Ricky Hatton to fight Oktay Urkal next.........

[chrisbird13]

Welcome back saddo

Just a thought, there is a lot of shouting over who Ricky should fight, so lets consider the options:

WW:

Mayweather
Margorito
Gatti
Baldomir
Mitchell
Judah
Collazzo

LW:

Cotto
Castillo
Witter
Malignaggi
Corrales

Now lets consider reasons why he wont/can't fight each of these people;

Mayweather; Looks to be linign up with ODLH and Ricky is not ready IMO

Margorito; Defending his WBO title against ? in Las Vegas 08-12-2006, is this too laste in the year, anyone know who he is fighting

Gatti; Fighting Baldomir in Atlantic City 22-07-06

Baldomir; Fighting Gatti in Atlantic City 22-07-06

Mitchell; Seems to be available to fight, but the ultimate goal PBF has already destroyed him as has Tszyu, not the fight it once would have been, Mitchell has no Belts.

Judah; Again PBF, Tszyu and Baldomir have already messed up Judah. And he doesn't have any belts, although a previous undisputed champion.

Collazzo; No belt and he has already done it once. If he wins he has not proved anything except that he has beaten him twice. If he loses his legacy becomes a pipe dream and he loses his big draw the zero after his name. However big pay day and would silence some nay-sayers not all though!

Cotto: Already has two fights lined up Malignaggi at MSG on 06-10-06 and JLC at MSG on 11-11-06

Castillo; Has a fight with Cotto at MSG 11-11-06 and could possibly be facing a ban after the Corrales debacle

Witter; Not yet a big name in America, and so not a big money fight. Also no belts

Malignaggi; Tied up with Cotto at MSG on 06-10-06

Corrales; Does he wasnt to fight at 140, and does RIcky want to go back to 140 when the money fighters are at 147?

As you can see from this list there is nobody who is genuinely a great choice. By fighting Urkal he can keep hold of the belt, which fighting Collazzo would not do, and buy him time so that other fighters can free themselves up. He needs a belt so that fighters will go for it so they have something to gain asides from bragging rights.

If I have got anything wrong or missed anybody out let me know

[LawHoops]

nice to see ricky going back to what he knows best---fighting over the hill bums

[smashup]

Hatton keeps belts and Hatton can draw fighters in


Lawhoops WTF are you chatting about

[LawHoops]

Hatton keeps belts and Hatton can draw fighters in


Lawhoops WTF are you chatting about

im talking about hatton fighting guys more on his level--like ben tackie, now urkal, 56 yr old vince phillips- all this talk about fighting the elite guys like dlh, floyd---i guess collazo brought ricky hatton nation back down to earth........look in 3 yrs ricky will still be fairly young and oscar will be pushing 37 so there is hope for ricky to beat another legend like zoo

[7777]

im talking about hatton fighting guys more on his level--like ben tackie, now urkal, 56 yr old vince phillips- all this talk about fighting the elite guys like dlh, floyd---i guess collazo brought ricky hatton nation back down to earth........look in 3 yrs ricky will still be fairly young and oscar will be pushing 37 so there is hope for ricky to beat another legend like zoo