Witter willing to take 30%

[Violent Demise]

There's no substance to the statement. They both have fights lined up in the coming months so it's not like he's submitted a formal offer saying 'i'll fight you at such a time for x amount of cash'

Hatton will fight him, when it's a mega-fight and for all those that say it would be a huge fight now......your only half right. It may be a huge fight to us anorak fans, but will it be a huge fight to the casual sports fan? Nope. Will it appeal to the American audience? Probably not that much....yet.

It becomes a huge fight in the UK when Witter is recognised by the average fan. That time aint here yet...it will come, but not until the end of the year or the start of next year.

It's all about timing with this fight. Realistically both guys know they're eachother's only realistic hope of a mega payday.

There's no point making the fight this year when Hatton has just come off a ko loss and Witter is still only about 50% as popular as he can and will be.

It makes much more sense to make it next year when Hatton has restored his reputation at 140 and Witter has built his to maximum potential.

That's just a stupid statement. Is Hatton-Lazcano a big fight? No. Yet Hatton is set to fight him. Was Hatton-Urango a big fight? No. Yet Hatton still fought him. Hatton needs to stop being a bitch and fight Witter

[ono]

That's just a stupid statement. Is Hatton-Lazcano a big fight? No. Yet Hatton is set to fight him. Was Hatton-Urango a big fight? No. Yet Hatton still fought him. Hatton needs to stop being a bitch and fight Witter

It only looks stupid cos you've quoted using clown size fonts.

I agree with what your saying....but thats my point.

If there was no potential for the fight to be any bigger or more lucrative than the Urango and Collazo fights, then i could follow your logic and i would be calling for the fight.

But there is potential for this fight to be a very big fight....if it's left a little bit longer.

There was never any potential for Urango or Collazo to be big fights....they were merely to showcase him to the American public (bad choices for showcase fights imo).

This fight has potential and people need to understand thats why it's not happening yet.

If it doesn't happen i'll be right behind you calling him a bitch, but i think we should put this to bed and give him the benefit of the doubt for now.....

[Violent Demise]

It only looks stupid cos you've quoted using clown size fonts.

I agree with what your saying....but thats my point.

If there was no potential for the fight to be any bigger or more lucrative than the Urango and Collazo fights, then i could follow your logic and i would be calling for the fight.

But there is potential for this fight to be a very big fight....if it's left a little bit longer.

There was never any potential for Urango or Collazo to be big fights....they were merely to showcase him to the American public (bad choices for showcase fights imo).

This fight has potential and people need to understand thats why it's not happening yet.

If it doesn't happen i'll be right behind you calling him a bitch, but i think we should put this to bed and give him the benefit of the doubt for now.....

Witter is as good as he's going to get. And he's as popular as he's going to get. He's also 33 years old. It won't be long before he starts losing his reflexes and some of his speed (maybe that's what Hatton is waiting for?). This fight needs to happen now.

[Preme]

If hatton doesn;t fight him soon i think it will seriously affect his long term legecy. sure he just fought the best p4p in the world, but who wouldn't with the money he got paid? He made more in that fight than he will make for the rest of his career and he knows it.

What really pissed me off big style was him spouting that crap about not fighitng witter and giving him his biggest pay day for bad mouthing hatton? making a name for him self off hatton's back?

first off Ricky just got his biggest pay day for shooting his mouth off about floyd, "coming down like russel crow fighting like that singer girl crow" "seen more action in my 4 rounds than floyds career".... that's how he got floyd, simple as.

Now seconed, does anyone actualy think witter has gained anything in terms of media interest, or fight hype, or even a better class of apponenets or bigger pay days for calling out hatton and taking swipes at him? I;m not a witter fan and have given him some shit over the years but IMO the boy has worked very hard with little recognition to be where he is and hold the WBC belt. Personaly it's ironic for hatton to say that, simply because in my opinion hatton has always overshadowed witter, take hatton out of the fight scene and the english press would of been hyping witter up a long long time ago, he would of most likely made moe money by now, had better fights by now and held more belts. After all the guy has only one loss to a very very good Zab judah at the time, no shame in that.

hatton talks about being a guy whom the fans can look too, well they have been looking to him for some time to shut up and fight witter, regardless of everything that has happened; looking at this from a purly boxing perspective, he is the champion with the ring belt, witter is number one... defend you;re belt or adleast be man enough to vacate it and admit you don't have it in you.

[Puya]

I will be very exited if this gets signed.

I was impress with Witter the way he handle Corley and Vivian Harris.( with ease)

[Kel]

I read in Metro today about this but the thing is HBO won't put the money up.

[Fenster]

HBO will put the money up for Lazcano though?

[Kel]

HBO will put the money up for Lazcano though?

Well yeah, the fights on with Lazcano so they must have. Good point it's daft really unless it's down to the fight probably being in UK so not many US punters. Who knows

[Pugilistic]

i predict the fight gets made later on this year or next year

[Barlick]

[QUOTE=Preme;465947]If hatton doesn;t fight him soon i think it will seriously affect his long term legecy. sure he just fought the best p4p in the world, but who wouldn't with the money he got paid? He made more in that fight than he will make for the rest of his career and he knows it.

What really pissed me off big style was him spouting that crap about not fighitng witter and giving him his biggest pay day for bad mouthing hatton? making a name for him self off hatton's back?

first off Ricky just got his biggest pay day for shooting his mouth off about floyd, "coming down like russel crow fighting like that singer girl crow" "seen more action in my 4 rounds than floyds career".... that's how he got floyd, simple as.QUOTE]

No, that's not how he got Floyd. He got Floyd because it made commercial sense, because he brought a proven pedigree, high profile and a massive following to the table. If Mayweather fought every guy who had a pop at him he'd be fighting every week.

[ono]

[quote=Barlick;466204]

If hatton doesn;t fight him soon i think it will seriously affect his long term legecy. sure he just fought the best p4p in the world, but who wouldn't with the money he got paid? He made more in that fight than he will make for the rest of his career and he knows it.

What really pissed me off big style was him spouting that crap about not fighitng witter and giving him his biggest pay day for bad mouthing hatton? making a name for him self off hatton's back?

first off Ricky just got his biggest pay day for shooting his mouth off about floyd, "coming down like russel crow fighting like that singer girl crow" "seen more action in my 4 rounds than floyds career".... that's how he got floyd, simple as.QUOTE]

No, that's not how he got Floyd. He got Floyd because it made commercial sense, because he brought a proven pedigree, high profile and a massive following to the table. If Mayweather fought every guy who had a pop at him he'd be fighting every week.

Exactly, Floyd fought him when it made financial and commercial sense to him. ...and that happened to be after Hatton gave out an impressive performance against Castillo.

Hatton will do the same thing with Witter and take the fight when it makes commercial and financial sense.....and that will probably be at the end of this year or the start of next year