Why is Floyd talking about moving to 147lbs?...

[elveiel]

Billy Graham even said that he'd love the Mayweather fight more than anything else, and without giving too much away he explained that Hatton's style would be perfect to beat Mayweather, "Educated Pressure" were his exact words.

I trust what Billy Graham says, he's well known for speaking his mind and i have no reason to doubt him this time. People said Hatton didnt really want Tszyu, but its obvious now he did, until Hatton gets in with Mayweather they will say the same thing. People keep saying how good Mayweather is but Hatton will beat him, its just a matter of time until he proves it.

[JUYJUY]

Well Mayweather's talking about moving up in weight yet again, I hope he doesn't chicken out of a Hatton clash.

[elveiel]

Well Mayweather's talking about moving up in weight yet again, I hope he doesn't chicken out of a Hatton clash.

Thats the point, Mayweather is moving out of Hatton's division to fight someone who also couldnt be top dog at 140. Its almost like "if it looks difficult at 140 move to 147".

Hattons staying where he is and asking for the fight, thats why i cant understand the "Hatton doesnt want Mayweather" comments!?!?

[Sliquestylez]

HAtton is willing but that chickenshiet Warren. Anyways if they ever fight, after PBF done with him, he can crawl back to where he belong. Oh wait the lesser talent but willing slugger Maussa might kick Hatton too.

[JUYJUY]

Hattons staying where he is and asking for the fight, thats why i cant understand the "Hatton doesnt want Mayweather" comments!?!?

The comments come from American's, what do you expect from American's? The same American's who said before Tszyu-Hatton that Hatton stood absolutely no chance at all against Tszyu, but then after Hatton won they claim that Tszyu was washed up

[Briman15]

Can someone put the following offer to both camps
50/50 split
Venue: old traford (huge soccer stadium where man u plays)(if it is not too cold, otherwise MEN)
Referee: Earl Morton (ref from gatti mayweather)
Date 11/12

If either of them turn this down, they are not serious about making this fight. If hatton would rather have the ref choice put the fight in MSG. Either way, this should work. If hatton is not serious floyd would be best off moving up. This would maximize attendance revenues and ensure that floyd did not get a ref in England who felt he was officiating a Greco-roman wrestling contest

[Knicksman20]

1st Hatton IS NOT the man at Jr. Welter. Just because he beat KT in his 1st big fight doesn't make him the man. He still has to prove himself against at least 1 more top guy to solidy his status. That being said of course he'll say we wants to fight PBF. He'll wanna fight him in Britain not the US because I doubt he'll wanna leave his comfort zone where the ref gives preferential treatment to him. If he leaves his home & fights PBF in the US I'll give him more respect whether he wins or loses but PBF is on a whole new level that Hatton hasn't seen at all. PBF will TKO him if they fight.

[fatpom]

Floyd is talking about 147 for one simple reason. He wants nothing to do with Ricky Hatton.

He thinks that if he goes up to 147 we'll forget the blatent duck job he's doing.

[Briman15]

That is BS, floyd knows witha reasonable ref he will win. Hatton is not dedicated enough to this sport to beat floyd, if he were he would not weigh 170 right now. Bottom line this fight should happen.
Do it in manchester with the Mayweather/gatti ref to ensure both guys get a fair shake

[JUYJUY]

Hatton is not dedicated enough to this sport

Totally agree, I don't believe Ricky takes boxing seriously enough. He's come close to walking away from boxing many times and believe it or not it was never his plan to be a professional boxer until Frank Warren bribed him. What a waste of talent. Ricky's already taken an awful lot away from himself through eight years of ballooning upto 180+ after a fight and only training for a fight eight weeks out. Losing 40+lbs 39 times in eight years is a joke, that takes so much away from you physically. Just imagine how good Hatton could of been had he actually taken the sport seriously! Hatton started training camp a month early for Tszyu, his longest ever training camp - 12 weeks. Before that, he'd never trained longer than eight weeks in a row. He admitted that he was training "much harder" than ever before for Tszyu. Well that just proves that Ricky just was not taking the sport seriously for all those years, and even now he's not acting like a champion. He has all the talent in the world, but he eats like a ****ing pig and drinks like an alcoholic. I don't know how you can call yourself world champion when you just sit down and eat junk alday and down beers alday. Hearing Ricky's interview the day after Tszyu "I'll have one or two more biggish fights and hang my gloves up by 2007 and that'll be me."