Can we cut Hatton a little slack?

[squealpiggy]

The score cards were s crooked as the ref, and the ref had a major impact on the fight by preventing any infighting in a situation where one fighter was clearly going to be relying on infighting to win. Sure Hatton was getting tagged as he made his way in but he's always done that. It was the fact that Floyd would then duck below the waist or would hit and then hold until they were separated and Hatton was the one being warned!

Remember the collazo fight? the first american hatton fought, he won that fight pretty narrowly and took a pretty severe beating

That's very true. Apart from Collazo was the seventh American that Ricky fought, and he fought the first American at Madison Square Gardens in his second professional fight.

[Bizzle_LDN]

One of Hatton's main reasons for a rematch is that he wants to prove the critics wrong and regain his credibility. If he wants to see if he can beat Mayweather at light welterweight in England with a different ref then why not? Atleast he's not like alot of fighters at the moment ducking people. At the end of the day it will be Mayweather signing the contract. Blame him.

[steptwome]

Hatton taking a rematch with Floyd would be like Gatti coming out of retirement for a crack at Mayweather again........

It doesn't make sense. I like Hatton, I honestly do. I can sympathize with his dealing with the loss and understand that he's never felt this before. But there comes a point in time when you have to get over **** and handle your business, if Hatton wants Mayweather again I think he should earn it in the ring, not by lobbying his cause.

..first and foremost he needs to get past Malignaggi and prove the Avid boxing fan wrong> taking a much avoided bout against Witter

[Pullcounter]

blaming cortez is gay... floyd was beating hatton at his own game. it was pretty one-sided in floyd's favor... I guess you can't blame hatton for wanting revenge, but even he should know he missed more shots than he landed.

[VERSION1 (V1)]

He needs to handle his business with Witter first.

agreed. He has businees at 140 first

[Drunk Punch]

Rematches should only be for fights that are close or controversial, Hatton lost just about every round. I see no point whatsoever making this happen.

If Hatton really wants to leave a legacy then clean up at Jr WW and then start talking about a rematch with Mayweather.

[squealpiggy]

blaming cortez is gay... floyd was beating hatton at his own game. it was pretty one-sided in floyd's favor... I guess you can't blame hatton for wanting revenge, but even he should know he missed more shots than he landed.

It wasn't one sided for the first six rounds despite that the scorecards say, and Floyd wasn't beating Hatton at his own game because the referee was separating the fighters in some cases BEFORE there was a clinch. If you can't see that Cortez did a piss-poor job then you're probably better off watching "professional" wrestling.

Rematches should only be for fights that are close or controversial, Hatton lost just about every round. I see no point whatsoever making this happen.

And Chad Dawson beat Glen Johnson eight rounds to four.

[mECHsLAVE]

None of you would fight Witter if you had a chance for a bigger, history-making fight, one of the biggest fights ever held in your country....

Hatton is going to have a very hard time, and will very likely lose the rematch, because he shouldn't be fighting an ounce over 140, ever. Floyd's reach and jab are just too much for Hatton to get around, he's not a big enough guy to do anything but fight on the inside, and Floyd fought the perfect fight (with a little help from the ref).

But those of you who think Cortez was just "doing his job" and that "Hatton didn't win a round" are as delusional as you are accusing Hatton of being.

[PoetryInMotion]

I dont blame him for wanting a rematch, there's just other fighters i rather see these guys fight, rather then themselves again.

[SugarShanep4p]

Cortez was definatly "over agressive" I guess you could say, but that doesn't account for ricky getting knocked out. The fight was too one sided to have a rematch, if Ricky didn't get knocked out, mabye. He should be grateful he even got the chance to get where he was, if I had to choose between a DLH rematch and a Hatton rematch I'd take DLH. IMO DLH was closer to beating pbf then Ricky.....although I wouldnt go as far as to put it on ppv lol, which they probably would.