There is no room for sentiment in sport and Hatton should have left Graham as soon as he turned pro.

Roach would have made him into a far better boxer.

Harsh about Billy Graham. ATEOTD, Hatton was 41/42-0 with Graham and a multiple world champion. He also lasted 10 rounds with arguably the greatest boxer of our era under Billy's tutelage. Grahams mollycoddling of Hatton and his ability to train Hatton down from 14-15 stone into a world champion 10 stone fighter can't be underestimated.

Where as a 'better' trainer would never have allowed that to happan in the 1st place!

You can't be responsible for what a fighter does, or wants to do, between fights. The only person responsible for Hatton ballooning between fights is himself, and that would have been the same irrespective of who his trainer had been.

Graham has said in the past Hatton's habits between fights were not ideal, but he needed to do it in order to stay sane.

If I were Hatton though I'd want to stay in shape just to make sure my fine bird didn't leave me.

I hope the fight does go ahead. It would be better remembering Hatton as a winner (if he does win) rather than someone who was last seen knocked the f*** out on the ring floor (excluding his cameo appearance in WWE last week

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I agree. Even if he loses, his last fight should be in Manchester.

So a better trainer like Roach wouldn't have let that happen? I wonder why Roach couldn't 'make' Pacquaio leave the Phillipines a few weeks before the Cotto fight then. Some trainer he is.

Hatton doesn't have the natural ability of Mayweather or Pacquiao, so hard to call Billy Graham on his falings in those two fights. He may never have pounded Castillo out of there in 4 or Tsyzu in 11 under other trainers. He's always been a charge forward, defend with your chin fighter and it was always going to be his downfall against World class boxers with fast hands, or World class counterpunchers. The 2 losses on his record are against probably the best 2 boxers of the last 10 years.

It's not the same thing.

I don't think Roach would've accepted it. Giving Ricky the choice, sort yourself life out when you're not fighting or find a new trainer.

Good fight last night Rendall Munroe v Simone Maludrottu.

Will have to perform much better if he gets his world title shot but I am sure he can and hopefully Frank Maloney can get the Japanese champion over to Leicester or more likely Nottingham to give 2 Tone the best chance of a win.

Top bloke and deserves everything he gets out of the sport.

was definatly a lot closer that the judges got it good scrap from both boxers none deserved to lose. Im a big Monroe fan but he will have to step it up a lot to win the world title