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Hatton: "I'm not making any excuses, I'm just pointing out the facts. Seven weeks before I stepped into the ring with Luis, I was preparing to fight Juan Lazcano at light-welterweight. My nutritionist and strength trainer, Kerry Kayes, had just six weeks to get enough muscle onto me to fight at welterweight. I can still make 140 easy, no problem at all. Obviously, I'm a TV product and I just do as I'm told. I'm not complaining, certain fighters want to move up through weights and sometimes you have to follow them. I actually thought the extra weight would allow me to punch even faster and more explosively, but that wasn't the case because I felt too heavy on the night and, to be honest, it was quite the opposite. I was inflated in a short space of time, basically. Look, I'm 5 foot 6 inches tall and I fought at 158 pounds. To weigh as much as a middleweight on the height of a lightweight and have the agility of a welterweight is pretty damn amazing I'd say, I just did my best. You shouldn't hold poor performances against me because I always do the best I can. I've come back from poor performances before, Vilches and that. I can only get better the more I fight up at this weight. Bare with me, I need time to grow into the division (welterweight) and then you'll start seeing some snap in my work again. If I can take on a Corrales or a Castillo back down at light-welter, I promise you'll see the Ricky Hatton who out-boxed Freddie Pendleton, Magee, Tackie and Oliveira with the speed and smarts. But's it upto TV companies and what not."
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"Im not making excuses"
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Sounds like an excuse to me.
How could he be training for Lazcano when there were about a 1000 names being thrown around before Collazo was named as the opponent?Comment
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Sounds like excuses to me...Comment
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Still need those "tune ups" for Floyd, eh Ricky?Comment
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cool. i agree with him.i think he could and should take on carrales or castillo. and like ive been saying on here for SOOOO long, u can not hold 1 poor performance against a fighter, AND he has to grow into the weight. 2 things he just confirmed for meComment
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Hatton said he'd of bit Arum's hand off if he offered him a Mayweather fight at 140.Originally posted by deliverymanComment
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Sounds on the money to me. This isnt Pernell Whitaker we are talking about. The guy lives off of pressure and hustle.Comment
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That's cuz they areOriginally posted by BonafideComment
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I've heard it all before, over and again.Originally posted by Jarlaxle
I just laugh it off these days..Comment
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