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Posted: 23 Jan 2008, 11:45
by J
thing is I agree hatton should fight witter before he hangs em up, just dont see the need to call him every name under the sun and ridicule one of our finest boxing exports in the past 20 years.
Posted: 23 Jan 2008, 13:09
by Cap
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
Posted: 23 Jan 2008, 13:16
by Chambers2
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 Witter is WBC Light Welter champ and IMO hes the best fighter at 140.
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
Posted: 23 Jan 2008, 13:25
by Asterix
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
Demetrius Hopkins. :)
Posted: 23 Jan 2008, 13:36
by WildWaylon
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
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!!!
Posted: 23 Jan 2008, 14:34
by Punchy Joe
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.
Posted: 23 Jan 2008, 17:36
by DG.
Chambers2 wrote:
Caption!
'My man of te people shite has been rumbled!
Fook dat, I am not fighting Witter! - I retire, lack of balls.er..um...motivation!
Ticklinggggggggggggggggggggggggg!!!
Posted: 24 Jan 2008, 06:08
by Chambers2
Junior 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."
Looks as though Witter sees it the same as the rest of the sane-population
Posted: 24 Jan 2008, 06:32
by Captain Hook
Yeah right.....
He's not bothered about making lots ofm oney because he's very, very boring and does not capture the imagination.
Posted: 24 Jan 2008, 11:53
by DG.
Captain Hook wrote:Yeah right.....
He's not bothered about making lots ofm oney because he's very, very boring and does not capture the imagination.
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!
Posted: 22 Feb 2008, 09:54
by DG.
Lets club together and get Hatton a one way ticket to the states!!
Posted: 22 Feb 2008, 09:56
by Poncey
I thought this thread was for Ricky Gervais.
Oh well.
Posted: 22 Feb 2008, 10:40
by DG.
Emerson Poncey Name Ghent wrote:I thought this thread was for Ricky Gervais.
Oh well.
Posted: 22 Feb 2008, 11:01
by hitman_hatton1
DG. wrote:Lets club together and get Hatton a one way ticket to the states!!
flog the porsche.
i'm sure that will raise the cash.
Posted: 22 Feb 2008, 11:43
by Rocky Balboa
silkov wrote:banjo wrote:you cant compare hatton to the chinless wonder that is vivian(
girls name) harris
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.
Hattons style is made for Witter...
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!
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!
Posted: 22 Feb 2008, 15:49
by DG.
hitman_hatton1 wrote:DG. wrote:Lets club together and get Hatton a one way ticket to the states!!
flog the porsche.
i'm sure that will raise the cash.
Shut it!