Khan-Hatton: Aside from Money, Is There Any Reason Why This Fight Should Happen?
July 20th, 2009
By Michael Williams: Amir Khan’s victory over Andreas Kotelnik at the MEN Arena in Manchester on Saturday night brought a dream to reality for the Bolton born boxer. Khan’s classy points victory over the Ukrainian earned him the WBA light welterweight crown at the tender age of just 22 and showcased how far his game has come since his Breidis Prescott defeat.
A reported clash between Hatton and Khan would do nothing to enhance either fighters career and would solely be a fight for the British public to wet their boxing appetite. It would not be a bout similar to the epic Benn v Eubank encounters as in this case both fighters are heading in different directions in their careers.
For Khan there should be no incentive to fight a man who is still considering retirement from a sport that he has given his all to. The former Olympic silver medallist is on his way up and should be setting his sights on more world title belts and focusing on making a name for himself on the other side of the Atlantic. Should this fight happen and Khan be victorious it would not add to his reputation and fear factor that the Americans are looking for in the young champion.
A win over Hatton would not be as much of an achievement as it would have been a few years back when the Hitman was beating all before him on his way to the top. Ricky Hatton has done too much in his career to be remembered as another boxer who went on too long and suffered an embarrassing defeat, the threat of this should lean Hatton towards retirement.
With the defeat to Pacquiao still hurting the thought of facing another opponent with lightening quick hands and a trainer who sussed his game out are other reasons for Hatton to hang his gloves up.
Should it go ahead it would be an intriguing contest but with no reason for the fight to be arranged Hatton should pass on the gauntlet to a new exciting generation for British boxing.
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Amir Khan vs. Marcos Rene Maidana is what needs to happen next.
ok khan did well in his last fight but lets not get ahead of ourselves, hatton is still a world class fighter, probably still in p4p top 15, ppl are overreactin because he got knocked out, did ppl say hearns should retire after he got ko’d by hagler, no. he didnt get knocked out cos hes gettin on, he got knocked out because he took a big punch without havin his guard up. end of the day, hed ko khan within 5 rounds and still ko the big names in the welter division, hes only been beaten by the very best, lets no forget hes beat tszyu and castillo and many others. who agrees or disagrees
Hatton – Khan makes sense for both fighters iff Hatton is still interested in fighting. Khan could use Hatton as a stepping stone in the division while for Hatton it would be an opportunity to get back in the mix.
hatton at half his way before would walk thru khan the hatton that beat malanagi would of destroed khan.
He should fight Marcos Maidana next.
Amir Khan should be fighting Marcos Rene Maidana next.
Hatton lost in bad fashion last time but I still think that he would win due the way khan fought againt Kotelnik, Kotelnik is a slow punching, light punching, defensive fighter but Khan fought on the back foot, though I am not taking anything away from his boxing ability, he fought like he was against Mike Tyson if he had Hatton chasing him he would be in trouble
If Hatton is looking to totally resurect his career and look to win belts i suppose Amir has got one to fight for.
But i dont think Hatton is looking to do that, maybe 1 more fight, maybe retire right away.
If Khan was strugglin to make a name for himself then maybe tarteting a possible weakened Hatton would could help but hes not in that position, for many reasons hes a big big name and does not need to be looking to fight a friend and fellow country man.
Ricky should fight more…
I dont care what anyone says about boxers staying in the sport too long.
If i was him and people were willing to pay to see me fight id take what ever fights i could get.
No matter who hatton fights he will make at least 500,000 pound, maybe millions of pounds. I would not stop fighting til the doctors told me not to, or til the fans just didnt want to see me anymore.
Or hatton could end up been the countrys best promoter. He has the fame, he has the fan base, he has the money… he loves the sport. He could dominate!
I can’t see the point of Khan vs Hatton for either guy.
Khan needs to start beating Yanks if he wants to make money in the States and frankly Hatton didn’t really cover himself in glory in the U.S.
even before being made to look like a pub fighter by Floyd and then getting bashed up by the Pacman, so his name won’t mean any extra lights going up in Vegas.
As for Ricky Hatton, come on mate, count your money then work out how many full English breakfasts you can buy before you have to go back to work or even better move to the States, a country where they understand even better than us how substantial a breakfast should be.