Uranga-Castillo and Mayweather in 2007 for Ricky?

HATTON: I WANT TO BE THE BEST POUND-FOR-POUND FIGHTER ON THE PLANET
David Anderson
RICKY HATTON has revealed his plans for world domination in 2007.

Hatton is eyeing up three world title fights next year with the aim of being crowned the best pound-for-pound fighter in the business.

The unbeaten Mancunian will begin his campaign of conquest by dropping down 7lbs to challenge Colombian Juan Urango for his old IBF light-welterweight crown in Atlanta on January 13.


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Then he has agreed to face Mexican Jose Luis Castillo in his first defence in June before a possible shot at the undefeated Floyd Mayweather - regarded as No.1 in the pound-for-pound rankings - before the end of the year.


"That's my aim now, to climb the pound-for-pound ratings and be regarded as the No.1 in the world," said the shaven-headed Hatton, who has had his hair cut off for a cancer charity.


"I'm disappointed I won't fight again this year, but HBO have guaranteed me three fights in 2007.


"I'm going back down to 10 stone and I don't think anybody can live with me at that weight from a physical strength point of view. First up is Urango and my old IBF belt. That's no foregone conclusion and he's a southpaw, who's like a mini-Mike Tyson.


"But I expect to win and should I win, then I'll make my first defence against Castillo. He's above me in the pound-for-pound ratings so that would boost me if I could beat him.


"Then the obvious step forward for me will be Mayweather, who is recognised as the best operator in the world pound for pound."


That fight would probably be back up at welterweight at which Hatton struggled to beat Luis Collazo to claim the WBA crown in his last contest in May.


That doesn't worry Hatton and he's convinced he has the beating of four-weight world champion Mayweather at any division. "Although I accept that Mayweather is massively talented, he's never been tested by someone like me," he said.


"If he's going to beat me, he's got to have some serious firepower to keep me off and I don't think he could do that for all his talent. Mayweather wouldn't like my body shots, no-one in the world does, and they are what I would have to bring into play.


"He's got some great hand speed and some brilliant combinations, but I stand by my belief that if anyone can beat him, it's me. He may be ranked by all the best judges as the best pound-for-pound boxer in the world, but when I beat him they will have to think again. Maybe it will be the Hitman at the top of the pile!''


But first Hatton, who is 28 on Friday, must take care of the unbeaten Urango and he plans to be better prepared than he was when he faced Collazo in Boston - even if it means sacrificing his traditional Christmas festivities.


"Last time I only gave myself eight weeks to become a welterweight and looking back I know that wasn't long enough," he said.


"I only went out to Boston a week before the fight and that probably wasn't long enough either. This time I'll go out nearly three weeks before.


"It'll ruin Christmas, but Christmas is only three days and, anyway, every night is like New Year's Eve for me! "2007 is going to be a great year for me."


Mayweather beats Hatton for me thats my opinion at this moment in time, but i like the every night is liek New Yaears Eve for me, we could see that with your appearence on TV at the weekend!!

i can see mayweather beating hatton too but you never know.

Hatton sounds like he has a plan. But to be honest, I dont think Mayweather's gonna come down in weight to fight Hatton. As much as I'd love to see this fight happen it's slowly becoming less of a probability due to the choices of Hatton and Mayweather. One fighter's going up and the other's going down and, Hatton pricing himself out.

But you know, it sounds like he has a plan if he does it, it could be a possibility that Floyd has some reason to go down and fight him.

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Hatton sounds like he has a plan. But to be honest, I dont think Mayweather's gonna come down in weight to fight Hatton. As much as I'd love to see this fight happen it's slowly becoming less of a probability due to the choices of Hatton and Mayweather. One fighter's going up and the other's going down and, Hatton pricing himself out.

But you know, it sounds like he has a plan if he does it, it could be a possibility that Floyd has some reason to go down and fight him.

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I know what you mean, but saying that if Hatton puts on a top class performance against Castillo, i think the fight can be made at 147, we have to remember Mayweather aint a 147 fighter either he came into the ring at 147 against Judah, but i fancy Mayweather to beat him but it all depends on the Castillo fight for me, if he KO'S Castillo in decent fashion it should be made with the two fighters being HBO boys.

