Does hatton have anything left? If so, who should he fight?

[Dirk Diggler UK]

He should retire, his punch resistance is nowhere near what it was and thats not ideal when your style entails you to walk onto and through shots. I would loathe to see someone like Witter or Frank Warren (with Khan) pick up the scraps of Rick's career

[Pullcounter]

Yes ricky still has 2 or 3 good fights in him before throwing it in, lets be honest, the man only lost to the two most skilled fighters in atleast the last 10 years.

So whgo should he fight? Heres my idea...
He should first settle the old rivalry in manchester and knock out Junior whitter. Big fight in Manchester stadium that i would fly over to England to see. I see hatton winning by Ko against Whitter.

Second and maybe last, I think a fight with Juan Diaz at jr welterweight would be a good fight before retirement solely because of their styles. tough one to call..... anybodys fight imo.

hatton can continue fighting if he gives up his bing eating and drinking and cherrypicks the right opponents.

[JOM'S]

he can fight the 140 guys if he wants.

get the 135 guys to move up is also possible.

fighters like ricky hatton can get anyone to fight them.

calderon would move up to 147 to fight ricky for the kind of money he can make in a hatton fight.

juan diaz , juan manuel marquez (after the loss to mayweather) , joel casamayor , julio diaz , david diaz , nate campbell , junior witter , timothy bradley , kendall holt , ricardo torres......

all would be good fights. hell , fight breidis prescott to avenge amir khan. lol

i do agree with you bro ....

Ricky is still a money fight versus all guys at 140&below not named PAC

[talip bin osman]

the original hitman, hearns was able to annex a middleweight title some 2-3 fights after his KO loss to hagler...

then a light heavyweight title from virgil hill 2-3 fights after that upset KO win over him by barkley @ age 34...

[[ILLMatic]]

He Doesnt have The Defense .
Never Did.
IMO Hatton Is Overrated.

[shade darkar]

Yes ricky still has 2 or 3 good fights in him before throwing it in, lets be honest, the man only lost to the two most skilled fighters in atleast the last 10 years.

So whgo should he fight? Heres my idea...
He should first settle the old rivalry in manchester and knock out Junior whitter. Big fight in Manchester stadium that i would fly over to England to see. I see hatton winning by Ko against Whitter.

Second and maybe last, I think a fight with Juan Diaz at jr welterweight would be a good fight before retirement solely because of their styles. tough one to call..... anybodys fight imo.

well as a hatton fan, everything was looking rosey before the pacman fight. but to get obliterated the way he did, now its looking very grim indeed for hatton. i honestly do not see the point in carrying on because he has had 2 fights against arguueably 2 of the best of our generation and got knocked out both times. he has won 4 world titles at 2 different weights and made plenty of coin. Hatton said all he had left to do was try and become p4p number 1. He cant do that now. therefore there is absolutely no point in carrying on.

[jcarr71]

Hatton held belts at two weight classes and was the real champ of one of them as well for quite a while. That is a strong legacy. Personally I think he should retire. He won't go down as an all time great, but he'll be remembered and there is really nothing he can do to change his status at this point barring a miracle turn around anyway.

If he does return, however, he should focus on fighting domestically over in England. He should be done with this place. For his first fight back he needs to pull up a bum from 135 to make sure nothing can possibly go wrong. This one needs to be about confidence. Willie Limond, anyway? After that, assuming it goes smoothly, the Witter fight makes tons of sense. If he gets through that some of those rather... gullible fans will think he is back, and from there a Khan (who has also fought three or four more times) fight suddenly makes sense.

If he were 3-0 in those fights, then he could try to re-enter the world stage. Maybe by that time he could even try for a belt by staying home and going after Paul McCloskey of Ireland who could very well have a belt in a couple years time. 140 is always weak and it will be again soon. 147 always carries tons more money and 135 even brings in more as well. It is just how boxing always works. There will be someone beatable for him to get a belt back. If he were to go 4-0 and get a title though, I'd pray he retires. If he made another assinine run at P4P status he'd probably die.

EDIT: After I typed that I realized he'd probably get a belt from the Khan fight. If he doesn't that means Khan was stopped again somewhere and that fight doesn't make sense anymore.