Vivien Harris v Ricky Hatton
Posted: 13 Jul 2004, 10:42
So at last it looks like the fight might be on, who do you think will win?
it seems to me to be a real 50/50 match, i'm slightly leaning towards Harris , he seems to be a highly motivated and dedicated man.
In his last defence he defeated Okal, in Germany. Theres not many boxers that go to the challengers backyard and win like he did.
also i'm concerned at the fact that Ricky Hatton seems to let his weight blow up between matches, over the course of a career you can let this happen a few times, but over time it gets harder to lose that excess weight and still stay as sharpe as you were before. Ricky put his last performance down to lack of motivation, but i'm not so sure it wasn't because of the weight loss draining him. Most boxers would say that 10 to 12lbs is the maximum that you should gain between bouts. He seemed to be alot over this in an interview 5 weeks prior to his last bout.
I go for Harris to win a tight decision.
it seems to me to be a real 50/50 match, i'm slightly leaning towards Harris , he seems to be a highly motivated and dedicated man.
In his last defence he defeated Okal, in Germany. Theres not many boxers that go to the challengers backyard and win like he did.
also i'm concerned at the fact that Ricky Hatton seems to let his weight blow up between matches, over the course of a career you can let this happen a few times, but over time it gets harder to lose that excess weight and still stay as sharpe as you were before. Ricky put his last performance down to lack of motivation, but i'm not so sure it wasn't because of the weight loss draining him. Most boxers would say that 10 to 12lbs is the maximum that you should gain between bouts. He seemed to be alot over this in an interview 5 weeks prior to his last bout.
I go for Harris to win a tight decision.