The real reason Hatton should retire

[Dave Rado]

She shouldn't have to go through this again.

[The Gully Gad]

Is it a bad thing that she actually turns me on looking like that

Nah what the *** am i thinking im thinking in ****o mode

Yo thats low bruv!!!

But i guess Cotto had his fair share and some others i can mention so fair enough

[The Gully Gad]

And i look a C*nt answering to this if it is indeed a bait thread

[D-MiZe]

It looks like she sat on a broom handle.

[floydjoy]

he should retire, he would be ktfo by witter too and bradley

[Nacho_Analstain]

Is it a bad thing that she actually turns me on looking like that

Nah what the *** am i thinking im thinking in ****o mode

Yo thats low bruv!!!

But i guess Cotto had his fair share and some others i can mention so fair enough

Is it sick that I actually know what you mean?

Hatton should retire because he doesn't need boxing, hes got millions and millions in the bank he doesn't need to take any more punches.

Its ok saying he loves boxing he can't help it, course he can, he cant use his fists anymore its that simple, I love ***** but when im 65 and my **** stops working I'm gonna have to call it a day and enjoy the memories.

[supRa]

buh bye hatton.....

[Pullcounter]

She shouldn't have to go through this again.

c'mon now, this won't happen again if hatton stay away from pac and pbf.

[AKATheMack]

It looks like she sat on a broom handle.

Naw that was me, I was just tryin to comfort her.

[Dave Rado]

I'm surprised by this thread Dave. This is a Flawless type tactic homey. Not your usual style man.

I haven't read Flawless's posts so I'm not sure what you mean by that, but I simply don't think Jennifer Dooley should be put through an experience like that again.

He doesn't need any more money and can no longer legitimately claim to be fighting for glory. His glory days are definitely behind him.

His fiancé and son are far more important now than his career.

Unlike Pullcounter, I think that there's a genuine danger of it happening again if he continues to fight at world class level (and I don't see the point in him fighting people who aren't on the level he has been at for the last four years).

An extract from the newspaper article I got that photo from:

Hatton's body surrendered instantly at that dreadful moment of impact, his legs sagging, his arms lolloping and the back of his head hitting the canvas with such abandon as to suggest temporary coma. His eyelids opened an instant later, but behind them was a glassy void that will have chilled the blood of his army of supporters tuning in on television and, indeed, any other viewer possessed of human feeling.

And it was at that moment that we were treated - if that is the right word - to the shot of Dooley, her head craning to get a sight of her boyfriend amid a scramble of cornermen and medics, her body shaking uncontrollably, her face betraying all the confusion and panic of a woman in momentary fear that her man may never get up.

Is it worth the human cost?

The irony is that Hatton would have got up and carried on had he remained in volitional control of his ragdoll body. He would have climbed from the canvas and bulled forward, even in the foreknowledge that his skills were never going to be sufficient to test a boxer of Pacquiao's class. He would have fought on even at the risk of permanent brain damage; after all, that is the possibility every pugilist accepts each time he ventures through the ropes.

The essential problem for any boxer is not a lack of courage, but too much of it. The problem is when he can silence the fear and greet the pain with equanimity. The problem is when he is able, by whatever trick of wiring between brain and body, to avoid what Norman Mailer called “the precious inrush of confusion known as coma”.

We should be thankful, then, that Hatton's senses were so scrambled that he had no option but to lay back, his pale lips twitching, as the medics rushed in.

Hatton was given the all-clear after a brain scan at hospital in Las Vegas and his fans and the rest of the boxing world will take comfort from that. But can we legitimately fail to acknowledge that things could have been so very different? That Hatton might have joined the ever-growing list of champions and former champions to have left the ring with irretrievable damage to the brain?

Hugh McIlvanney, one of the sport's most articulate apologists, wrote: “Any supporter of boxing who does not admit to some residual ambivalence about its values, who has not wondered, in its crueller moments, if it is worth the candle, must be suspect.” I, for one, continue to wonder.