FIGHT WITTER OR BUGGER OF BACK TO AMERICA RICKY!
Junior Witter is WBC Light Welter champ and IMO hes the best fighter at 140.Cap wrote:When you say Hopkins surely you don't mean Bernard Hopkins? Forgive an ignorant Canuckistani, but who is Junior Witter? I would give Hatton a chance to recover first before demanding he fight anybody.
Cap
Junior and Hatton have been arch-rivals for about 7 years, Witter has constantly been calling for the fight, hatton has been constantly making excuses
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WildWaylon
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Demetrius Hopkins, unbeaten LWW - Hattons camp have said they will sit around a table this month and decide who Ricky fights next, so therefore we are wanting him to agree to a fight with Witter - Hatton says he will fight in Britain to repay his loyal fans who have been going to America to see him fight - Who better than Junior Witter, WBC champ who is another British fighter - Problem is there is bad blood between the two, in particular from Hatton - Hatton says he wont give Witter a big payday but got a huge one himself by fighting Mayweather!!!Cap wrote:When you say Hopkins surely you don't mean Bernard Hopkins? Forgive an ignorant Canuckistani, but who is Junior Witter? I would give Hatton a chance to recover first before demanding he fight anybody.
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Punchy Joe
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Part of being a great champion in your best weight division is turning back the challenges of hungry lesser known contenders year after year, it’s what made many champions great including Kostya Tszyu.
Hatton should fight his top contender Witter and stop making what now just look like excuses. Hatton well knows that this is a high risk low reward fight for him, but hey that what all great champions have to do sometimes.
It’s a natural massive fight for Britain and it should be made for the good of British boxing- fook America and Paulie whateverhisnameige or Oscar (semi retired)delapuffta.
Hatton should fight his top contender Witter and stop making what now just look like excuses. Hatton well knows that this is a high risk low reward fight for him, but hey that what all great champions have to do sometimes.
It’s a natural massive fight for Britain and it should be made for the good of British boxing- fook America and Paulie whateverhisnameige or Oscar (semi retired)delapuffta.
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DG.
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Looks as though Witter sees it the same as the rest of the sane-populationJunior Witter wrote: He does not want to give Witter "the best pay-day of his life" by granting the showdown that every British fight fan is demanding.
But Witter believes the public are tired of Hatton's excuses - which have been going on since both men started out as professionals.
Witter said: "I remember going to fight in Manchester when I first started up. Hatton, Michael Gomez and Arnie Farnell were all coming through and it was mentioned then with allegedly that we should do the fight.
advertisement"Hatton looked at me with this half smile and said not quite yet' - and ever since then it's been not quite yet'.
"I was then told I could make £5,000 to fight Hatton or wait and do it for the British title for £50,000. I was happy to do it there and then, so they said I had to wait again.
"Even when it was apparently written in his contract to fight me, it still didn't happen. There was always a reason.
"I do everything I can and will beat up whoever's put in front of me. That's what fighters do, not argue about more money or TV exposure or not bringing enough people in.
"I would get a big pay-day, of course, but I'm going to get a big pay-day in my next fight. That doesn't come into it.
"I'm not bothered about making £10million or £20million. As long as I've got enough money for me and my family, then I'm happy - and I've got that."
Witter has also questioned Hatton's self-styled image as the man of the people, when he is holding back on the duel they want to see.
He said: "His fans have been screaming for my blood for the last ten years. It's the biggest fight in England since Eubank and Benn, if not bigger, so let's do it.
"Hatton loves this image of being a normal guy and yet he's started talking about himself in the third person in interviews. What normal people do that? I don't."
Witter is preparing to defend his WBC light-welterweight title in America against Demetrius Hopkins on March 22.
Hatton, recovering from his first loss at the hands of Floyd Mayweather, plans to return to the ring in May.
Witter said: "Hatton called out Mayweather by calling him a coward and boring. Now he wants to fight Paulie Malignaggi, who's been going round slagging him off in America.
"Trash talk is part of the game; not a nice part but it happens and helps to build up the intensity between the fighters.
"Malignaggi's only doing the same as me but Hatton doesn't seem to have a problem with him."
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Captain Hook
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DG.
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DG.
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Rocky Balboa
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I diagree with you in that Witter hits harder than Mayweather. I think Floyd punches harder & faster. I feel Hatton underestimated Floyd's power, that Ricky felt Mayweather would not be able to hurt or KO him. Tunred out differently though!silkov wrote:The shots from Witter that koed Harris would have done the same thing to Hatton imo... Witter hits harder than Mayweather, who got his first ko win for a couple of years against Hatton.banjo wrote:you cant compare hatton to the chinless wonder that is vivian(girls name) harris
Hattons style is made for Witter...
Ricky needs to box Witter & sooner, rather than later. However, in light of what Ricky's lawyer recently said, that Ricky will not fight Junior, I don't hold much hope of the bout happening. Shame!
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DG.
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