Hatton to fight 24th May: Vs Torres, Holt or Demetrius Hopkins

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Originally Posted by No Contest

The problem in the Floyd fight was not Floyds power, but his speed and accuracy. Torres is way more hittable than Floyd and I think hatton could hurt him easier than Floyd. This should turn out like the Cotto Torres fight a brawl where both hit the canvas. Torres was down twice in the Holt fight, but yeah any fight at Hatton level is gonna come with risk, not taking risks is what people will bring up if he fights Rees then Malignaggi, two light punching boxers. Theres risks there too he could get outboxed by PM, Rees I know very little about....

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Rees is the weakest champ at 140, he is a decent fighter but he won the title off an uninterested Souleymane M'baye. When any of the elite Jr Welterweight's fight him he will lose big time.

Ree's should be a lightweight. At Lightweight Kahn and Thaxton are actually better. He's a poor champ.

Have Holt and Hopkins fight each other on the undercard.

And Hatton fight Witter in the main event.

Problem solved.

Don't know where Torres goes though. But I think Holt would beat him in a rematch.

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Originally Posted by TitoFan

Hatton's a tough brawler who likes to come forward. But he was rocked by Luis Collazo, who's not exactly a huge puncher... and got KO'd by Floyd. If he were to get caught by a bomb from Torres, it might be "nighty-night Ricky".

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Yea but Collazo and Floyd are both skilled boxers, who on those nights took Ricky apart gradually, and only hurt him late when he was heavily fatigued. I don't think he has a bad chin at all, least when he's fresh he can take punishment. Torres would fight in a manner that Hatton would fair better against imo, he's going to be there early, and he'll stay close trying to land big hooks on Hatton all night. Ricky is supposed to have the edge in that sort of fight, no? I don't imagine anyone would give Torres a good chance before Hatton fought Floyd.. I guess we'll see if it really took a lot out of him as people seem to think.

Well it looks like Holt is out of the running, he's gonna fight Ben Tackie on a Versus card early Feb. That leaves the door wide open for either Torres or Rees, with Hopkins fighting Witter.

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Originally Posted by No Contest

Well it looks like Holt is out of the running, he's gonna fight Ben Tackie on a Versus card early Feb. That leaves the door wide open for either Torres or Rees, with Hopkins fighting Witter.

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Yeah I saw that earlier too, everything seems to be falling into place now.

With Ray Hatton ruling out Rees yesterday, Torres looks more and more likely. Which (Witter aside) was the match-up us fans wanted anyway.

It does seem to be Torres and I think thats great!