After watching the ‘Magic Man’ come through a tough bout with Pablo Cesar Cano via a tight split decision on Saturday night, the 32-year-old likes what he sees from the newly-built Barclays Center in Brooklyn.
Another possible venue for the clash is the world-famous Madison Square Garden, a dream venue for any fighter. Hatton is on course to seal the fight if he can come through Vyacheslav Senchenko with flying colors next month.
“I thought Paulie’s fight with Cano was very close. Nut, I thought he won the fight. 114-113 was probably about right,” Hatton told World Boxing News.
“If I get the performance I’m expecting against Senchenko on November 24th at the Manchester Arena. Then I’d love the chance to fight Paulie again either at Madison Square Garden or the new arena in Brooklyn.
“The New York boxing fans and the ‘Hitman Barmy Army’ from the UK would make the Big Apple bounce!”
Hatton is deep in training for what will be just his third fight at 147lbs, and some may argue that he has a lot to prove after indifferent performances against Luis Collazo and Floyd Mayweather at the weight.
No doubt in my mind, had the Mancunian continued fighting after the Manny Pacquiao defeat, then he would have grown into the weight by now anyway, and it should be just like fighting back at 140lbs for Hatton’s fight time.
In the ilk of Hatton of old, a destructive victory would certainly set pulses racing around the boxing world and set the four-time world champion up for some mouth-watering clashes in the coming year.
