Lets see if Ricky is just all talk! Floyd wants him!

FLASH
Mayweather targets Hatton!
Floyd vows to beat him all the way back to England.
"Ricky Hatton has talked nonstop about fighting me for the last two weeks," says 'retired' WBC welterweight/super welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather. "He has disrespected me and my accomplishments in the ring, and I take that very seriously. I'm going to give him the opportunity to step up and fight the best in the world. I don't think this punk will take the challenge." A potential bout against Hatton would set the stage for a match-up between two of the sports best undefeated fighters. With his win over Castillo, Hatton improved his record to 43-0 with 31 KO's. Mayweather is 38-0 with 24 KO's. "Now that Hatton has opened up his big mouth, he might start to think about what he has been asking for," continued Mayweather. "Does he really want to step into the ring with best fighter of this era and embarrass himself? Being the coward that he is, I doubt he'll get in the ring. We'll see what his excuse will be this time."

 

I'm probably a few pages late...or a few days late...but..."Mayweather can't talk money with Hatton" :nono:...i think... Floyd can do 50/50

 

the ppv #'s from UK would be huge.... right Hatton has to fight on Floyd's term...just because Mayweather "defeated" DLH doesn't mean he takes dlh mojo..

 

:: is this the most ignorant post of the day? his huge live gates are around 20,000 ppl, hardly a massive hit to a ppv draw. not to mention that all 20,000 wont separately order the ppv. you can cut that number at least in half and probably into 1/3 to safely say the live gate equals a 7,000 hit to PPV sales.

 

"He has disrespected me and my accomplishments in the ring"

:laughing: Whaaaaat a fuuuuuuuuucken hypocrit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, this arsehole must have short term memory loss, or most likely, a disoriented form of 'pathism', that's the story of both Fraud and his fans, they can't even open thier mouths without chronicles of hypocrisy overriding thier bullshit like a tidal wave, it must be fucken frustrating. :crafty:

 

No, it's gonna be on Floyd's terms because he's the proven PPV commodity, he has earned in his last 5 fights more than double Hatton's best payday and is considered as the best fighter in the world, the fighter to beat. Are you guys that retarded to think Hatton is in command because he has been getting paid 1-2 million dolars with stadiums full of drunk brits in non PPV fights? Pleaaseeee.

 

yes illumanti is that ignorant

 

Sometimes the rain man is just a spastic.

 

dsimon writes:

:bears: True. I think Hatton has the best chance of (Mosley, Hatton Cotto) and that Hatton would get beat by Cotto and Mosley.

 

Then there is no fight...Floyd can keep his ass in retirement... Mosley talking shit about him for the last 2-3 weeks but he jumps at a fight against Hatton at the first chance he gets.

 

When are you going to understand this very simple basic truth...

Hatton is a bigger and more meaningful fight than Mosley!

 

You fuck, read all the posts...Hatton HAS NOT ALWAYS fought on PPV, Sky often ESCHEWED the PPV option even when they could have had massive figures. They got away with this by putting Hatton as a main event in England, with the attraction of the evening a big fight in the States, eg HATTON vs OLIVERIA in England, with Williams vs Vitali in the small hours.

The Hatton fight was FREE if you had Sky, but shit got fuzzy later on if you didn't fork up yer £16stg.

Hatton, at this stage, could do 35 million on Terrestrial. Thats over HALF of the Pop of GB. Can Fuckface Fraud match that??? Can he fuck........:flip:

 

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And on Separate nights.:nono: at that.

The only thing is that they might not get permission from the Police.!!

There would have to be a 6 month gap, just to keep shit under wraps.

And it would have to be planned carefully.

We don't want Man City at Arsenal, Chelsea, Fulham or Spurs the weekend that fight happens.:warning: :warning:

 

Hatton is a bigger $$$ fight. It's only going to be more meaningful to the casual fan who's just looking at the undefeated records. Don't get me wrong I'm not bitching about it cause I want to see Floyd fight the Hatton's Mosleys, Cotto's and Margarito's, people who should be a test, and yes Hatton talked a bit of trash about Floyd but Mosley has been talking more as has Margarito so I don't like the "he's bad mouthing me and now I'm going to kick his ass" bit that Floyd's pulling.

Now Floyd can help me out here a bit if he fights Hatton at 140, by doing that he nips the Hatton looked like crap at 147 stuff in the bud, plus he can beat the man at the mans weight which looks a hell of a lot better on his resume.

 

If this fight doesn't go down X,it will be both there fault.

 

Hatton is a more meaningful fight as well: to BOTH the casual fans AND the rest of us.

The last big fight that Mosley has won was the De La Hoya rematch, which most people though he lost anyway. Since then he's lost twice to winky wright and has had a big fight. Shane is 35 years of age...people say Oscar is past his prime, well guess what...Shane is even older.

Shane has lost four fights and isn't a champion.

Hatton is the undefeated, undisputed TRUE Junior Welterweight champion of the world...stopped Kostya Tszyu relatively recently, which is a HUGE achievement, regardless of whether revisionists now want to label Kostya as being "shot" in that fight. He just stopped Castillo early...which is no mean feat.

It's a no brainer. Hatton is the big fight that Floyd would need, to be motivated after beating the box office star attraction...Oscar De La Hoya.

