Hatton struggling with a virus fight goes on!

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Ricky gets a cold or flu before every fight.

Why?

Because he allows himself to baloon out of shape, kills himself in training and weakens his immune system.

You beat me to it the best post on this topic so far.

The only way his immune system would be weak is if he had severley over-trained. If he had severley over-trained for every fight, his in the ring perfromance would be absolutely awful everytime he fought. This obviously isn't the case.

I know his lifestyle isn't ideal but to say thats the reason he gets cold or flu isn't very factual.

I also find it hard to believe that Kerry Kayes would allow him to over-train.

I can only think of two recent occassions where he has been ill before a fight. Against Urango and now.

When you consider that his training camp is 12 weeks long and he has 2 fights per year, this equals 24 weeks of training. 24 weeks without a cold would be pretty exceptional (or lucky) by anyone's standards.

When you consider that the average person has between 3-4 colds per year, it's very hard to prove that his lifestyle has anything to do with him catching Colds.

Interestingly the most common time to catch a cold is between September and May. He fought Urango in January and the Lazcano illness will most likely have started in late April.