Hatton says “I am not retired”
September 8th, 2010
By William Mackay: In his boxing news column at the Manchestereveningnews, former IBF light welterweight champion Ricky Hatton (45-2, 32 KO’s) made it a point to says he’s not retired from the sport, and made the usual comment about possibly one day having the urge to fight. This is what Hatton said: “I’d like to clarify the position regards to my boxing career once again. As usual, one sentence out of many can take a conversation out of context, and until you hear it officially from the horse’s mouth, I am not retired. I have renewed my license and if I wake up one day and the urge is there, you’ll be the first to know.”
It’s one thing have to trim off 60 pounds but quite another trying to pare off 100 pounds of flab. That’s just not feasible for a fighter that fought at light welterweight. At this point if Hatton were to come back, I see him having only limited success. He might be able to beat some fringe contenders but I think Hatton would be destroyed by the 1st tier stars like Marcos Maidana, Devon Alexander, Timothy Bradley and Victor Ortiz.
If Hatton does decide to come back, he needs to do turn off the television, get off the couch, lock himself away in some medieval training camp miles away from human civilization and then come back and take on someone like Amir Khan. That’s the only fight for Hatton at this point as far as I’m concerned. I don’t the boxing public would buy into a rematch between Hatton and Floyd Mayweather Jr. or Manny Pacquiao without Hatton taking on two or three tough fighters and beating them to prove that he’s back. I can’t see Hatton doing that, so he might as well fight Khan. I’m not holding my breath on that happening. Hatton needs to retire.
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Ricky you walking fat shi( bag stop eating all the pies
You fox fat man coked up like I said all along give me some and u can have some pudin u bum..
Obviously he’ll come back as a heavyweight as long as he avoids drug testing. Like to see him against Audrey Harrison.
Wat about some lemon and lime roll with jam on top fattey
45 fights 2 knocked out cold to much cream pie to much beer and pork 4o of the fights was against pudin drinking when he was training give up you bum.
Fatton u want some cream pie
Come on old gun o you drunken clown
Come on fat man hang it up before someone hangs your big fat guts up for your…
Wat did mayweather say I will use him like a punch bag hatton said he was a country mile ahead in the pac fight he hit pac once give up u mupet…
no one cares anymore
Ricky are you punch drunk
Look at yourself in the mirror fatton your are a drunken bum..
Mackey you mention khan being the guy he should fight if he comes back! Khan is the guy he shouldn’t fight any one else at 140 I give him a good chance if he can get back into decent shape. Do you have something against khan? I ain’t his biggest fan but as a boxer surely got the best skills at 140. I don’t think hatton really has his heart in fighting any more and will probably stay retired but hatton was a good honest fighter who saught out the best he could get his hands on taking 10,000 Brits over to Vegas with him for some of his fights how many other fighters in the world pull that sought of a home following abroad?
He fought tin cans when he went in with to good fighters knocked clean out if he fights again he will get carried out give up you bum…
ricky hatton was horrible to watch on anygiven day. i always said, if a ref would stop him from holding so much, that he would get waxed, that day came and ricky got waxed not once but twice. ricky do boxing a favor and stay gone
Watch out ricky you might blow up, u do look like a pudin
Just shut up Ricky, we got sick of u. u were othing and still nothing, u fought low level fighters, we u went to play with the big boys u got knocked out
Hatton still has a HUGE fan base in the UK , , any time he returns he will sell out his MEN arena, no probs .
Thats more than drink hes coked up
Who eat all the pies ricky
ricky is a fat bum id probably beat him myself in his prime
@ jasz .. lmao!
Ricky deserves to do what he wants. He has done wonders for boxing and even more for merry old. Nobody has the right to critisize him. He was great at his peak and only lost to the best fighters of the last ten years. Nothing to be ashamed of.
I think it’s up to him. He knows the risks and he knows the rewards but personally, I don’t think that he has the look of a man who plans on going anywhere near a boxing ring every again (as a competetor).
looks like his double chin’s a having a baby
He if was gonna get the urge to come back and redeem himself ,youd think it would have hit him by now,the longer he leaves it the likely he has of mounting a comeback and the more damaging its gonna be to his health.i would hate to watch khan give ricky a beating or some b rate boxer ko him,because in his prime he was awsome.
a prime ricky would hammer khan i dont care what anybody says.there only so much ring and once ricky caught up with him hed be far too strong fast and persistent khan would be in a very bad place.not forgotting rickys granite chin,(which seems to have faded)khans ribs would be like niknaks,snapped all over the ring.people forget how effiecient the hitman was at what he did.may not have been the best fluent boxer ,but what he lacked in boxing skills he certainly made up for in strength speed stamina and determination.
state of that double chin
Fatton needs to make his mind up… he’s embarrasing himself now.
Whatever you say Fatton
Hatton could fight Postman Pat and the place would be filled to the rafters. It shows that you have no idea how popular Ricky Hatton is here in the UK.
If he wants to come back let him come back, who are you to tell someone else how to live his life. Particularly when the man you are talking about has achieved more than most people could ever dream of achieving.
Only lost two fights in his career and they were both against the P4P 1 and 2. Not a bad record im sure you’ll agree.
Take your time Ricky and make whatever decision suits you, not everyone else.
crazy pic of the hitman… dude looks buzzed out on a night of binging or sumthin..