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MightyWarrior wrote:SN did offer Witter a fight with Pinto - for some sort of vacant WBO title or final eliminator - but he turned it down, and the reasons he gave were none too convincing.

Well done, spot on.

states wrote:Well, that was the claim, he'd hurt his hand. There were rumours flying around that Witter just didn't fancy it though. Although I believe the WBO got medical reports confirming the injury.

The Ingles could produce a document saying a fighter has a severed head, but will be fit in a fortnight. Get real. The contact was signed and he had the fight but decided to go for the European title cos it was easier.

Witter is not a fighter wioth a heart.

boxingchat wrote:

lvlarc_uk wrote:Warren signed Hatton for the money, now they have both made their money. Hatton is moving on to bigger and better things. So why cant Frank just accept that. He's a very bitter man.


How long has Souleymane M'baye been with Warren? I'm guessing Warren signed him once he knew he was #1 so he could get back at Hatton. Apologise if I'm wrong.

Boxingchat can you confirm if you are related to SN ?

Warren signed HAtton for the money?

Was Hatton a big name selling tickts when Warren signed him or was he just a good prospect fighting on undercards and bleeding on every one? a four or six round fighter with potential yes but not an instant star like Khan or Hamed say. But is was Warren who invested tens of thousands in him for no reward. Hatton never paid warren a penny in management money so it was not about purely money. Wouldn't you like 25% of him?
It was FW and SN who helped turn him into the star he is today. He didn't sell tickets when he started and there was no indication he would reach the heights he has so that is a dumb comment.

Warren promoted him yes, but he didnt do it for love HE MADE MONEY from Hatton fights. The contract has come to an end, Hatton has moved on Warren should wish him luck. Its clear Warren would not have wanted Hatton to go to the US and fight, and Hatton wanted to do so. I really dont see how anyone can have a problem with what Hatton has done. Both Hatton AND Warren made a fortune from the MEN shows and that should be the end of it.

Silkov, your post just confirms to me that your ears are closed and you believe what you want to beiieve.

Your post is so full of drivel and inaccuracies that it does not even merit a response.

Basically, you talk a good fight but actually know fornicate all.

hey boxingchat where you staying next week, enzo just phoned me maybe we can all have a drink after he wips hobson

Exactly. Ricky was FW's golden goose. If Ricky finally twigs that FW is making a fortune from Ricky then why shouldn't he try for a bigger cut himself? Ricky also got FW out of the shit by agreeing to fight Vilches at short notice just because ticket sales for the Calzaghe fight were slow (think Joe eventually pulled out anyway).

FW is successful, he's made his money and good luck to him. If he's not got the sense to tie his money making machine to a binding contract then more fool him.

REAL_DEAL wrote:hey boxingchat where you staying next week, enzo just phoned me maybe we can all have a drink after he wips hobson

He's staying in Franks room.

John Dillinger wrote:Exactly. Ricky was FW's golden goose. If Ricky finally twigs that FW is making a fortune from Ricky then why shouldn't he try for a bigger cut himself? Ricky also got FW out of the shit by agreeing to fight Vilches at short notice just because ticket sales for the Calzaghe fight were slow (think Joe eventually pulled out anyway).

FW is successful, he's made his money and good luck to him. If he's not got the sense to tie his money making machine to a binding contract then more fool him.

Short notice, he knew about the show before Calzaghe did. He announced it on Sky TV sitting on the ring after his previous fight. If it was short notice why was he at the PC and why was he on the fornicating poster dressed up as a soldier with Joe? See you lot listen to all the Hatton shit and turn a blind eye to the facts that are staring you in the face.

Watch the tape, get the poster and get with the script you fool.

nickd wrote:

REAL_DEAL wrote:hey boxingchat where you staying next week, enzo just phoned me maybe we can all have a drink after he wips hobson

He's staying in Franks room.

What you doing, licking Ricky and Ray's cars clean? The car that FW bought him for Xmas that the little hypocrite still drives around in.

boxingchat wrote:

John Dillinger wrote:Exactly. Ricky was FW's golden goose. If Ricky finally twigs that FW is making a fortune from Ricky then why shouldn't he try for a bigger cut himself? Ricky also got FW out of the shit by agreeing to fight Vilches at short notice just because ticket sales for the Calzaghe fight were slow (think Joe eventually pulled out anyway).

FW is successful, he's made his money and good luck to him. If he's not got the sense to tie his money making machine to a binding contract then more fool him.

Short notice, he knew about the show before Calzaghe did. He announced it on Sky TV sitting on the ring after his previous fight. If it was short notice why was he at the PC and why was he on the fornicating poster dressed up as a soldier with Joe? See you lot listen to all the Hatton shit and turn a blind eye to the facts that are staring you in the face.

