Promoter Mick Hennessy wants Hatton-Witter

10/08/2007

Promoter Mick Hennessy wants Hatton-Witter

Press Release: Yorkshire, England's Junior Witter faces Guyana’s New York-based Vivian Harris at the The Dome at Doncaster Lakeside on Friday, September 7 in a show to be screened live on Sky Sports. Harris, challenging for Witter's 140-pound WBC title, will not be daunted about facing Witter on his own turf after travelling to Germany twice to beat Oktay Urkal in defense of his WBA version of the world title in 2004. Promoter Mick Hennessy believes Witter’s task against Harris is more difficult than the one Ricky Hatton faced when he stopped Mexican Jose Luis Castillo in four rounds in America in June.  “I think what Ricky did by going out to Las Vegas and stopping Castillo the way he did was brilliant, but I feel Junior has got a tougher opponent in front of him on September 7th,” said Hennessy. “Harris is a far harder opponent than Castillo who wasn’t I believe a proven fighter at light-welterweight like Harris is, who is a former world champion in this division and big at the weight. This could be an explosive fight and if Junior wins – which I’m confident he will do in style – then the public will be demanding a fight between Witter and Hatton like never before, what ever the outcome of Ricky against Floyd Mayweather.