Is Ricky Hatton seriously coming out of retirement to fight Malignaggi again?

Hatton vs Khan - Big money fight, be easy to make, will sell out in Wembley or Manchester in no time.

 

I'd be very surprised is Khan-Hatton isn't the medium term aim here. I hope Hatton has something left, because a prime Hatton would have wasted that chump.

MTF

 

i hope Ricky does well and we'll see him fight Khan

 

If a washed up Hatton beat Khan it'd be hilarious.

 

I am not sure what would damage boxing more. Hatton beating Khan or Khan beating Hatton. Probably the former.

 

I don't see how either result would "damage" boxing.

But it's a fight Khan would be RETARDED to take.

Firstly, Hatton is loved. Khan is not.

Khan would be expected to beat Hatton up at this stage. If he did, so what? He beat up a shot Hatton, and he'd be hated even more.

If he LOST (hey, its possible. Khan sucks), then he'd be a bigger laughing stock than he is now.

Smart fight for Hatton. Dumb fight for Khan.

 

If Khan loses to Hatton, he's basically announcing, out loud, in bright Neon letters, that boxing is utter utter utter pish.

Hatton is more shot than Sputnik. Thats how shot he is.

It would basically draw a red line right thru the entire lineage of Khan and those associated with him, especially those who LOST to him, like Judah, Kotelnik, Maidana, fighters who pad the current line of thinking that 140 is some sort of a hotbed of talent.

No matter what, Khan would have the excuses ready such as "Hey, I lost to a legend, thanks for the money, cheers" or "I was racially abused at the weigh in by James Bowes and it broke my concentration"

 

Thats largely what it boils down to. Hatton wants a last hurrah and a few bob, Khan is fresh out of avenues thanks to his loss to Garcia. If it makes money it makes sense.

 

Well lets see how Hatton looks in his comeback first.

But I highly doubt he beats Khan at this stage. I say that because I highly doubt he has the footspeed to close the gap anymore. Probably doesn't have the reflexes to pull the trigger once inside anymore either.

Khan busts him up at this stage.

Garcia beats him up, and knocks him out.

Matthyse might literally end his life.

Hell, Matthyse would be a dangerous fight for a PRIME Hatton.

Prime Hatton would make easy work of Khan, and Garcia though.

 

Irish, how would you know how shot Hatton is?

Anything regarding Hatton's shotness is pure speculation.

I agree that in all likelyhood he's going to be a shell, unlike disciplined fighters like Floyd and Nard, he doesn't keep the best care of himself, and he has a style that pretty much relies on youth, energy, footspeed, stamina etc. I don't fancy a 30's, inactive Hatton to be much good, but we don't know that yet. He might look better than expected in his first fight.

 

Hatton should call out Witter.

 

Hatton scores Guinness and Poitin off me every week. He sometimes offers me old gloves and bits of hand-wrap as part payment. Fucked to bits so he is.

 

Yeah, he can make 140, he's a fucking midget.

A bona-fide midget I know once met Hatton and said that in a street fight, he'd get Hatton down on the ground and choke him out. Said Hatton was tiny.

 

Well, Witter believes Hatton is making a comeback to fight him.

 

"he wouldn't show up, and if he did, I'd smoke him"

Dot "Lights Out" Cotton.

 

Ok, so, Hatton has ruled out a date with Malignaggi in november.

 

Randall Bailey

 

Ray Hatton.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-19609590

 

"Hue" ::

 

:: Ricky's got no chance if he got beat up by his old man.

 

Hatton: shite in his prime, dead from November.

 

Now, now. He wasn't shite in his prime and you know it.

 

Beat up on a shot-but-no-one-knew-it-at-the-time Tszyu and a war-torn Castillo.
Got blasted every time he stepped up.

Typical fare from a UK fighter Im afraid.