WBC Boxing Champ Witter Renews Challenge To Hatton

“Fight Me Or Quit!”

Junior Witter, Bradford’s newly crowned WBC light welterweight titleholder, has called on Ricky Hatton to stop making excuses, put his title’s on the table and step in the ring.

Speaking on Bradford’s The Pulse radio station, Witter said: “Can I batter Ricky Hatton? Yeah. It’s a fight I want. It’s a fight the boxing public deserve. It’s just a case that Ricky Hatton just doesn’t seem to want it at the minute. He’s come up with every excuse under the sun. Before I had the world title he kept saying it’s because I haven’t got a world title. Now I have a world title he’s saying it’s about people he wants to fight, not titles.

“He’s constantly changing his excuses. First it was Frank Warren didn’t want to do it. Now he’s his own promoter he said TV weren’t interested. Sky are interested. HBO are interested. Showtime are interested. They will all do it.

“He’s now turned around and found another excuse. It’s a case of one day he’ll have nowhere left to run. He’ll have to fight me or retire. If Hatton won’t fight me then there are other champions out there that I need to get rid of as well.

When asked why Hatton wouldn’t want to fight him, Witter said: “When you’re a good talent and slightly awkward, I can make people look bad as well as beat them up. It’s an unfortunate fact that a lot of people don’t want to box me.”