Watch the tape, get the poster and get with the script you fool.

he may have known he was fighting but not against Vilches.


he knew he was fighting in June but supposedly against Mitchell.
also it was supposed to be a double header with Calzaghe v Johnson .

I know at was at the friggin press conference in Baker street.


Cazlaghe got injured Mitchell never got signed and Hatton took on vilches at short notice as the show was going tits up.

Seems you dont know your own business .

There's no need to be personal lad. Or so bitter. FW failed to protect his business interests. It'll cost him millions. End of.

There's some blatant nonsense being talked on here.

To say Ricky Hatton wasn't a draw is plain bollocks. I've been to see Hatton fight twice at the MEN, and it must have been a strange coincidence then that the entire crowd went fornicating mental when Hatton entered the ring? The same crowd who were virtually non existent/silent during the undercard?

I don't see how anyone can prove otherwise, it's not like people write which fighter they are coming to see on their ticket stub when they hand it in. Even if other fighters took ticket allocations to sell, that doesn't mean that the people they sold them to weren't turning up to see Hatton.

Yes, I agree, Hatton benefitted enormously from his associated with Warren, just like Naseem did, and I do believe that he earned very nicely out of it and had choice over his opponents.

With regard to Witter, I think Ingle saw Pinto as a potential banana skin, and thought Warren was trying to get rid of Witter. The history with Warren and Ingle wasn't exactly great, I remember hearing Ingle moaning his head off at ringside at the Hatton v Pendleton bout about how Junior wasn't getting the opportunities. Ingle saw that Pinto might be a danger, and saw the opportunity for his fighter to get the EBU belt instead, and made a decision. Maybe Witter was injured, I just don't know, but I suspect it was a tactical decision.

As for Witter's fight with Judah, both points of view are right.

1 Yes, Witter was given a nightmare assignment against a guy who was rated as a future great with having so little time to prepare, it was a poisoned chalice, and I cannot see that at the same point in his career, Hatton would have relished 9 days preparation to face Judah.

2 Yes Witter DID stink the joint out. I'm sure he wasn't forced at gunpoint to take the fight, and it would probably have been better not to turn up that put on a display that effectively prevented him getting on showtime for the next few years.

Warren obviously saw something marketable in Hatton early on, otherwise he wouldn't have invested all that money in making him a big star, something he obviously didn't see in Witter, rightly or wrongly, he chose to back the guy he thought had the most potential.

It isn't ALL about Money, but as far as I am aware, SN doesn't have charitable status, and allegedly is not a member of the Red Cross.

Now Hatton has gone, and SN are gutted. Gutted because ITV are probably pissed off, gutted because Ricky was in line to earn a fornicating fortune for himself and them, and Gutted because Warren's pride is injured.

I find it extremely hard to believe that M'baye is bringing this action indepdendently, he no doubt has the backing of Warren who is using him as a pawn to get to Ricky. Frank obviously wants to make sure Ricky loses one or more of his titles. I'm not entering into the rights and wrongs of it, as the sanctioning bodies are a waste of energy, but it seems clear that SN are the ones who are initiating this. I could be wrong, but without actually working for them, how can I be sure?

Much as Witter wasted much of his energy chasing and berating Hatton, it appears Warren is doing the same, when he has other fish to fry. It's his call and I don't know what I'd do in the same situation?

Hatton and Warren will never work together again, so what purpose does it serve except to exact vengeance?

I look forward to hearing all the details of the court case, which should be very revealing.

Great post

Spot on James have you ever tried writing?

I don't want to get involved too heavily in this debate but I'm a fan of Ricky who has been becoming increasingly frustrating with how his career seems to be developing. I've always given Ricky the benefit of the doubt in the past and he comes comes across very well in interviews. I think Ricky was right to fight Maussa, it was a great opportunity to take the WBA title from arguably the poorest top ten fighter in the division. However, after the fight, I thought it was a complete joke when Ricky started saying how he is now entitled to a soft fight because he has just fought for two world titles consecutively.

This made me question Rickys true ambitions. Pedersen, Vilches, Stewart, Oliveira in a row. Then he fights Tszyu (I give him massive credit for that) and then Maussa who was never much better (if at all) than the four opponents prior to Tszyu. To then claim to be entitled to a soft opponent is just laughable.

I'm interested in seeing who his next opponent will be but it seems to me that apart from taking on Tszyu, Ricky appears to want to do things as easily as possible. This is smart and it will make him more money and keep his unbeaten record intact, however he needs to step it up if he wants to be remembered as a great. All this talk of his camp trying to get a fight with Baldomir, I hated when I heard it. I felt as though Ricky was trying to steal the Welterweight titles. Sure somebody has to fight him (Baldomir) but Ricky is already an established name and doesn't need to be fighting for alphabet titles to make his name when everybody knows who his real challengers are.

