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Gatti wants to go out with a bang - v Hatton!! Bwaaaaaaaaah ha ha ha!!!
Gatti wants to go out with a bang - v Hatton
http://www.secondsout.com/usa/lusal....s=473&cs=20078
By Ant Evans: No big name fighter wants to go out on a loser and it will surprise no-one that Arturo Gatti, the fading two division world champion who made himself a folk hero to millions with his blazing style, is considering one final fight after suffering his latest defeat.
Gatti, now 34, was beaten down in nine rounds by welterweight champion Carlos Baldomir on July 22. Gatti boxed well early on, he was quick of hand and nimble on his feet and yet, even against a relatively light puncher like the Argentinean, his balance was overthrown whenever he took a clean shot.
Despite giving everything he had left, the 'Thunder' failed. And, yes, Gatti has come back from losses before to reinvent himself at a higher weight or with a modified style but with his punch resistance obviously floundering it was assumed that Gatti would be retiring from boxing.
However, Gatti's trainer Buddy McGirt told SecondsOut: "Arturo could probably have one more fight. I don't think he'll want to go out like he did against Baldomir."
And according to McGirt, boxing's warrior-born won't be interesting in some glorified exhibition against an opponent selected for slaughter.
McGirt said: "I don't think it would be an easy fight. He would want to go out with a bang, not just ask people to pay to see him and have an easy fight. That's not Arturo.
"He'll pick someone like Ricky Hatton, someone who will really make him fight. That's how he'd like to go out. I think he'd still want to fight Hatton, as long as it was at 147lbs. Arturo can't make 140lbs anymore no matter what (he does in the gym). Baldomir is a huge 147lbs fighter but Hatton isn't. That could still be a great fight."
Hatton, meanwhile, is still considering his options in the wake of the Gatti defeat. The reigning WBA welterweight champion and consensus 'world linear' junior welterweight champion will return to action on December 9 but co-promoters Fight Academy and Banner Promotions have yet to announce whether the Hitman will be defending his WBA 147lbs belt against No.1 contender Oktay Urkal, or move back down to 140lbs (10stone) to face unbeaten Urango in attempt to reclaim the IBF title he was forced to give up several months back.
The later move is thought to set-up an early 2007 super-fight at 140lbs against Jose Luis Castillo.
Although it would probably do well on HBO, whether or not a Gatti fight is still of interest to Hatton remains to be seen.
But McGirt still believes that, against a smaller man than Baldomir who doesn't have the pure boxing style of Floyd Mayweather, Gatti could still upset the Hitman. He said: "Arturo was boxing well against Baldomir. I had the fight even going into that final round but Baldomir was just too strong, there's no ifs nor buts about it.
"It wasn't that but when you fight a bigger guy, y'know, if he drops water on the rock for long enough the rock will break. But Hatton isn't a bigger man."
This disgusted me so much that I wanted to start a poll over it...just to see what you all thought.
Please...answer with whatever you want...but for the record...the above read is gotdam ridiculous IWO!
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He obviously isn't intent on going out on top, just with a war. Love it.
Originally Posted by The Game
Agreed.
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