Hatton: Two fights and im done....

[frozensolid_702]

Malinaggi then Pacquaio or Oscar at Wembley 100,000 sell out.

BBC SPORT | Boxing | Hatton targeting Pacquiao finale

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Fighting Paulie in his first fight is a great move. Fighting Pacquiao in his second fight instead of Oscar is even better.


If they hold this in England, then Hatton's gonna make huge money whether he fights Oscar or Manny.


Here's the difference............... He has a shot at Manny, but Oscar would crush him. Hatton is GREAT at 140 and below, but has no buisness at 147 or higher. Plus, beating Pac would mean a helluva lot more at this stage in his career than beating Oscar.

[Markusdarkus]

Malinaggi then Pacquaio or Oscar at Wembley 100,000 sell out.

BBC SPORT | Boxing | Hatton targeting Pacquiao finale

Audio player on the site with full interview.

Fighting Paulie in his first fight is a great move. Fighting Pacquiao in his second fight instead of Oscar is even better.


If they hold this in England, then Hatton's gonna make huge money whether he fights Oscar or Manny.


Here's the difference............... He has a shot at Manny, but Oscar would crush him. Hatton is GREAT at 140 and below, but has no buisness at 147 or higher. Plus, beating Pac would mean a helluva lot more at this stage in his career than beating Oscar.

Oscar is too big for Hatton, Hattons only hope would be to box for 6rds then try and pick it up.

Manny has proved his style is suited to him movinmg up he is also pretty tall for a guy that started at 106lbs.

At Wembly against the P4P king at Hattons best weight would be a monster maybe bigger than Oscar vs Mayweather.

[Gandalf]

Two fights sounds about right. Ricky's style doesnt mix with someone heading into their 30's so he's on the ball in terms of knowing when enough is enough. I dont want to see him fight Oscar though. Oscar is too big and Hatton just doesnt function at his best outside of 140. A Pac fight at Wembley would be an ideal closer.

[HattonTheHammer]

Two fights sounds about right. Ricky's style doesnt mix with someone heading into their 30's so he's on the ball in terms of knowing when enough is enough. I dont want to see him fight Oscar though. Oscar is too big and Hatton just doesnt function at his best outside of 140. A Pac fight at Wembley would be an ideal closer.

could you imagine 90,000 philipino`s and mancs in the same arena

all out carnage inside and outside the ring!!

[rjj tszyu]

Whatever Hatton does he will in my eyes be remembered as one of the greatest britsh fighters of all time. Above Calzaghe!

Predictions :

Hatton v Mallignaggi = Hatton wins 4rd KO
Hatton v Pacquiao = Hatton wins rsf 8-10rd

Retire and hopefully never come back.

[GAME]

If Hatton has any sense he will do his best to get the Pac fight .

If he fights Oscar he will get knocked out

[Gandalf]

Two fights sounds about right. Ricky's style doesnt mix with someone heading into their 30's so he's on the ball in terms of knowing when enough is enough. I dont want to see him fight Oscar though. Oscar is too big and Hatton just doesnt function at his best outside of 140. A Pac fight at Wembley would be an ideal closer.

could you imagine 90,000 philipino`s and mancs in the same arena

all out carnage inside and outside the ring!!

Could be incredible if it comes off. Would be a huge event. Hatton just keeps on making his fights bigger and bigger occasions and you cannot top it off any bigger than a fight at Wembley and in full view of the world.

[LeftHookToTheBody]

Sounds like a sensible plan to me. He seemed slightly on the decline in his last fight; the Hatton of 2005 doesn't let Lazcano past the 8th. He doesn't need to carry on much longer, and really there aren't any big fights to make at 140. I think the Pac-man bout would be sensational, but Pac-man's vastly superior hand and foot speed will be too much. People say that Hatton's too strong, but Pac has the advantage in every other department, and I'll take speed over strength 9 times out of 10. Pac by UD or possibly late TKO.

[sonny78]

This is a prime example of how quick things can change for boxers, after the Mayweather fight I saw nowhere to go for Hatton he should have taken Witter on comeback he would have destroyed him, but with Witter gone there was simply no one left to fight, I don't see Paulie as that much of a challenge for Hatton, Paulie will never hurt hatton (unless he flicks him with his hair) so Hatton will come forward face first and smash his ribs up I see Hatton looking good against Paulie.

Hatton desperately needed a mega fight (one he has a chance of winning) and the only one out there is Manny but if he looked small or slow at 135 - 140 then people would say Hatton was picking a lose lose fight with a much smaller guy but what Manny showed against Diaz was that a tear up with Hatton could be one of the best fights of either of these guys careers as long as Manny can take shots from Hatton and protects his body (JMM caught and hurt him to the body) this has all out war written all over it I will sell my girlfriend to be there

I have felt sorry for Hatton because that career defining fight seemed to be nowhere in sight now, It could be just round the corner he will retire after this only if he wins.

[Mark TKO]

Makes sense - and is what everyone expected. Not sure about the Malignaggi fight being in Vegas though ?? Thought he wanted to fight at MSG before he retired ?

Still I reckon Malignaggi is an easy night for Ricky

Has to be Manny to finish - not Oscar - and he would sell Wembley out for that I have no doubt

[HattonTheHammer]

Id of liked 3 more and then it

Malignaggi is a no brainer as he holds a genuine title and hatton dearly wants that fight at the garden

Pacman at wembley seems as good as set in stone barring any disasters though i suspect vegas will want in on that

Would like to see ricky give the torres/holt winner a fight as it would completely unify the 140 division.