I would have liked to see Hatton go out with a win in England and it could have happened had his management gotten the right opponent. My choices for his farewell fight were mainly other old pressure fighters because it would have been an all action bout and that's how everyone wants to remember Ricky fighting.


Michael Katsidis was the PERFECT candidate for that. Pressure fighter, all heart, had good pop but not big time power. He tended to fade late and he was less durable than Ricky. I think that could have been a Gatti-Ward kind of fight and it's a shame we never saw it.

Juan Diaz
Nate Campbell
Jose Miguel Cotto
David Diaz
Jesus Chavez


Other fighters with different styles would have also been welcome crowd pleasing fights
Joel Casamayor
Joan Guzman
Erik Morales
Marco Antonio Barrera
Humberto Soto
Randall Bailey

And of course the local showdowns
Amir Khan
Junior Witter
Whoever else was around at the time

Etc...of course a lot of the guys I listed are/were smaller than 140 and well that's kind of the point to why he should have had a fight vs one of those dudes because he couldn't carry on at his best because he was just past it and no longer with the same trainer.