Comments Thread For: Ricky Hatton: "I'm Sick of Hearing About My Weight"

[bojangles1987]

Junior welterweights are not supposed to be 200 pounds in between fights. You better expect criticism as a well known professional athlete when you take such bad care of yourself, especially considering what Pac did to him.

[Suckmedry]

12 st 10? he must have lost some, because he looked heavier than that when I last saw him.

[Suckmedry]

Most people on these boards don't even go to the gym at all. Hatton just has bad genes. Most people don't work out and still don't look as heavy as Hatton.

But the diet Hatton has inbetween fights is atrocious, even worse than the regular persons. He eats a fried breakfast every morning, eats heaps of meat pies, drinks like a fish, anyone would gain serious weight with that sort of diet.

[Suckmedry]

they did a study one year after the olympics and found that boxers pack on the most weight offseason when not in training.
look at eric morales, roberto duran, tyson, and naseem hamed for clear examples of this.

Well yeah, when you have been starving and training harder than any regular person could imagine, you tend to want to relax when you have some time off.

But you need a balance, what Hatton does is extreme, same with what Duran used to do.

[pcr405]

meh, let hatton do what he wants its his career/life. People just need to relax a bit and not take it as a personal insult.

[Catrin]

Go AWAY FATTY HATTON!!! UR TIME IS UP!!! And if ur lookin for a big payday b4 retiring DYNAMITA MARQUEZ is who u want, u want complete sale out Staples center is the spot! Undercard could include ortiz, maidana and maybe khan... Except bradley cause there SCARE OF HIM!!! lol

[Ravens Fan]

they did a study one year after the olympics and found that boxers pack on the most weight offseason when not in training.
look at eric morales, roberto duran, tyson, and naseem hamed for clear examples of this.

Considering the fact that boxing is one of the few sports that has weight limits involved. Why would anyone waste money studying a situation that should be pretty obvious?

[Kampung.Boy]

I dont understand how he can become so fat. Even I'm not that fat and I only go to the gym like 3 times a week.

It must be the beer and fish n chips.

[steeluv]

I think Hatton is a shot fighter because of poor eating habits and his repeatedly crashing off weight before fights.

When you lose a lot of weight in a short period of time, some of it is bound to be muscle - it's VERY unheathy to do it over and over again. Hatton looked like a walking corpse at his weigh-in for the Pacquiao fight.

I think Hatton had far more talent than people give him credit for, but he ruined himself with poor eating habits between fights.

Agreed I think he took bad care all the drinking pints of beer and eating fry ups between fights cant be good for him long term. I dont think he is completely shot he will still be able to beat anyone outside the top 5 LWW's

[ShoulderRoll]

"I want to do four or five weeks away from the gym shedding time and then doing my normal 12-week training camp."

Just don't complain about overtraining after a schedule like that since it's your own damn fault, Ricky.

And people are worried about you because you've been sparked out a few times. The brain becomes more susceptible to getting knocked out each time this happens.