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Its fairly inevitable that Hattons US debut will be shown live on Sky Sports PPV at stupid-o'clock in the morning (4am start maybe?). Its also fairly inevitable that Ricky wont be fighting an elite fighter of the division, early indications were good (remember the 4man shortlist back in january) but with only 65odd days left till fight night and still no announcment on an opponent I think we can all agree its going to be what I'd call a dissapointment, especially for a unified champion.

So my question is this, how many of you will be paying the £14.99 to watch the hatton v TBA in foxwoods, and how many will take a stance against the overpriced tripe that I feel will be served up. 150,000 buys for Hatton Maussa (i think). More or less for his next defence? Surely less if rabah is announced?

I will becuase although we hear it may not be an elite boxer in the other corner, the fact Hatton has gone to America to defend his title warrants support.

How many others seem prepared to do that?

I don't see what's so valiant about Ricky going to the US.

He's had enough marking time fights ffs.

And fighting a B-list opponent (which now seems inevitable) hardly makes his task Herculean.

No way am I paying £15 to watch, unless It's against a decent worthy opponent.

Who am I kidding, I'll watch it online for £2

Depends

Harris - yes
Witter - certainly ill buy 3
Castillo - yes
Lazcano - maybe
Rabah - no
Freitas - no
Diaz - maybe

No way if it's another B level opponent - plunking down for the PPV just encourages them to keep taking the piss.

Depends on the undercard.

It says a lot when your own countrymen will not pay to watch you fight in a different country. Hatton only has himself to blame though, he really has fought complete garbage for years and is continuing that thread, much to the dismay of certain posters here.

It was a similar story with Calzaghe. Many of his own countrymen were hoping he'd get beaten for a long time. Finally he fought Lacy when he simply had no other option.

I'll be buying it whoever it is, for the sake of a couple of quid

I'll get a couple of mates round, purchase a bag of goodies and get leathered (NB: remember to tape the fight though, so you can see what really happened)

I will, because I am addicted to boxing and because Hatton's fights are always action-packed.

Chambers2 wrote:I'll be buying it whoever it is, for the sake of a couple of quid

I'll get a couple of mates round, purchase a bag of goodies and get leathered (NB: remember to tape the fight though, so you can see what really happened)

well said that man. big fight nights are a bloody good excuse to get your good mates over and have a larf, as Jim Mc will tell you its familiar faces always round mine, and sometimes the only time we all get together at the same time other than stags or weddings, for this reason aswell as the boxing I dont miss em.

Given that it's going to be on round about the time I'll be getting in, pissed, I think it's almost inevitable that it'll get ordered.......

I've ordered some shite in my time.

I Will be, he's the only ppv fighter in Britain and he only fights twice a year so it's not too bad. whats good is getting all the american ppv fights on skysports for fornicate all. lol

Whats with the censorship?

Cannibal wrote:Depends on the undercard.

I'm sure i read that the plan was to have Clinton Woods & Hatton fight on the same night, but have Clinton fight in England & Hatton in the USA, remember fight academy promote both fighters so you'd get the whole package on PPV i presume

Foggy wrote:

Cannibal wrote:Depends on the undercard.

I'm sure i read that the plan was to have Clinton Woods & Hatton fight on the same night, but have Clinton fight in England & Hatton in the USA, remember fight academy promote both fighters so you'd get the whole package on PPV i presume

Yeah, I heard that as well with Esham Pickering challenging for the IBF on the bill as well. If even one of those fights gets on the undercard I'd probably get it alright.

Sky wont get an extra penny from me. Ill pay to watch it online rather than give sky my hard earned cash, regardless of who hatton fights

E wrote:I will, because I am addicted to boxing and because Hatton's fights are always action-packed.

I wouldn't say action packed. His fights are repetitive snoozefests in my opinion. What's going to happen? Oh that's right Hattons going to bullrush in and throw punches. Whats going to happen now? Oh that's right Hattons going to bullrush in and throw punches.

Kind of gets boring when you've seen him do it to so many poor fighters.

Then no reason for you to ever watch him then.

I get so nervous when Hatton fights really wound up knot in my stomach, got the same thing watching Calzaghe beat Lacy even after it was clear he was winning hands down.
Does anybody else suffer from this?
or am i just a nervous wreck?

maxx wrote:I get so nervous when Hatton fights really wound up knot in my stomach, got the same thing watching Calzaghe beat Lacy even after it was clear he was winning hands down.
Does anybody else suffer from this?
or am i just a nervous wreck?

Everytime I watch North Carolina play hoops, I get it.

Given that it's going to be on round about the time I'll be getting in, pissed, I think it's almost inevitable that it'll get ordered.......

I've ordered some shite in my time.

That's the funniest thing I've read on here in a while

There's no much consistency with PPV shows - not that anybody can guarantee that a given fight will definitely be a blockbuster, but the line-ups on a PPV show can be worse than the all-nighter shows that Sky occasionally put on. You think they'd push the boat out a bit and improve the quality of the bouts on offer - that they don't, makes me wonder why the PPV revenue isn't spread out more evenly across the card. A top notch main event doesn't, in itself, justify a PPV charge if the rest of the show sucked.