Fatty Ricky should give it up

By Frank Warren, The Sun

RICKY HATTON claims he was on top in the second round when he fought Manny Pacquiao.
In Hatton World he was romping it until he took a three-minute kip on his back.

And in that same world he also believes he was winning his fight with Floyd Mayweather until the American got lucky.

Now Hatton is in talks with Mayweather victim Juan Manuel Marquez about a fight in June.

In Hatton's world, and that of his lawyer and so-called boxing expert Gareth Williams, it is a good fight for Ricky against an elite fighter.

It is a good fight for Williams and Hatton's promotional company - but a terrible one for boxing and the Hitman.

It would be nothing more than a money-grabbing exercise by a man with millions in his bank.

How many pictures have there been recently of him leaving nightclubs and pubs?

You have only got to look at him to see it will not be safe for him to fight, and for him to think otherwise is ridiculous and delusional.

He must be walking around at 14 stone. If the experts around him cared about his well-being they would stop him from boxing.

He needs to be saved from himself, and if he cannot see sense then the respected Boxing Board of Control should stop him.

Just one look at Ricky on the pitch at the Potters in his XXL Stoke City shirt should tell the Board all they need to know.

They don't need the money from sanctioning any fight with Marquez as they've just donated £10,000 to the WBC.

That forms part of the compensation it owes Graciano Rocchigiani for stripping him of his light-heavyweight title.

Ricky talks about the welfare of boxers and looking after them.

So it was surprising last week when Darren McDermott and other boxers appearing on his latest show in Stoke were asked to vacate their hotel rooms by 11am on the day of the fight. That left many of them with nowhere to go until the venue opened.

Jane Couch led the protests and got the decision reversed.

• JOE CALZAGHE says that Strictly Come Dancing is a fix, claiming he was booted out even though the public kept voting for him.

If anything was fixed it was his feet - to the floor. Joe (right) was a great boxer but moved like Nikolai Valuev when dancing.

• YURI FOREMAN became the first orthodox Jew for 30 years to win a world title when he beat Daniel Santos last weekend.

Dmitry Salita hopes to be the second by dumping Amir Khan next month. For more boxing news, see frankwarren.tv

Source: thesun.co.uk

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