By Chris Williams: Though many boxing scribes still feel that former IBF light welterweight champion Ricky Hatton (43-1, 31 KOs) is the best fighter in the light welterweight division, he’s beginning to get diminishing support among many fans for his steadfast refusal to fight WBC light welterweight champion Junior Witter (36-1, 21 KOs), who has been calling him out for the past two years without luck. Hatton has said that he doesn’t want to fight Witter because of the way that Witter is constantly calling him out in the press.
However, if Hatton has kept his eyes open in the sport during his career, he’d have seen that this is how it’s always done. That is, when one fighter wants to fight another fighter, particularly one that is more popular than them, they talk to the press and call out the fighter by saying something negative about them in one way or another. Hatton, for all his excuses about not like having Witter calling him out, did just that when he made negative comments in the media about Floyd Mayweather Jr. before they decided to fight one another. Mayweather, in turn, responded to Hatton with his own war of words. Shortly after that, the two agreed to fight. So, Hatton’s feelings of not liking what Witter is doing by calling him out seem to equate to something else, more likening to him just not wanting to fight him period regardless of what Witter is saying or not saying about him personally.
By Michael Lieberman: As light welterweight Ricky Hatton’s (43-1, 31 KOs) prepares for his bout against Juan Lazcano (37-4-1, 27 KOs) on May 24th in Manchester, the question remains whether Hatton is still the same fighter he once was after suffering a devastating 10th round stoppage to Floyd Mayweather Jr. in December 2007. Many fighters, especially ones that were previously unbeaten, are often never the same after experiencing particularly bad losses. In Hatton’s case, his loss was made even worse in that the entire world was watching and it was so badly one-sided. 
By Chris Stein: I’m in agreement with writer Dan Ambrose about his opinion of former WBA super lightweight champion Gavin Rees (27-1, 13 KOs), who he sees as an incredibly talented fighter whose fight with Andrea Kotelnik (29-2-1, 13 KOs) shouldn’t have been stopped by the referee prematurely. Rees was only briefly stunned and was still fighting back at the time that the referee halted his bout with Kotelnik on Saturday night. Rees looked perfectly alright and was merely trying to get his bearing after having had his equilibrium messed up from a punch that landed behind his ear in the 3rd round. Other than that, he was fine and was fighting back without any signs of being in the verge of a knockout. Rees, however, took the stoppage like a true warrior, never complaining for an instant. 
By Erik Thomas: The first fight was an ugly one-sided affair, with the undersized Ricky Hatton being foiled at his attempted wrestling & fighting on the inside, eventually leading up to a 10th round stoppage by Floyd Mayweather Jr. (39-0, 25 KOs). The only reason I ask is because Mayweather, 30, recently said to Sky Sports News in regards to a rematch with Hatton, “We don’t know what the future holds, anything is possible. Is it possible? Absolutely.” This would seem to suggest that Mayweather is kicking around the idea of fighting Hatton sometime in the future, perhaps not long after Floyd faces Oscar De La Hoya in their September 20th rematch in Las Vegas. 
By Manuel Perez: Ever since previously unbeaten junior welterweight Ricky Hatton (43-1, 31 KOs) was embarrassed in a 10th round TKO loss to pound-for-pound boxing king Floyd Mayweather (39-0, 25 KOs), last December 8th at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada, the 29 year-old Hatton has shown little indication that he’s getting over the humiliation of his one-sided beating from Mayweather. In a recent interview, Hatton had this to say about the Mayweather bout: