Remember whilst Hatton was winning the fight he was taking heavy punches from Sevencko (spelling) because Ricky had stopped moving his head.
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Re: If hatton had an easier return to boxing
Remember whilst Hatton was winning the fight he was taking heavy punches from Sevencko (spelling) because Ricky had stopped moving his head.
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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.
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Let me ask the forum this....
The year is 2008, Diego Corrales doesn't die in a motorcycle crash but rededicates himself to boxing and tries out 140 where Ricky Hatton is just coming off a defeat to Mayweather. Or 2005 when Corrals has beaten JLC and Hatton has just beaten Mausa ...Ricky Hatton vs Diego Corrales - who wins and how 2008 & 2005?
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Hatton in 2008 for sure. 2005 I'd still lean Hatton as Chico wasn't much good above 135. The body was willing but the power wasn't quite there n he got hit often so against bigger guys that was trouble.Originally Posted by El Kabong
Woulda been a hell of a match in 2005 though.
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Man that's tough one. Might just depend on what 'rededicate' entails for me as Chico was halfway out the exit door with Clottey in a bloated BS catchweight match he had no business in. That was rough. Absent a comeback and fresh off ko loss to Mayweather though I honestly think its a coin flip fight with slight lean maybe to Ricky on volume and body. We have the advantage of hindsight with Ricky, who frankly found himself in a scrappier than expected return against another former lightweight Juan Lazcano..a fighter in the last start of his career who managed to hurt Ricky late and landed more left hooks than he should have for a bit there. It was a whirlwind show and awesome return by Hatton, active and frontal as ever, but he could always be checked with range and pop. Chico had been struggling for years making weight, he should have moved up well before honestly.
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Yeah Chico and JLC both should have gone to 140 earlier and I think before their war they both would have offered Hatton the exact same kind of blood and guts fight.
I used to think Hatton-Gatti would have been the best fight but the more I think about it Hatton-Corrales would have been mighty nice for the fans.
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Ricky wins 2005 as he was still near his best but loses 2008.Man that's tough one. Might just depend on what 'rededicate' entails for me as Chico was halfway out the exit door with Clottey in a bloated BS catchweight match he had no business in. That was rough. Absent a comeback and fresh off ko loss to Mayweather though I honestly think its a coin flip fight with slight lean maybe to Ricky on volume and body. We have the advantage of hindsight with Ricky, who frankly found himself in a scrappier than expected return against another former lightweight Juan Lazcano..a fighter in the last start of his career who managed to hurt Ricky late and landed more left hooks than he should have for a bit there. It was a whirlwind show and awesome return by Hatton, active and frontal as ever, but he could always be checked with range and pop. Chico had been struggling for years making weight, he should have moved up well before honestly.
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See I'm thinking he loses in 2005 but wins in 2008 because Chico would have been (r.i.p) still reeling from that hammering he took at the hands of Clottey so you didn't know if his head and heart were still in boxing at the time of his sudden and tragic death in 2007.
That said....man what an action fight that would have been! It's the junior welterweight version of a Tyson vs Bowe matchup. You've got a taller guy who likes to mix it up on the inside vs a stockier guy who is a pressure fighter so there would just never be 1 second of rest for the two.
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