Junior Witter bumps into Ricky Hatton and Hatton Avoids Witter

[TheDemolitionDan]

Witter has a loud mouth who hasn't done shit. Even a shot Hatton is much much better than annoying ass Witter at his peak.

[Fenster]

Its simple

Hatton doesnt wanna give someone he hates so much the payday of his life.

Junior would earn 5times in one night what he would earn in his entire career if ricky gave him a shot and it would also draw absoloutely no attention stateside and automatically demote hatton to the 2nd tier of world boxing which he clearly isnt.

This fight makes as much sense as calzaghe fighting froch before carl went over to the states. How many times do you british fight fans need to be told. The money men in this sport work for HBO/Showtime not sky sports and setanta

The same money men - HBO/Showtime - that REFUSED to buy Hatton-Lazcano? Did it stop the fight happening? That's just ANOTHER Hatton excuse his apologists bought.

Witter is not worthy

Hatton spent nearly 10 years shamelessly ducking him. At Brit level, through his never-ending WBU run, and then into genuine world level. Only Tszyu, Castillo (although ancient, because it was stateside) and Floyd were justifiable better opponents than Witter in all that time.

Hatton "cleverly" bottled the fight. Simple as. There would have been no multi-million pound Las Vegas jamborees had Hatton proved to be only the 2nd best 140 fighter in Britain.

[Gandalf]

Fenster is right. The whole "I don't want to give him the pay day" is a weak excuse not to fight Witter when some would argue Witter has a legit shot at beating him. Hatton has fought other opponents who were not big draws since Tsyzu. So the ducking argument has some credence. Personally, I think Hatton would have beaten Witter, but it's now a case of we will never really know. Shame really because it could have been a very decent domestic fight.