Boy Green gives Hatton no chance by Kevin Taylor Nov 22nd 2007

British boxing all-time-great and former two-time world welterweight title challenger Dave 'Boy' Green doesn't give Ricky Hatton a chance against Floyd Mayweather on December 8th. Green, The 'Fen Tiger' from Chatteris, Cambridgeshire knows only too well about taking on the pound for pound best in the World after meeting the then unbeaten Sugar Ray Leonard for the WBC Welterweight title in Maryland, USA in 1980. "Hatton just isn't big enough; I really don't give him a chance against Mayweather. "Don't get me wrong Hatton has done marvelously, but at welterweight he will struggle, I don't think he even won his last fight at welterweight (against Luis Collazo for the WBA welterweight title in May 2006). "The good thing is he will be earning a lot of money from the fight." Boy Green was the British and European champion at light-welter, before moving up a weight to challenge first Carlos Palomino, who Green says was the best boxer he faced, and then Leonard for the WBC World title. Leonard the gold medalist at the 1976 Olympics ended Green's title chances when he knocked him out in the fourth round of their scheduled fifteen rounder in March 1980. "I feel if I had fought Hatton I would have beaten him, I'm bigger than him and I feel I would have beaten him on cuts, because I was a rough fighter. "The one thing big regret I have now looking back was that I should have gone for the World title at light-welter before moving up to welterweight."

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