If hatton had an easier return to boxing

[Spicoli]

Let me ask the forum this....

The year is 2008, Diego Corrales doesn't die in a motorcycle crash but rededicates himself to boxing and tries out 140 where Ricky Hatton is just coming off a defeat to Mayweather. Or 2005 when Corrals has beaten JLC and Hatton has just beaten Mausa ...Ricky Hatton vs Diego Corrales - who wins and how 2008 & 2005?

Man that's tough one. Might just depend on what 'rededicate' entails for me as Chico was halfway out the exit door with Clottey in a bloated BS catchweight match he had no business in. That was rough. Absent a comeback and fresh off ko loss to Mayweather though I honestly think its a coin flip fight with slight lean maybe to Ricky on volume and body. We have the advantage of hindsight with Ricky, who frankly found himself in a scrappier than expected return against another former lightweight Juan Lazcano..a fighter in the last start of his career who managed to hurt Ricky late and landed more left hooks than he should have for a bit there. It was a whirlwind show and awesome return by Hatton, active and frontal as ever, but he could always be checked with range and pop. Chico had been struggling for years making weight, he should have moved up well before honestly.

[El Kabong]

Yeah Chico and JLC both should have gone to 140 earlier and I think before their war they both would have offered Hatton the exact same kind of blood and guts fight.

I used to think Hatton-Gatti would have been the best fight but the more I think about it Hatton-Corrales would have been mighty nice for the fans.

[Master]

Let me ask the forum this....

The year is 2008, Diego Corrales doesn't die in a motorcycle crash but rededicates himself to boxing and tries out 140 where Ricky Hatton is just coming off a defeat to Mayweather. Or 2005 when Corrals has beaten JLC and Hatton has just beaten Mausa ...Ricky Hatton vs Diego Corrales - who wins and how 2008 & 2005?

Man that's tough one. Might just depend on what 'rededicate' entails for me as Chico was halfway out the exit door with Clottey in a bloated BS catchweight match he had no business in. That was rough. Absent a comeback and fresh off ko loss to Mayweather though I honestly think its a coin flip fight with slight lean maybe to Ricky on volume and body. We have the advantage of hindsight with Ricky, who frankly found himself in a scrappier than expected return against another former lightweight Juan Lazcano..a fighter in the last start of his career who managed to hurt Ricky late and landed more left hooks than he should have for a bit there. It was a whirlwind show and awesome return by Hatton, active and frontal as ever, but he could always be checked with range and pop. Chico had been struggling for years making weight, he should have moved up well before honestly.

Ricky wins 2005 as he was still near his best but loses 2008.

[El Kabong]

Ricky wins 2005 as he was still near his best but loses 2008.

See I'm thinking he loses in 2005 but wins in 2008 because Chico would have been (r.i.p) still reeling from that hammering he took at the hands of Clottey so you didn't know if his head and heart were still in boxing at the time of his sudden and tragic death in 2007.


That said....man what an action fight that would have been! It's the junior welterweight version of a Tyson vs Bowe matchup. You've got a taller guy who likes to mix it up on the inside vs a stockier guy who is a pressure fighter so there would just never be 1 second of rest for the two.

[ryanman]

Hatton could have and should have taken an easier opponent (as should have Winky Wright when he did his come back) but only as a last farewell fight to the fans. Hatton was never a good welterweight when he was at his peak and he certainly would not have been after the Pac defeat.

Would you agree someone like Curtis Woodhouse would have been ideal for the British title?

As much as we respect the British title, to go from Pacquiao in Vegas to Curtis Woodhouse for the British title would not be be a step that someone with the fighting pride of Hatton could contemplate, comeback fight or not.