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Quote Originally Posted by killersheep
Quote Originally Posted by yoitsdan
Quote Originally Posted by killersheep
Quote Originally Posted by yoitsdan
Its a shame he has to fight Urkal but business is business and as champ you have to fulfill certain obligations, this being one of them. At least he'll get to showcase what he's really made of as a full blown welter. All in all it could be worse, he could be fighting Sharmba Mitchel!
How would fighting Sharmba Mitchell be worse?
He'd be sloppy 3rds, two of hattons biggest rivals have faught and beaten him well, Mitchell is really a 140 fighter, with hatton fighting another genuine 147 (more fights than sharmba at 147) we'll get to see his true credentials, from a boxing fans perspective its a better prospect.
Sharmba Mitchell is a very good fighter, not at the top tier, but very good, he is also a much more marketable name in America (where most of the paying fight fans are) his only two losses in the last 5 years are to PBF and Kostya Tszyu
I consider myself to be a boxing fan (you may disagree) but I would rather see Mitchell than Urkal. I can definately respect the mandatory defense thing though. Just don't slam Mitchell he has had a pretty good career 57-5-0 and never ducked anyone.................
Yeah, no diss to Mitchell, its simply that I think Hatton would rather not fight someone that PBF recently dominated, and he'd take a lot of sh*t from the same type of people that would say that Hatton SHOULD fight Mitchell, I think Mitchell is/(was?) a better fighter than Urkal, but at least Urkal is a bit more intresting as he is something that we haven't seen beaten by the recent 140 movers to 147 elite (He beat Harris first time round and was unlucky 2nd time). The comment about real boxing fans definatly wasn't aimed to you killersheep or anyone else with knowledge and open views, more to the sad click p4p top 10 on this site and the contenders to the crown

Umm.. You do realize that Urkal has spent his whole career at 140 as well, he's not a natural welter and he's no test whatsoever at 147, if that's really where Hatton is going to stay... But you think it would be worse to fight someone that PBF just dominated than someone Vivian Harris pretty much dominated?? I don't think so.