Quote Originally Posted by El Gamo
"The Hatton people were in New York visiting with HBO and the fighter they mentioned prominently as someone they wanted to fight at the end of the year, was Manny Pacquiao." (Arum talking)_

If Pacquiao gets by Marquez on March 15, he would move up in weight to 135-pounds to challenge David Diaz for the WBC lightweight title. The Diaz fight would probably happen in June/July. If he beats Diaz, the next step would be Hatton.

What a fwooking joke.IF Hatton takes this fight,it's pathetic. Fighting a former FLYWEIGHT.Whos' first and probably ONLY fight at 140 will be Hatton. Ricky has made enough money to be comfortable (surely?) and has far more worthy challengers like Witter and Paulie.

As for Manny,talk about SKIMMING divisions.This is THE perfect example of when someone talks about jumping weights and winning titles,and saying you're a mutiple weight champ,does not always look as good as it sounds. David Diaz?In a division where there are guys like Kats,Cas,Juan Diaz.
ITs not that big of a discrace... Manny has been weighing in at 144 at 130 so he too big for 130 or will be soon. ALso should he not be allowed an easy fight in David Diaz before going on to Hatton, can't he come back down. Besides Kats isn't very good, Casamayor hasn't done anything ground breaking in forever... so the only person I think he should face at 135 is Juan Diaz, but fighitng Hatton could lead to a 144 weight match against Mayweather who naturally weighs 150 which is where I would put Pacquaio's walking around weight at. Look what Henry Armstrong did moving up weights while being way smaller, look at Robinson going up... Pacquaio is building his legacy, and Hatton is showing balls for wanting to face a guy that matchup wise causes a lot of problems for him speed, southpaw, power, accuracy, endless stamina.