Will Hatton Retire If He loses To Pacquiao?
December 20th, 2008
By Michael Lieberman: Now that Ricky Hatton in on the verge of signing for a fight with Manny Pacquiao, I’m wondering whether Hatton will threaten to retire if he loses to him like he did in his fight with Paulie Malignaggi. I’m really waiting to hear what he’ll say on this. Whether he does or not, a loss to Pacquiao will be a huge setback for Hatton and maybe put him in the same class as Oscar De La Hoya. Being made to look as awful is De La Hoya is a bad thing. Hatton has a lot to lose in this fight, and if he ends up looking like idiot, kissing the canvas, then a lot of his fans are going to bye-bye on that night.
It isn’t like Hatton has helped himself any, though. Since getting his backside handed to him in a 10th round stoppage to Mayweather in 2007, Hatton has sidestepped the best fighters in the light welterweight division.
It isn’t like he can avoid fighting those guys, because all of the champions are now solid ones in the light welterweight division and there’s no more easy pickings for Hatton to beat. He might as well retire, I guess. Because his brawling style will be easily picked apart by the above mentioned fighters and he will probably be made to look really bad. He does have other options, I suppose. He probably could go after De La Hoya, and have a mega fight for recent losers to Pacquiao.
That would be great. Like a consolation bracket for fighters that have been knocked out by Pacquiao. I’m not sure how many tickets it would sell, but I’m sure Hatton and De La Hoya’s diehard fans would faithfully scoop up the tickets to watch the thing. Two losses isn’t all that bad, just look at De La Hoya. He’s lost four out of his last seven fights, and yet the fans keep buying tickets and purchasing his PPV bouts. I guess the same would hold true for Hatton. He still has a ways to go before he gets to six losses like De La Hoya, so it may not matter how badly he gets destroyed by Pacquiao.
He did, however, take his loss kind of hard to Mayweather. It’ll probably get easier to take over time, the losing. But maybe he should retire. I mean, if he’s not going to face the best fighters in the light welterweight division, then what’s the use of Hatton still fighting? He might as well retire if he’s just going to be skipping up and down in weight, taking on fighters from different weight classes without fighting the best in his own weight class.
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Hatton vs pac will be a great fight. Takeing nothing from manny, oscar was a complete shell and I feel Hatton would of ripped de la hoya apart on that performance. So Manny and Hatton will be top of the the shop if it happens?. I can see it being a real close fight whoever wins. It would be nice to see Hatton aload to fight his fight as was not the case in the Mayweather fight. Cortez played a big part in allowing Mayweather to catch Hatton on the way in then not allowing Hatton to fight on the inside (one of his finest assets). That said Mayweather is a great fighter just a shame the ref chose to give him a helping hand in that one and also not to say the result would of been any different just a little more intreasting.
pac man is a great fighter but in my opinion he lost against marquez,and will lose to hatton who at light welter is a wreckin machine.pacman will be bullied and won’t be able too keep up with the hitmans pace,power,i really believe it will be a classic while it lasts.hatton’s only defeat was against the great fmj,pacman will fall late on 9th or 10th.and that will set up a rematch with fmj[redemption].
I have to agree with the above comments that has to be the worst artical I have read for some time, the fight with Malignaggi was in most genuine fans minds the meeting of the no1 and no2 in the division and as for Lazcano this was a come back fight after a defeat to one of the best fighers in the world (no sham in losing) and a tribute to his loyal fans who travel to the USA to watch him, cut price tickets, a full house and another victory to restore his confidence before setting up another high class fight (when was the last fight you saw with 50,000 in attendance?????
Not having to stay up till 5am to watch the fight, how many US fans can say they stay up till that time to watch a boxing match (like we do every other fight) i think not
As far as Witter he lost his title so why fight an x champion when he had the pick of oppostion and went for the no2.
Again a garbage piece of writting and if this is the kind of crap you are going to post on this site I dont think i will be using this anymore, he should be removed and replaced with someone who has a grasp on reality rather than a blatent and biased opinion of anyone fighting outside of the US
I really hope Hatton pulls of the win to make you look like the complete ass you are (if that is even possible)
This is quite possibly the most untrue statment ive ever seen hahaha. This is comical. I worry about you, do you really know wat uve just said. Hatton dodges the best? Ya fool he fought a prime mayweather – p4p best, now he wants to fight the newp4p best – pacquaio, he fought castillo whos class, kostya.also everyone was sayin malignaggi is the 2nd best light-welter after hatton. Sort it kid lmao. To say this artical is comical would be a large understatement.
lieberman is a total gimp, his knowledge of boxing is so badly limited its a joke….. he makes me pull my hair out id love to have a sit down with him…………
Listen, you all know hey they use this pri.ck to write, because he is provocative. However, I think the website needs to look at the fact that his observations show very,very little understanding of real boxing at all – and that SHOULD be of a concern to the site ?!!
However, back to Hatton v Pac …. well, what a fantastic fight you will see, I guarantee ! Firstly, you will have two fighters that won’t be suffering any kind of effect of weight-drain ( a huge factor in the De La Hoya fight, as well as Manny moving up into the weight more healthily ).
This fight will not go to Manny …. I see Hatton either hurting Pac relentlessly throughout a very high-tempo fight. Yes, Pac will get off with some shots, no doubt, but Ricky’s natural power and underestimated speed at the weight will get to Pac ( think about Pac’s first fight with that other Mexican chap that he put down 3 times in the first 2 rds ( sorry, I forgot his name { not Barrera or Morales } – after that the guy came back strong and Pac was near running for the last three rounds and didn’t have much left in the tank … ).
Hatton, despite his out of the ring reputation, has shown a good ability to maintain a good working level throughout 12 rounds – and I think this will be a real factor. This plus the fact that, rumour has it, Ricky, has taken Mayweather Snr’s advice to heart and is living far more cleanly than he has in the past in between fights. I feel that Mayweather will continue to make a big difference with Hatton if he remains as the coach/trainer for this big scrap.
Look, we all knew that Mallinaggi was a powder-puff puncher, but his speed, movement and general boxing craft was supossed to have been way too much for Ricky to contend with … infact, the opposite was true. Ricky, can box and box very well when he has to and this, along with his very deceptively fast hands, have been surprsingly underestimated in the past …
However, all these things will give him a real head-start against Pac, in my opinion. Once Pac gets hurt and hurt properly, his fight game will change somewhat … I think Pac has plenty of heart and balls for a fight regardless … it’s just that coming up against a more powerful and a deceptively fast Hatton will get to him quite a lot in their fight and in a way he has never had to experience in his professional career to date. I would be surprised if Hatton pulled off the first stoppage of Pacman.
Roll on the fight ….
You guys do know liberman is 15 it’s on his profile on the site. do really want to waste your time arguing with a little kid??
IT AINT GONNA HAPPEN HATTON WILL WIN IN A TRIFFIC FIGHT IT WILL BE THAT GOOD THERE WILL A REMATCH!!