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Quote Originally Posted by bilbo
First of all, lets get one thing out of the way, Ricky Hatton will never fight Oscar De La Hoya or Floyd Mayweather. These two would never, ever, ever happen.

Ricky is a great junior welterweight but he's been far surpassed by the likes of Oscar and Floyd, two guys who have ambitions way beyond fighting Ricky Hatton.

Oscar wants to beat the best p4p fighter in the world, Floyd wants world titles at 5 different weights so neither is going to move down two divisions to face Hatton, and Hattone certainly isn't going to come up any time soon.


As for Ricky's future at 140, I think there are some good fights out there for him. The potential megafight with Castillo would be huge, Diego Coralles is rumoured to be moving up to 147 but will no doubt fancy a fight or two at 140 just to dip his toes, so two potential great matchups there.

A domestic showdown with Witter surely isn't too far away, I'd imagine negotiations would begin by the end of the year if both are still world champions for a fight in the summer of 2008 or thereabouts.

Looking to the future there are two or three potential big names coming to 140 lb.

Lamont Peterson could be in position to launch a title challenge by 2008 and Britain's own Amir Khan will probably be at world level around 2009. I'd expect Khan to be a light welter by the end of 2008 at the latest so I'm sure a big showdown between the pair of them could happen some time in the future.

As for the guys above him, I honestly don't give Hatton a shot against any of the top guys at 147 lb.

Margarito is too big, so is Williams, Mayweather would dance rings around him, Cotto would batter him at 147 lb.

I don't honestly see any success for Hatton at 147, I couldn't see him beating Cintron to be honest.

Ricky is a great all action fighter, but the truth is he isn't as good as people make out.

He's the best there is at 140 now, no question, but tht is largely due to the fact that his biggest rivals at the weight have all moved up succesfully, something which Ricky unfortunately didn't manage to do


Ricky was tentatively offered the Oscar fight whilst Floyd was twiddling on his thumb deciding so thats not 100% true now is it?!

And if Floyd loses to Oscar, the next big fight out there for him alongside Cotto is Hatton. So to say it will never ever happen is wide of the mark

Hatton would get rid of Cintron in the same way Miguel did. Once he was hit to the body he didn't want to know

And if moving up a weight and winning the World title isn't successful I don't know what is?
Firstly after Mayweather if De La Hoya does fight on he'll fight either Winky Wright or Shane Mosely for a third time. Its possible he would face Trinidad if he came out of retirement but I'd say that would be unlikely.

The most likely outcome is that Oscar retires following the Mayweather fight, if not then a fight with his partner Winky would probably be the most likely. Hatton no way in hell. How is Oscar going to get down to 140? And you think Hatton would move up to 154lb? That ain't happening.

As for Mayweather, win or lose he will (providing he fights on) be looking soley at the 154lb division. He is far morel likely to chase a match with Cory Spinks or Travis Simms than he is to go backwards and drop two divisions to fight Ricky Hatton, whose star has already been replaced by Miguel Cotto.

As for Cotto dropping Cintron with a bodypunch, I am afraid this fight has never happened, unless you were lucky enough to see them sparring?

It was Quintana that Cotto beat in his last fight, he has never fought Cintron.

Cintron has only one defeat on his record to Margarito, but at 5 ft 11 and with knockout power in both hands I'd say Cintron would have far too much for Ricky Hatton.

Hatton relies on bullying his opponents, he sure as hell couldn't bully Cintron who could probably quite easily make 160 if he wanted. Cintron is a big lad.