Demons Be Gone

Loss to Mayweather Jr. by TKO in the 10th round

Loss to Pacquiao by KO in the 2nd round

Ricky Hatton “has demons” and needs a scheduled fight to regain his discipline, Gareth Williams, CEO of Hatton Promotions, has told Telegraph Sport.

If Ricky Hatton has demons, it is over his inability to best the number 1 & 2 boxers in the world Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. Both prize fighters hammered Hatton in spectacular fashion.

For the sake of argument, let’s say Hatton goes back into serious training and makes some progressive changes to his fight game. He would probably make a better showing against either Pacquaio or Mayweather Jr. in a re-match, but not enough to win. It would be just a matter of not losing as badly the second time around.

Until those two losses, Hatton was undefeated. Fighting anyone other than the opponents he lost against isn’t worth his time, unless it’s a tune-up match. But Hatton's style of fighting 'come forward, swing hard, and then hope for the best' is his un-doing. However to Hatton’s credit it earned him 45 wins in a row without a loss. But that isn’t enough to beat the top 2 fighters in the world. It will take skills that Hatton doesn’t possess, and he never will. I base this on the fact that Hatton claimed to have reinvented himself before facing Mayweather Jr. When the first bell rang, it was the same Ricky Hatton of 45 fights ago. The exact effort was then repeated against Pacquiao, and netted him similar results.

Hatton needs to stay retired. He has nothing to gain by trying to make a comeback.