Hatton Won’t Be Fighting Khan
April 10th, 2009
By Eric Thomas: In news that will surely disappoint boxing fans of Amir Khan (20-1, 15 KOs), the word is that former light welterweight champion Ricky Hatton (45-1, 32 KOs) will never fight Khan, a personal friend of his. The thought of Hatton one day fighting Khan has been kicked around by some ever since Amir won a silver medal in the 2004 Olympics for Britain.
But, then again, it seems rather absurd that an over-the-hill Marco Antonio Barrera was dragged out for a fight against Khan in a move to give Khan some credibility as a fighter. Also odd is Khan’s announcement that he’ll be moving up in weight to fight WBA light welterweight champion Andriy Kotelnik, a fighter that Khan had only recently said was one of the worst of champions.
With Khan’s move up to the light welterweight division with the Kotelnik fight, the speculation begins again whether Hatton might one day choose to fight Khan. No doubt the fight if it came off would be one of the hugest fights in the UK, if not the entire boxing world. Khan with his large following against Hatton with super star appeal worldwide fighting it out in a bout that would almost surely be something along the lines of Pacquiao vs. Hatton.
Sadly, the fight will likely never come off because Hatton has said that he only wants to fight three more times and then retire from boxing. Hatton is looking at fighting Juan Manuel Marquez and Floyd Mayweather Jr., and Khan doesn’t seem to be in the plans for Hatton before he steps away from the sport.
Besides the friendship problem for Hatton-Khan, is that Amir hasn’t yet set the world on fire with his victories in his four year pro career. Besides his first round knockout loss to Prescott last year, Khan has been dropped several times in his career against less than stellar competition.
In Khan’s last fight against Barrera, Khan was stunned by a left hook in the 2nd round of the fight. For Hatton to even consider giving Khan a fight, Amir would have to show immediate improvement with his weak chin, take on much better opposition than Kotelnik, Barrera, and Oisin Fagan – Amir’s last three opponents – and look like a top level fighter. Right now, I find it hard to see Khan’s chin improving or him taking on top flight opponents like Timothy Bradley, Juan Manuel Marquez or Edwin Valero.
It’s scary to think of what Hatton would do to Khan if he got the chance to fight him. If Hatton wasn’t taking it easy on Khan, I suspect that Khan wouldn’t make it beyond the 1st or 2nd round of the fight. Hatton would literally walk right through Khan’s jabs, get inside and rip him apart with hooks and uppercuts to the head and body.
It wouldn’t matter a hill of beans what scheme that Khan’s trainer Freddie Roach puts together or how much time that Khan spars with Pacquiao before the fight, Khan would still very likely be starched in the first two rounds of the fight. But at least the fight would make a ton of money for both fighters and give Khan a career money making fight in losing.
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Hatton would just rip Khan to pieces in the first minuite with his power.
Of course Hatton wont fight Khan, Khan is a nobody. Simple.
That left hook in the Khan v Barrera fight seems to be getting an awful lot of column inches given it resulted in… in, erm, no knockdown. Yes, it was decent enough shot. No, it didn’t have Khan in trouble. Enough said. But, just in case it isn’t enough said… I’ll say that Breidis Prescott’s jabs looked more dangerous to Khan than Barrera’s left hook. Over and out.
So hatton wants Marquez and mayweather Jr as his last 2 fights… Anyone reckon that Mayweather would go for that if Hatton gets beat off marquez (which i think would happen)? If that were the case (hatton getting beat) i think it would be a fitting end to his career to fight Khan in front of a massive british crowd, especially if Khan has a title by then…..
The simple fact is that Hatton is drawing his career to a close. He wants proven massive names for his last 3 fights & there is no way Khan can become that in the amount of time he has. It has no chance of happening.
i agree – khan has not been rounded yet, but quit with all the khan-bashing. someone like calzaghe fought tomoto cans for his first 30 or so fights but i never saw this much bashing of him.
Why do you even right about this rubbish 1 Hatton would obliterate Khan 2 Hatton is after Massive fights not little fights like that !!!
Khan’s eight years too late!
Johno
IM a Khan fan, im aslo a Hatton fan, and i dont wana see this fight anyway.
Khan would have to do alot and get through some big names in the sport before Hatton would be interested, and if Khan did face these big names he wouldnt win anyway.
Eric Thomas what do you suggest Khan does about his chin? Dumb comment really.
And what was the comment about Khan being stunned by Barrera in the 2nd for? I dont quite get the point of you makin it. Khan was in no trouble against Barrera. And even if he was stunned so what? its boxing people get stunned and Barrera has no doubt stunned his opponant at some point in every single fight hes ever had.
Wait, wait, wait… did you just put a Hatton-Kahn fight in the same stratosphere as a Hatton-Pacquio fight? LMFAO!!! Where does this site get these writers?!?! HAHAHAHA thanks for the laugh =)