posted May 14, 2008

Too true, what a shocker - Urango was booed mightily... by his own fans! Every boxer has a stinker at some point though. He IS a bit limited but one of those fighters that will always have a decent chance of sparking an opponent out. I can see him grabbing another LWW belt though.
If he fights Bradley (who looks small for a LWW) it`ll look like an David`n`Goliath optical illusion!

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posted May 14, 2008

What Witter fans have to realise is that, when you are fighting simeone that can punch, you can't just stand upright & lean back, as he did when Bradley put him down...Hatton would have took his head clean off. Bradley studied Witter, saw his weakness & kept throwing the same shot. This does not make Bradley better than Hatton either, it makes him smart though.

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posted May 14, 2008

Onifsky

You keep making the point fighters would beat Hatton in their PRIME. I think the point the other guy was making was on current form Mayweather, Cotto and Hatton are better than Witter and Castillo

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posted May 14, 2008

oh Hatton must be so scared of losing to witter thats why he's avoided him all this time and opted for fighters like p4p best FLOYD MAYWEATHER...or castillo!!!

Reading some of these comments from people who knock hatton's achievements and his pedigree because he has no desire to fight witter i can only assume they have little knowledge of the fight game
Why would he want to? what would he prove?...best domestic fighter??..why oh why?
for one there is no financial insentive!
Recognition...only in uk!
entertainment value?....not likely with Witter's negative style
I think there is one thing we can all agree upon is that it will never happen now...and who cares? Witter probably.
I do think Bradley v Hatton would be an entertaining prospect.

With Hatton's links stateside in Golden boys promotions he has MUCH bigger fish to fry.

As for the debate who would win between Hatton v Witter. Judging from saturdays perfomance i'd be inclined to think Hatton but it wouldn't be a pretty fight and stood the prospect of being a bit of a anti climax. But its very subjective and opinions will always be divided and we could argue until the cows come home.
I for one am glad of witters saturday emphatic defeat and hope it puts an end to all these ridiculous claims that Hatton is avoiding witter for anything other than incentive (that would be lack of).

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posted May 15, 2008

My tuppence...

Whilst I think Ricky's a better fighter and that he certainly doesn't NEED Witter, I still think there's some mileage to be made between the two of them, IF Ricky wants to come home and do it.

Just look at the Gatti-Ward trilogy and Morales-Barrera.

In both examples, the fighters involved were not considered the best in the world, but the rivalry that built up between them and the clash of styles made for an absolute tear-up every time.

Both trilogies featured a boxer (Gatti and Barrera) versus a brawler (Ward and Morales) and they've gone down as some of the best fights in history.

Other examples are Ali v Fraser, Ray Robinson v LaMotta and Castillo v Corrales (RIP).

Each time one (or both) of the fighters appeared beatable, and not necessarily a big-sell in their own right, but thanks to marketing, styles and rivalry, they went down in history.

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posted May 15, 2008

Different people see the fight in different ways, but I was surprised Witter thought he'd done enough to win in his post-fight interview.

I saw Bradley winning with some ease, being the aggressor all the way through, bullying Witter and bowling him over. Even in the rounds you might give to Witter there was nothing decisive about his fight, and the best you could say is that Bradley shipped some punches just to get in range and keep bullying Junior.

Someone ought to tell Junior, if he plans on fighting, that switching stance is no substitute for punching. I just think he gets a bit carried away with the endless shuffling to Southpaw and back. It might feel to him like he's playing some seriously sharp mind games and being a bit of a genius.... but to my eye he took a hiding while trying to dance.

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posted May 16, 2008

Even pre the Bradley fight I've got 2 words for Witter if he ever got in the ring with Hatton: No Chance!
Don't get me wrong, Witter's a good boxer and big hitter with quikc hands but he's not World Class like Hatton (still) is.
He forgets to box while he's switching and what should be a natural ability to go from Orthodox to South Paw starts to look like showmanship and Bradley could see this, used it to his advantage and out-boxed him nearly every round. Witter can be he own worse enemy in the ring by keeping his switches up and he's foot movement down. If you fail to move and rely on the lean back against someone like Hatton you'd get destroyed.
There is no reason I can why Hatton would want or need to fight Witter other than to fuel Witters ego. The only time the public would get to see this fight is when both of them are about to take a final bow and thank their fans.
But if this fight was to happen tomorrow, Hatton would spend most of the opening rounds giving Witter a knowing smile.
Witter - good, arguably very good. Hatton - World Class and in Boxing that gap is do big a void to fill.

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posted May 19, 2008

Hatton and Witter should have happened time ago..

now that Witter is 34, i dont see him coming back.

Problem for me with Hatton is that he has always Ducked his mandatories.

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posted May 20, 2008

Witter has never been his mandatory.

And since Hatton beat Tsyzu, he has done nothing other than unify and beat other world champions, surely this is better than fighting some mandatory fighter who is probably onlt there because of his promoter.

I know this is not ideal, but boxing is corrupt.

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