Ricky Hatton Open To Exhibition Match Against Oscar De La Hoya

Ricky Hatton is open to fighting Oscar De La Hoya in an exhibition match.

Hatton has not competed professionally since 2012 and ended his career on a two-fight losing skid. Yet, recently more fighters from his age are coming back to do exhibition which Hatton likes.

“If we are talking domestically, I would still love to see Joe Calzaghe vs Carl Froch. They very nearly came close to fighting, Joe was coming to the end, Carl was coming to the forefront. There is always those what-ifs, so if it were an exhibition between those two I think that would be quite a nice one for fight fans,” Hatton told Metro.co.uk (via boxingscene).

“If you are looking at heavyweights, we saw the talk of Mike Tyson vs Evander Holyfield,” Hatton continued. “Tyson blew the cobwebs off against Roy Jones Jr and Evander always looks in wonderful condition every time you see him on social media. He’s always training, he’s always on the pads. But I’m not sure if Evander has enough of his ear left to do eight or ten rounds.”

If Hatton does return for one of the exhibition matches, he says he would like the idea of facing Oscar De La Hoya. He wants to share the ring with him and see how good he is.

“I’ll have a move about with Oscar De La Hoya if the opportunity comes! Oscar was a hero to a lot of people in boxing so it would be interesting even if it is only an exhibition. To share the ring with him and find out first-hand how good he was and maybe still is,” Hatton said.

“It looks like he might be fighting former UFC fighter Vitor Belfort now but there is any number of boxers who would want it if Oscar keeps talking about it. Miguel Cotto would be a good one, Shane Mosley still looks after himself. The list goes on, me and Cotto, me and De La Hoya, De La Hoya vs Juan Manuel Marquez maybe! There are so many more.  And I think I speak for all fight fans when I say we’d love to see a couple of these,” Hatton concluded.

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