Why isn't he calling out Castillo, Cotto or Mayweather? I'd give him more respect for taking on Witter than fighting Baldomir - in fact I think a fight with Witter would be a bigger ticket seller (despite Witter having what seemed like less than a hundred fans behind him for the Lynes fight). I haven't heard anything about Ricky fighting Castillo (but lots about the washed up Gatti).

The last time I heard Cotto mentioned was on a Sky show last year where he was interviewed and said how he would love to fight Ricky. When asked about this fight Ricky said "you're not the one who would have to fight him" and then mumbled something about "maybe further down the line", hardly words of a hungry fighter (excuse the pun). At this time Cotto was already making big waves in the States but ricky wasn't interested.

Now (although not reading it myself), I'm hearing Ricky is saying he's not ready for Mayweather until a couple more fights? Come on Ricky, get your act together and stop trying to fool people. Even if he lost to Mayweather, it's not the end of the world, there are still other challenges. A spirited show against him full of heart would make him a much bigger name in the States than if he keeps picking opponents he's heavily favoured to beat.

I may now sound like I'm turning or have turned into a Ricky hater but I'm not, I'm just frustrated with all the bullshit. I want to support Ricky as I think he is a great fighter, but he needs to be fighting the best out there to get the recognition he claims he wants.

boxingchat wrote:Silkov, your post just confirms to me that your ears are closed and you believe what you want to beiieve.

Your post is so full of drivel and inaccuracies that it does not even merit a response.

Basically, you talk a good fight but actually know smeg all.

Yeah, well you don't even talk a good fight, you just stoop to childish insults. You claim to know so much but have never offered any evidence. Show some evidence that Witter didn't want the fight with Hatton... you claim Witter hasn't got a fighters heart, how many times have you stepped into the ring?... you're nothing but FW's little poodle yapping away and not making any sense.... if you really work for that man than he must be in trouble...

Come on boxingchat reveal yourself, you obviously have inside knowledge of all things Sports Network come out and say who you are. You either work for FW or know him well. Why hide?

nickd wrote:Come on boxingchat reveal yourself, you obviously have inside knowledge of all things Sports Network come out and say who you are. You either work for FW or know him well. Why hide?

Rumour has it he's hiding in Franks pants!!... :( 8)

silkov wrote:

nickd wrote:Come on boxingchat reveal yourself, you obviously have inside knowledge of all things Sports Network come out and say who you are. You either work for FW or know him well. Why hide?

Rumour has it he's hiding in Franks pants!!... :( 8)

There's no flies on him

Bit sad if Boxinghat is a SN employee...with Skelton Vs Williams, Calzaghe Vs Lacy, Lockett Vs Rhodes and Harrison Vs Guzman all on within a month (subject to change :P ) I wouldn't have thought that Frank would be too bothered about Ricky scrambling around for an opponent.

My T Sharp wrote:Bit sad if Boxinghat is a SN employee...with Skelton Vs Williams, Calzaghe Vs Lacy, Lockett Vs Rhodes and Harrison Vs Guzman all on within a month (subject to change :P ) I wouldn't have thought that Frank would be too bothered about Ricky scrambling around for an opponent.

Obviously Frank is. Maybe Frank is sore that now Ricky has gone elsewhere SN has to actually start making some competitive matchups for a change!... we all owe Ricky a debt of thanks for that....

silkov wrote:

My T Sharp wrote:Bit sad if Boxinghat is a SN employee...with Skelton Vs Williams, Calzaghe Vs Lacy, Lockett Vs Rhodes and Harrison Vs Guzman all on within a month (subject to change :P ) I wouldn't have thought that Frank would be too bothered about Ricky scrambling around for an opponent.

Obviously Frank is. Maybe Frank is sore that now Ricky has gone elsewhere SN has to actually start making some competitive matchups for a change!... we all owe Ricky a debt of thanks for that....

...and Sky for cancelling Franks contract It'll probably go full circle though with Frank putting on great matches and building up a great following before Sky wade in with a huge contract to sign up Khan and SN...then it will be back to the WBU shite.

My T Sharp wrote:

silkov wrote:

My T Sharp wrote:Bit sad if Boxinghat is a SN employee...with Skelton Vs Williams, Calzaghe Vs Lacy, Lockett Vs Rhodes and Harrison Vs Guzman all on within a month (subject to change :P ) I wouldn't have thought that Frank would be too bothered about Ricky scrambling around for an opponent.

Obviously Frank is. Maybe Frank is sore that now Ricky has gone elsewhere SN has to actually start making some competitive matchups for a change!... we all owe Ricky a debt of thanks for that....

...and Sky for cancelling Franks contract It'll probably go full circle though with Frank putting on great matches and building up a great following before Sky wade in with a huge contract to sign up Khan and SN...then it will be back to the WBU shite.

Too true!! that'll probably happen just in time for Khans vacant WBU title shot against TBC!!!.... kHAN will then make 20 defences before spliting with Frank and bringing in his family as his promoters