't even a draw so its a high risk, low reward scenario. On another note who do you think Hattons new trainer should be? there's a thread already about Roach I think Freddie Roach can really help him http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/boxingandmma/6976002/Freddie-Roach-Id-be-concerned-if-asked-to-train-Ricky-Hatton-for-a-boxing-comeback.html

Hatton walks around at 180+ lbs, trains down to 154 lbs, then drys himself down to 140 lbs I just cant see him doing it healthily anymore. He didn't look good at the Pac Hatton weigh in as well. I see no point in him returning if he isn't prepared to make a lot of serious changes like lifestyle, training in between fights etc, changes I cant see him making at this point in his career. I could not agree with you more. For him to lose the weight now before summer is too fast anyways and won't be healthy. The serious changes in lifestyle should have been done long ago we are past that now. He does not have time before the fight. IMO his neglect is already showing and is really going to show from now on.

On another note who do you think Hattons new trainer should be?would be nice for Hatton to give Billy Graham the nod for his last couple of fights :boxing:

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,12183_5857438,00.html He said he will fight at lww. but he is walking around like a heavyweight atmI cant get over the fcuking size of hatton in that video:eek::sad:

Witter has been calling Hatton on for years. I know but im thinking that is why Hatton wont fight him, he is still too dangerous for Hatton to fight and brings little reward financially, not that i give a toss what he(Hatton) is getting paid but i think Hatton will go for a bigger pay day where he can fight someone he has more to gain, not that i would not like to see him fight Witter, id love to see him address Witter because he has been ducking him for years, however i dont see Hatton making the fight.

I cant see him fighting Witter now, he refused to fight him before, because he knew that style wise Witter would be a nightmare match up for him. Its a duck that will always mark his legacy in the sport. Maybe this time he will unless he wanted a rematch with Mayweather jr.

Why? Witter is left handed, he can punch hard, and win over Witter does nothing for Hatton imo. Witter has been calling Hatton on for years.

Witter for me, simply because thats one of the few fights i think he can still win. Why? Witter is left handed, he can punch hard, and win over Witter does nothing for Hatton imo.

Witter for me, simply because thats one of the few fights i think he can still win.

Boxers don't take kindly to being given advice by non-boxers. Non-boxers, according to boxers, know nothing of boxing. And most of the time they're right. When it comes to retirement, boxers are particularly sensitive to counselling from outside their tribe. "Everyone's become an expert about me," said Ricky Hatton after his devastating defeat to Manny Pacquiao in May, "but it's my decision." Yet when it comes to retirement, boxers so often get it wrong. "A fighter knows when to quit," Chris Eubank told BBC Sport last year, wilfully ignoring the stacks of evidence to the contrary. Joe Louis didn't know when to quit. Muhammad Ali didn't know when to quit. Sugar Ray Leonard, Roberto Duran, Julio Cesar Chavez, Evander Holyfield - none of them knew when to quit. Then there's Greg Page, a former heavyweight world champion who was buried the day after Hatton's defeat to Pacquiao in Las Vegas. Page, a sparring partner of Ali, retired at the age of 34 in 1993, only to embark on a comeback three years later. Like legions of fighters before him, he thought he knew when to quit - and then changed his mind. In 2001, at the age of 42, Page was knocked into a coma by 24-year-old opponent Dale Crowe. He never fully recovered. "If you don't quit, you'll get it eventually," Holyfield told me once, but what he meant by "it" is open to interpretation. Another fighter who thought he knew when to quit is Freddie Roach, the American trainer who masterminded Pacquiao's two-round demolition of Hatton. "Knockouts like that are not good for people," said Roach, who suffers from Parkinson's disease exacerbated by boxing, after Hatton's devastating defeat. "I was told to retire by my trainer and I fought five more fights without him. I lost four of them, so my trainer was probably right." Roach, like Hatton a rough-and-tumble fighter who was prepared to take two punches to land one of his own, called on Manchester's former light-welterweight king to pack it in after the loss to Pacquiao. Other notables, from Henry Cooper to John Conteh, followed suit. Hatton, not wishing to go out flat on his back, eyes flickering on and off like a busted lightbulb, has ignored them. What do Cooper and Conteh know about getting out at the right time, Hatton might have thought. Not much, but then that's the point. Given boxing's track record, his decision to fight on is hardly surprising, but that doesn't make it any less baffling to the non-boxer. Hatton was knocked cold by Manny Pacquiao inside two rounds in Las Vegas last May Unlike Page, Hatton has millions in the bank. He has a loving family, a glamorous girlfriend, a young son. Plus, against Mexico's two-weight world champion Juan Manuel Marquez, a 36-year-old pumped up featherweight and his likely opponent, Hatton will have nothing much to gain and everything to lose. But if Hatton's not a boxer, what exactly is he? He has spoken of becoming the "greatest promoter in the world", but hearing you're the greatest promoter in the world has nothing on being told "There's Only One Ricky Hatton". Over and over again, by tens of thousands, while you're up there under lights. "Success in the ring," Barry McGuigan recently told BBC Sport, "is like a Class A drug." Which is why Hatton is still chasing the dragon, and why that highest of highs will no doubt remain elusive. For all the hype surrounding his bouts on American soil (nine in total), Hatton's personal Everest was his defeat of Kostya Tszyu in Manchester in June 2005. Despite his protestations, he's been descending ever since. No-one who was present will forget that clammy Sunday morning at the MEN Arena, when Hatton ploughed Tszyu into the canvas to claim the IBF light-welterweight crown. Just as no-one will forget the manner in which he did it. Pressurising, mauling, wrestling - it was what Hatton did best. Unfortunately, against slicker, and less shopworn, fighters than the 35-year-old Tszyu, Hatton's brawling just didn't cut it. The unmistakable signs of very real decline were there for all to see in the summer of 2008, when Juan Lazcano, a career lightweight, rocked Hatton to his boots in a bona-fide tear-up at the City of Manchester Stadium. After that fight, Hatton got himself a new trainer, Floyd Mayweather Sr, and convinced himself he was a fighter reborn with an easy win over Paulie Malignaggi. Pacquiao would disabuse him of that notion in brutal fashion. So Hatton was found wanting on the biggest stage - outclassed by Floyd Mayweather Jr, demolished by Pacquiao - but then there's no shame in that. The only shame will be to see him back in the ring, with nothing left to prove, except perhaps to himself. All that any true fan can hope for is that it's merely one for the road.

Difficult to say because although JMM is past it he is still a good counter puncher and he probably still has enough timing & power to take Hatton out. Amir Khan's obvious speed advantage & accuracy would give Hatton problems, however Khan has had problems when he has been pressured so.... Its gotta be between these two dont know which one though.

I think Hattons days at lww are over, if he competes it going to have to be at a higher weight like ww. http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,12183_5857438,00.html He said he will fight at lww. but he is walking around like a heavyweight atm

Poll coming... i have put junior witter there because they have always had a rivalry and with hatton and witter both coming off loses to could be a good fight for a comeback