Ricky Hatton has irritated me as of late...

[bambamdaddio]

Some of you really need to stop being so critical. Hatton is the best 140 in the world and hes going to prove that tommorow. PM is a good fighter and I dont deny that, but Hatton knows that he is tough as hell and he will do the business on him. The only fight Ive seen him struggle in bar the Mayweather fight was the Colloza one. He SCHOOL Urango apart from the 5th round and I believe he looked very dominant in his victory over Lazcano. Hes tough as nails ricky and he will apply too much pressure for PM to handle. PM will win rounds if ricky is snoozing but I cant see that happening. Hatton will win this fight I know he will!

Hatton UD

Bud I think most of the critisism is based around the Hatton circus .. not so much Rick the fighter...a great fighter no doubt, but some of the stuff surrounding the guy ie nuts tv, after dinner speaches letting his dad have too much say etc is whats getting up folks noses ... not Rick the fighter...

[skel1983]

Some of you really need to stop being so critical. Hatton is the best 140 in the world and hes going to prove that tommorow. PM is a good fighter and I dont deny that, but Hatton knows that he is tough as hell and he will do the business on him. The only fight Ive seen him struggle in bar the Mayweather fight was the Colloza one. He SCHOOL Urango apart from the 5th round and I believe he looked very dominant in his victory over Lazcano. Hes tough as nails ricky and he will apply too much pressure for PM to handle. PM will win rounds if ricky is snoozing but I cant see that happening. Hatton will win this fight I know he will!

Hatton UD

Bud I think most of the critisism is based around the Hatton circus .. not so much Rick the fighter...a great fighter no doubt, but some of the stuff surrounding the guy ie nuts tv, after dinner speaches letting his dad have too much say etc is whats getting up folks noses ... not Rick the fighter...

You know what mate i agree entirely, and its quite ironic as i feel this sort of behaviour is what people use to like, but imo he has become ever so boring with his usual "man of the people" statements and other similar comments, things like he would prefer not to be famous if he could be a boxer without the fame hed be a happy man and thats why he turned big brother down, so that explains why he seems to be on every chat show that exists on British television?

Hatton and his team have basically turned into a money machine and cash in at every possible oppurtunity and to me he has become the total opposite to the man of the people he claims to be.

[Kel]

Where can I see the weigh in?

[bambamdaddio]

Some of you really need to stop being so critical. Hatton is the best 140 in the world and hes going to prove that tommorow. PM is a good fighter and I dont deny that, but Hatton knows that he is tough as hell and he will do the business on him. The only fight Ive seen him struggle in bar the Mayweather fight was the Colloza one. He SCHOOL Urango apart from the 5th round and I believe he looked very dominant in his victory over Lazcano. Hes tough as nails ricky and he will apply too much pressure for PM to handle. PM will win rounds if ricky is snoozing but I cant see that happening. Hatton will win this fight I know he will!

Hatton UD

Bud I think most of the critisism is based around the Hatton circus .. not so much Rick the fighter...a great fighter no doubt, but some of the stuff surrounding the guy ie nuts tv, after dinner speaches letting his dad have too much say etc is whats getting up folks noses ... not Rick the fighter...

You know what mate i agree entirely, and its quite ironic as i feel this sort of behaviour is what people use to like, but imo he has become ever so boring with his usual "man of the people" statements and other similar comments, things like he would prefer not to be famous if he could be a boxer without the fame hed be a happy man and thats why he turned big brother down, so that explains why he seems to be on every chat show that exists on British television?

Hatton and his team have basically turned into a money machine and cash in at every possible oppurtunity and to me he has become the total opposite to the man of the people he claims to be.

Too right bud thats how it appears to me too & I love Ricky the fighter a shed load but I dont like what they are doing to him .... Ricky didnt need either selling to the public (Because thats something he does or did ? himself quite well enough, as he is a really likeable lad)
Or the Floyd "MONEY"Mayweather fight ... but greed got the better, but at what cost to his legacy in the long term..

The Ricky that really arrived that night in Manchester when he beat Kostya Tsu was a phenominal fighter & personality already, so why didnt they build on his Lite Welter legacy & tidy that whole area up .. I mean Gatti was a must fight for Rick as it was catching Gatti at the right time, but they shoud have tried for that before Mayweather got to him...then to have built on that by fighting Cotto a couple of years back, whom I think he would have punched holes in at Lite Welter...

So why not make those fights back when Ray Hatton got his grubby mitts too involved....was it because of the other fighters contractual obligations ? was it because they couldnt see the wood for the trees re Mayweather & just went for the money even tho he was never realistically gonna win the fight....(A fight Billy Graham never wanted ... why I wonder ?)

Or was the Hatton camp concerned re the class of opponents in the likes of Gatti & Cotto etc ... I dont think so some how..

Yet had he gone the Gatti, Cotto route & cleared everything up at lite welter he becomes a self made marketing machine as well as becoming far more attractive in the states where the money is & all because of his success in the ring ... no nuts tv, no christmas songs, no chat shows, no need for the family hype for The Family made man of the people...

Why because Rick had all the tools already in place even if he isnt or wasnt totally aware of it..Ricky Hatton & Frank Warren had the perfect package both as a fighter & commercially that night he beat Kostya Tsu..

And tho its all ifs & buts, but had he gone down the other path ... what price would a Mayweather fight bring now .... & how might his legacy be standing.....

Yet countering that because he has moved up & down a little between lite welter & welter,& given his admitance of his own excesive self indulgences inbetween fights, where will it leave his performance status now at this stage of his career, how much has been taken out, where even a little more stability earlier could have been paying dividends now ?

And just to add as a footnote .... I know Ive not mentioned all or hardly any of Ricks good points of which there are many...the reason being that we are already aware of them points re Rick ... Id also like to say that I am a big fan too of Ricky Hatton, & in no way is this meant to put him down in any way at all...more a criticism of some of the things & people making decisions around him & supposedly for him...

But at the end of the day these are just one blokes thoughts on circus Hatton .....& please feel free to correct me where ever I am factually wrong, or help me with the opinions expressed here in...

Yet for Saturday Night....

"COME ON RICKY ... BRING THE LITE WELTER TERROR BACK !!!"

[CGM]

I don't blame you for worrying. What are you going to say when hatton either refuses to fight pacquaio or loses to pacquaio because welterweight aint hatton's division LOL.