Hatton vs. Malignaggi

By Shaun Campbell: European welterweight champion Matthew Hatton is set to take on former WBA world title challenger Yuri Nuzhnenko on July 16th in Hatton’s first defence of his European crown. Hatton (39-4-2 15 KOs) who won the belt with a convincing win over Gianluca Branco, is looking at a possible rematch with Lovemore N’Dou [...]

Ricky Hatton: “I enjoyed it this time much more than last time. I just came to a new camp. I’m working on some new things, me and Floyd [Mayweather Sr.] have been together probably seven or eight weeks, so it doesn’t happen overnight. I think I’ve showed glimpses of the what I can do. I [...]

By Alan Thomson: It wasn’t an off night for Paulie Malignaggi. He got dominated by a better fighter. A much better fighter. Ricky Hatton erased any doubts that had been based on his recent performances by thoroughly thrashing Malignaggi, winning nine of the first ten rounds before Malignaggi’s corner had seen enough and threw in [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: First off, I don’t consider either of these guys as best in the light welterweight division, so effectively what we’re seeing is a glorified popularity contest between former champions. Ricky Hatton (44-1, 31 KOs) has looked faded and over the hill for the past three years and hasn’t looked good since beating [...]

By Eric Thomas: Having had back to back poor performances, it’s hard to tell what version of Ricky Hatton (44-1, 31 KOs) will enter the ring on Saturday night against Paulie Malignaggi (25-1, 5 KOs) at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada. If this fight were to have occurred several years ago when Hatton [...]

By Iwan Evans: York Hall in Bethnal Green is having a busy period in November and that busy period continues on Saturday night as Prizefigher rolls in to town. This time it’s the middleweights in action and here I am going to preview all eight fighters who start the night in the competition.

By Alan Thomson: Who’s the man? The Magic Man or the Hit Man? The slickster from Brooklyn or the brawler from Manchester? Although from what we’re hearing from the Hatton camp, it may be the slickster vs. the new and improved boxer. Hatton maintains that we’ll see a new Ricky in the ring on Saturday, [...]

By Simon Hirst: Last weekend, David Haye defeated Monte Barrett after knocking him down five times before the referee stopped it. Haye came in the ring looking calm and confident and throughout the fight, never looked in huge trouble. Barrett was largely ineffective with his wild throws and Haye used his speed to avoid the [...]

By Daniel Askew: Firstly lets start by looking at next week fight between Hatton and Malignaggi. Malignaggi is a more than competent fighter and given his record of 25 (5) – 1 (0) he should prove to be a difficult fighter for Hatton to beat. Malignaggi has only ever been beaten by Cotto who I [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: After a fine early career with wins over a faded Vince Phillips and Kostya Tszyu, as well as many other moderately good fighters, maybe Ricky Hatton (44-1, 31 KOs) has proven all that he needs to prove and should consider retiring from boxing. Like Joe Calzaghe, he can rightly claim that he [...]

By Jim Dower: Former International Boxing Federation light welterweight champion Ricky Hatton (44-1, 31 KO’s) will be stepping foot in the ring with his lightest puncher in ages when he takes on former IBF light welterweight champion Paulie Malignaggi (25-1, 5 KOs) on November 22nd at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. Hatton, [...]

By Daniel “stick” Ciminera: With just under two weeks to go until the 140lbs fight between two men at completely opposite ends of the boxing spectrum, the old slugger v the young technician. Yet, it would seem that nobody cares that this fight is taking place. I believe this is simply due to the fact [...]