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Hatton sounds like he has a plan. But to be honest, I dont think Mayweather's gonna come down in weight to fight Hatton. As much as I'd love to see this fight happen it's slowly becoming less of a probability due to the choices of Hatton and Mayweather. One fighter's going up and the other's going down and, Hatton pricing himself out.

But you know, it sounds like he has a plan if he does it, it could be a possibility that Floyd has some reason to go down and fight him.

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I know what you mean, but saying that if Hatton puts on a top class performance against Castillo, i think the fight can be made at 147, we have to remember Mayweather aint a 147 fighter either he came into the ring at 147 against Judah, but i fancy Mayweather to beat him but it all depends on the Castillo fight for me, if he KO'S Castillo in decent fashion it should be made with the two fighters being HBO boys.

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Good point but Mayweather has much more incentive to go up to 154 whether he's effective or not. Because thats where the money is at. If he goes up he can fight De La Hoya, Shane, etc. But to be honest I don't think that's gonna happen either. Floyd just flirts with the idea of super fights and he's flirting with the stud of super fights and thats de la hoya. He's playing mind games with the fans.

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Hatton sounds like he has a plan. But to be honest, I dont think Mayweather's gonna come down in weight to fight Hatton. As much as I'd love to see this fight happen it's slowly becoming less of a probability due to the choices of Hatton and Mayweather. One fighter's going up and the other's going down and, Hatton pricing himself out.

But you know, it sounds like he has a plan if he does it, it could be a possibility that Floyd has some reason to go down and fight him.

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I know what you mean, but saying that if Hatton puts on a top class performance against Castillo, i think the fight can be made at 147, we have to remember Mayweather aint a 147 fighter either he came into the ring at 147 against Judah, but i fancy Mayweather to beat him but it all depends on the Castillo fight for me, if he KO'S Castillo in decent fashion it should be made with the two fighters being HBO boys.

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Good point but Mayweather has much more incentive to go up to 154 whether he's effective or not. Because thats where the money is at. If he goes up he can fight De La Hoya, Shane, etc. But to be honest I don't think that's gonna happen either. Floyd just flirts with the idea of super fights and he's flirting with the stud of super fights and thats de la hoya. He's playing mind games with the fans.

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Shane's coming back down to 147, as he's said for a while now. Agreed that Floyd will go up to 154 if he can't get a catch-weight with Oscar, but aside from Oscar, the fights are much bigger at 147. (One can only hope he's not serious about fighting Winky, who's weighed in at around 170 his last couple fights.)

I tell you,if Hatton can beat Castillo and can beat Corrales,PBF WILL fight him. It'll be probably be at 147,I don't see Floyd coming back to 140 although if Hatton could do that,he would give himself more of an advantage. I think Hatton should unify,beat the above 2 and call out PBF,lose and retire ;D Naaa,It'd be a very close fight but I think Floyd wins.

seems to me that Ricky is looking too far ahead, IMO boxer's should only think about their next fight.

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seems to me that Ricky is looking too far ahead, IMO boxer's should only think about their next fight.

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I agree, he needs to beat Urango, and then make the fight with Castillo, wich is not an easy fight for Hatton, he is jumping the gun way too soon.

Yeah a perfect example of that is when Morales fought Zahir Raheem. He was looking at Pacman and thats when things went rancid for him.

LMAO,I was jumping ahead too,lol. You guys are right,Hatton needs to focus on the job at hand,heck could the close fight with Collazo been because of over looking Collazo?

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seems to me that Ricky is looking too far ahead, IMO boxer's should only think about their next fight.

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aint sure if he was looking over him greg i just think he wants to draw us in and rememeber how good hatton was...........rememeber when hatton-floyd was nearly a done deal? well he wants to put himself back in the light by makeing statements like this! fair play to him and i hope he can do it........hatton floyd would be good at 140 but better at 147! more power punches ;D

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seems to me that Ricky is looking too far ahead, IMO boxer's should only think about their next fight.

