Welcome back ricky....

[littlebif]

i'm a big Hatton fan, i was hoping if he does come back he fights someone that he will win then retire on a good note. He's 33 he was an aggressive fighter, fighters with his style dont stay in the game for to long unless he changes his style which he isnt going to do.

I hope he comes back gets a win and relizes he isnt as good as he was and retires with a win that i think he deserves.

I hope i can get tickets for his fight if he does come back otherwise i will not be happy.

[THE PHILOSOPHER]

Look when i say lets not be synical im saying it with a sense of perspective also...no one is seriously suggesting he will become unified LWW champ again (not even ricky think's that i can asure you!) Nor do we expect him to steam roll over numerous world class opponents like he used to do, He never meant for the pacman fight to be his last, he deserves to finish on a high and fight a couple of farewell, fights for himself and his fans! Why would no one support such honourable intentions and hatton fights are HUGEEEEE, every fighter and boxing fan alike will scramble for tickets!! Wladimir klitschko is a massive hatton fan believe it or not! It will be good for some of the younger british fighters too to experience the hatton show!

Hatton was special, he just was, froch and hatton are cut from the same cloth yet carl never captured the public imagination like hatton for some reason! Calzaghe only ever courted the mass attention following lacy, most ppl followed hatton right from the get go, a lot of boxing fans grew up watching him and it is nice to know the show isn't over quite yet. Fighters like hatton come along once a generation, there's no one on coming through like him so we should appreciate him a little more, the sport is a far duller place without him!

Most fighters have problems dealing with life after the ring, i can list a dozen fighters straight off the top of my head that spiralled into vice following there careers, until u experience such highs and then come crashing down you should not judge! He should be commended for turning a shitty time into a positive, and believe me i hate most sportsmen, they are overpaid pre madonnas, on any other occasion i would be on here saying 'poor, over paid, pampered milionaire bla bla bla...' but hatton is a genuine guy and i think he deserves better.

And for the guy whining about he will fight some old LW or some nobody, i doubt it personally, its pointless coming back, they will be a couple of decent oponents, maybe not a cotto but someone worthy, and if he performs well who knows.....

Thats if he does come back, it's still not definite!!

[Kirkland Laing]

It's a bit much bashing somebody for "going off the rails" when they're only engaging in behaviour that's generally socially acceptable. Drink and social drugs are both fine with the majority of people, where is he going off any rails?

His career came to an abrupt end with a shattering KO. At the level he was boxing at, the spectacularity of the KO and the fact that he was basically at the end of his prime and only going downhill from then on meant he retired. And then he behaved exactly like almost every wealthy young guy behaves, well within those parameters actually. Look at how many famous people you hear doing exactly the same sort of stuff and they're just the ones who get caught/don't have PR people to kill the stories in the media.

If he wants to come back to go out on a win then I'm right behind him. If he looks like he's got something left, and I don't think he will have, maybe another shot at a title, but hopefully he beats some journeyman up and goes out on a win.