 

I understand your a Floyd fan, but don't discredit Mosley. I think Floyd Hatton if it isn't at 140 is all risk little reward for Floyd. Yes Hatton is undefeated and younger and the true JW champ, but Floyd is fighting 1 or 2 weights above JW. And the only time Hatton went above JW he looked like crap vs a much lesser opponent then Floyd would be, and yes Hatton just stopped Castillo early (@140) but Cotto just kicked the shit out of Zab another guy Floyd went 12 with and Cotto is fighting at 147 not 140, oh yeah and Cotto is also undefeated and young and hungry just like Hatton so why would you want a fight with a undefeated JW in Hatton when he can fight an undefeated WW in Cotto? Because Hatton is the bigger $$$$ fight. But that's just my opinion and in the end as long as Floyd isn't fighting the Bruseles's or Mitchell's then that's good enough.

 

I agree that Cotto would be AS meanigful a fight, given that he's a titlist, in his prime and undefeated as well...but Cotto hasn't been talking the TRASH that Hatton has been. That's teh major difference.

If Cotto was calling Floyd boring and Sheryl Crowe etc....Floyd would have elected to fight him instead.

 

That's cause Cotto doesn't say anything about anybody other then "whatever my team thinks." :tease:

 

Mayweather fighting anyone from the Hatton/Mosley/Cotto trio is fine with me. Oh, and the Williams/Margarito winner, but I don't think that's likely to happen.

I think Hatton will be better physically next time @ 147 because he'll have more time to prepare for the jump up in weight. Last time, it was on fairly short notice since he thought he was fighting Lazcano @ 140 but HBO rejected it, and then he moved up in short time.

It's a one weight class difference. I don't know if Mayweather can make 140 at this stage, maybe he can. He filled out pretty well @ 140 in the Gatti fight, maybe in the last 2 years he grew into 147. The fight would be @ 147, Floyd ain't going down to make it better for Ricky.

Mayweather-Hatton is overdue. It should've happened before but Hatton's team wanted more USA exposure and that HBO $$$.

I think Mayweather-Cotto is actually the most intriguing matchup, but that's not gonna happen this year regardless. I'm sure Floyd will yap about the relatively low PPV totals of his fight with Cotto (although Hatton's no proven PPV commodity either), but besides, Cotto is set to fight Margarito in the winter should he beat Williams.

 

This fight is exciting to some of you but this is about the biggest mismatch I can think of style wise.

Hatton is going to have to try and hug someone who will be constantly moving and getting potshotted all the way through. Collazo had Hatton out on his feet just by using movement and using angles to punch at clumsy Hugman, and this is Floyd's game.

If this fight happens, Hatton is going to get brutalized.

 

Collazo:
Bigger than Floyd
Stronger than Floyd
Southpaw
Harder hitter
Longer arms
Natural Welter.

Plus: Hatton fought dumb, and still won.

Come on man....apples and apples.

 

It doesn't matter that Floyd just beat a Jnr Middleweight in Oscar. Ricky Hatton IS the bigger man, make no mistake.

It's kinda like how Oscar MOVED UP to fight Pernell Whitaker at 147lbs...but it's apparent that Oscar was the bigger man.

At the very least, Floyd and Hatton are the same size.

 

Hatton a bigger draw than Floyd??? Are you serious... Floyd is known throughout the world, Hatton's fans are primarily in England...

I seriously doubt Hatton could get 2million PPV buys even if he was fighting Tyson and Holyfield on the same card...

Floyd would demand the lion's share and rightfully so... Mayweather is well-known and considered the best today and one of the all-time best... Hatton is still trying to make a name for himself...

 

I dunno about that.

Oscar was taller and rangier than Whitaker, and seemed to have a thicker frame (hard to imagine him making those lower weights when he seemed bigger, I guess it's those intimidating animal-like shoulders). Floyd is taller and rangier than Ricky, but Hatton has a thicker frame.

 

Bigger than Floyd - And? What does this have to do with anything, Collazo and Floyd don't rely on physical size to beat their opponents. They rely on guile and quickness.

Stronger than Floyd - Debatable.

Southpaw - It wasn't Collazo's stance that gave Hugman problems, it was his angles, and movement.

Harder hitter - Says who? Floyd has the higher KO percentage

Longer arms - Just plain wrong. They have an equal reach and Collazo has 1 inch of height on Floyd.

Natural Welter - So what? Floyd has shown he can handle fighters at 154, Collazo hasn't.

Hatton fought as he always does against Collazo, it's just that collazo wasn't a slow plodding fighter like Castillo or Urango. Floyd is all wrong for Hatton, the only reason I'd watch this fight is to see how many times Hatton gets hit cleanly before the crowd begins to grow quiet.

 

Tell me dis ting nah!!

Muzse is going senile. ld:

 

Revisionist History...

"The last big fight that Mosley has won was the De La Hoya rematch, which most people though he lost anyway."

Most people did NOT think El Helicoptor won the rematch, at least those watching the fight live. In fact most of the journalists had Shane winning comfortably.

I remember in the preface to the rebroadcast of the fight one of the hbOscar broadcasters (I think it was Lampley) made a comment along the lines of them seeing the fight differently than everyone else.

peace (as appropriated from donny)