I Think Khan would Beat Hatton
September 15th, 2009
By Scott Gilfoid: I personally can’t stand Amir Khan and Ricky Hatton, but I got to say that if they ever fight, Khan will win with ease. Hatton is sitting back right now still resting and looking for motivation to restart his boxing career.
That’s where Khan comes in. Hatton will look at Khan and see what I see in him. A fighter with fast hands, good movement but a chin made of glass. Hatton will no doubt want to get a big payday without the worry of being knocked out once again. Hatton has suffered two bad knockouts in the past two years against Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao, so he won’t want to take on anyone dangerous like Marcos Maidana and risk getting stretched for a third time.
There’s a ton of other fighters out there for Hatton to fight besides Khan, but most of them are far too dangerous for Hatton due to their power, hand speed and boxing ability. Besides all that, few of them have a big enough name for Hatton to want to risk fighting them. And unlike Khan, these fighters don’t have a glass chin like Khan does.
This is why I think Hatton will opt to take on Khan first in 2010, so that Ricky can take the easy money fight while Khan is still relevant in the boxing world. It works out well for Hatton if he moves quickly to retain a fight with Khan after Amir destroys Dmitry Salita in December.
If Hatton waits too long, there’s a danger that Khan will fight the interim World Boxing Association light welterweight champion Marcos Maidana and get knocked out. In that case, there would be little point in Hatton fighting Khan because he would have already been exposed for the second time in his career and it would ruin the public interest in a Hatton-Khan fight.
If Khan and Hatton fight in 2010, I think Khan will destroy Hatton without any problems. Khan’s chin may be like glass, but his trainer Freddie Roach has already done a commendable job of teaching Khan to avoid getting hit as much. It’s made Khan a much more boring fighter than he was before, to be sure. However, at least Khan isn’t getting knocked out like he was against Breidis Prescott.
Khan looked like a fish out of water in that fight, flopping around on the canvas like he belonged there. Pacquiao has already set the blueprint on how to beat Hatton. You just wait around for Hatton to try and throw one of his wild left hooks and then tag him with either a left hook or a straight right hand while Hatton is in mid leap.
Hatton is pretty predictable when he throws his hooks and badly telegraphs them. Before their training camp is over, Roach will have Khan ready and dialed in to take advantage of Hatton every time he attempts to throw a hook. The end result will be Hatton being knocked cold and finished as a fighter.
Hatton would obviously retire after being knocked out by Khan. But at least Hatton would get a good payday for his final fight of his career.
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JONK (Post 22) You’re such a lady place
Hatton is great
you lot talk so much rubish it makes me mad how can you puy khan in the same leage as ricky hatton come on hatton is a tow waight champ he onley lost to the very best thats it at least he never ducked the fights but cuz he lost you say he bum you talk so much rubbish and get a life and talk sence
hatton would KO khan.. just be cause he lost to the 2 best p4p fighters out there dont mean he cant fight no more! and scott g is a c**t
Who give this man a job writing on here?He must be doing all sorts of favours for someone.
Khan can`t take a punch, neither can Hatton.It would come down to who connects first,and khan would beat hatton to the punch.He would have to watchout for the ref.though,he might give hatton time-out when he is hurt to comfort his crying girlfriend
khan couldnt knock out a paper bag, he has no power, guts or heart. his new style has reverted back to his amiteur days when he jumps in and out scoring points. he relies on being a better athlete and faster than his opponenets to jump around and run away. watch him vacate his title when he is faced with maidana, a real fighter with power.
khan will destroy ricky hatton. within 6 rounds khan will knock him out. what mr mathews has said in his comments dont really make sense to me. hatton will kill khan. ur makin me laugh man nd makin a fool of urself.
i think the ref saved hatton from getting knocked out by juan lazcano
Hatton needs a long talke with Roberto Duran, who suffered some major knockouts and then came back to become a middle weight world champion at age 45 with his victory over Iran Barkley.
Boxing is a great sport because it is all abount men like Duran who come back to overcome defeat. That is why we watch this sport so much. Guys like Duran show us how to get back up and be men again.
Hatton would stretch Khan and likely all the other top LWW. Would like to see him fight Mayweather again. What about the Prince Naseem comming out of retirement to fight Hatton.
Why would you say that you cant stand Khan or Hatton? As a “journalist” shouldnt you be proffessional and not let your bias pour into your articles? How can anyone take you seriously any other way? You obviously have a dislike of british fighters but hardly ever write articles about american fighters in comparison. As nick has explained this site probably only lets you write your crap so you can pull up their poor traffic ratings by cuasing arguements with your poorly written , uneducated articles.
khan is a bum aswell. who wants to see them fight, hatton is past his best and khan is boring now he’s with roach. i hope the ref wins
you love british fighters and liam loves ricky hatton.
THE FIGHT WONT HAPPEN,GILFOID WINDING U UP
Hatton is a bum
scott gilfoid loves winding up us British fight fans. notice he rarely writes about American fighters !! thats because he doesn’t get many comments, but loads of comments from outraged British fans when he slags off our fighters. scott gilfoid is a clever man i’m starting to like him ha ha
Who actually gets to write these head lines, Hatton is still a great fighter and would destory Khan, Khan would prob not even take the fight
Zab vs. Ricky Winner fights Khan or Maiden for the title Belt
way off the mark
Khan dodged all the top lightweights… Rickyt could tune up and Khan wouldn’t be able to stand a shot on the chin from Ricky…
Khan is overblown and overrated…we don’t like fakes in Britain… and he is one of them
Hatton is under rated since he lost to 2 of the best fighters of our generation.
If he still has the mind set to fight, then i will keep backing hatton to beat even the top names.
I think hatton still would love to fight flloyd again, if marquez loses to mayweather, hatton will go after him.
Hatton would have too much for khan to deal with.
I actually agree with you on this one.
Khan will be too fast for Hatton and will outbox and outwork him for a win on points.
Hatton is a shot fighter khan could seriously damage him. Sometimes you have to put a fighters health before the payday. Ricky dont do it.
Liam will Pacman & Floyd fight in 2010???
Khan is badly overrated. . .so was Hatton.
Name me a bigger punching LWW other than Hatton. Name me a more over rated, weak chinned LWW than Khan. There no match lol.
Why bother with Hatton, Arturo Gatti is a lot fresher for Khan.
keep taking the tablets scott and the voices will go away
why would khan wont to fight ricky for?..hatton is not a super featherweight and can punch.perhaps they can dig barrera up again?
there you go again you idiot it would be a huge mismatch it one thing losing 2 pacquio and maywether they are great fighters khan is not!!!!
You hate fighters who are not American, yes we get it
Particually British as it happens.
I’d give Khan a better chance at this stage due to Hatton not being able to take a punch quite like he used to. You’re right, if Hatton tagged him at any stage though, Khan gets KO’d…
Disliking people because of ethnicity, race, colour etc…Is just not cool and there is a word for it…At least try to write a balanced article to disguise the hate.
I agree with what you say about Kahn, he’s blessed with everything but a chin, and unfortunately one day it will be exposed again and this day will come if he fights Hatton. As for Maidana again I agree he’s got some power and is too dangerous for Kahn to fight, but I cannot see the likes of Maidana beating Hatton. Ricky has only ever lost to the best P4P fighters on the planet and thats nothing to be ashamed of, you talk about it like it’s a huge let down? His loss to Pacman was dissapointing but not the end of the world.
i dont think khan has the fire power to worry hatton.
please stop writing articles like this. you re completely off the mark with this. Khan would be killed by hatton and the sooner this happens the better.