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aint sure if he was looking over him greg i just think he wants to draw us in and rememeber how good hatton was...........rememeber when hatton-floyd was nearly a done deal? well he wants to put himself back in the light by makeing statements like this! fair play to him and i hope he can do it........hatton floyd would be good at 140 but better at 147! more power punches ;D

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Believe me I hope only good things for Ricky he's a real stand-up guy, I just can't remember that last time hearing a boxer say "I'm gonna beat person X, then Y, then Z and actually having it happen that way. There are way too many variables.

1) Urango pulls a huge upset (not likely, but possible none the less)
2) Castillo comes in at 185 and fails to make weight. (More likely)
3) Castillo Beats Hatton (Very possible)
4) Floyd moves up in weight (Extremely possible)
5) Floyd loses before Hatton gets to him (depending on PBF's competition could be a possibility)

Those are just some things that I pulled off of the top of my head. Believe me, at this point it is in Ricky's best interest to focus on Urango.

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seems to me that Ricky is looking too far ahead, IMO boxer's should only think about their next fight.

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aint sure if he was looking over him greg i just think he wants to draw us in and rememeber how good hatton was...........rememeber when hatton-floyd was nearly a done deal? well he wants to put himself back in the light by makeing statements like this! fair play to him and i hope he can do it........hatton floyd would be good at 140 but better at 147! more power punches ;D

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Believe me I hope only good things for Ricky he's a real stand-up guy, I just can't remember that last time hearing a boxer say "I'm gonna beat person X, then Y, then Z and actually having it happen that way. There are way too many variables.

1) Urango pulls a huge upset (not likely, but possible none the less)
2) Castillo comes in at 185 and fails to make weight. (More likely)
3) Castillo Beats Hatton (Very possible)
4) Floyd moves up in weight (Extremely possible)
5) Floyd loses before Hatton gets to him (depending on PBF's competition could be a possibility)

Those are just some things that I pulled off of the top of my head. Believe me, at this point it is in Ricky's best interest to focus on Urango.

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good points here greg cc for you! i only disagree with option number 2........i really dont think that castillo would risk doing that again...........to my knowledge wasnt his last fight at 140? did he struggle makeing the weight? but as for urango he aint done much dont know what he is like! will have to see.......i dont think floyd would want hatton tbh!

Why isn't Hatton fighting Collazo again?

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Why isn't Hatton fighting Collazo again?

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let it go man, Hatton is not gonna fight Collazo, too much risk with too little reward at this point.

hatton won't beat castillo so there won't be a hatton PBF fight

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hatton won't beat castillo so there won't be a hatton PBF fight

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agree 100%

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seems to me that Ricky is looking too far ahead, IMO boxer's should only think about their next fight.

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I agree, he needs to beat Urango, and then make the fight with Castillo, wich is not an easy fight for Hatton, he is jumping the gun way too soon.

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I too agree. I like Urango, and despise the British Troll, but even I will admit a focused Hatton should TKO or KO Juan Urango. Urango is a one dimensional south paw power puncher. But power punchers always have a punchers chance, and that chance can go up dramatically if Hatton looks past Urango and does not come in in good shape.

Whatever. Didn't he have a 2006 plan? What happened to that?

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Whatever. Didn't he have a 2006 plan? What happened to that?

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Collazo, thats what happend. Anyway, its late, I need advice on an issue, care to help me?

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hatton won't beat castillo so there won't be a hatton PBF fight

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How would castillo beat hatton?? they are near enough the same fighters except hatton is slightly stronger, Faster and has a better chin.

I think Castillo may even struggle against Harris if that fight goes through so Castillo and Hatton may not even happen.

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hatton won't beat castillo so there won't be a hatton PBF fight

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How would castillo beat hatton?? they are near enough the same fighters except hatton is slightly stronger, Faster and has a better chin.

I think Castillo may even struggle against Harris if that fight goes through so Castillo and Hatton may not even happen.

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Castillo is a lot stronger than you are giving him credit for, plus his agro style will be a new one for Ricky. I say this fight is more of a pick-em for me.

how the hell does hatton have a better chin than castillo

Urango needs to fight Rabah again. Until that is settled, I can't take him seriously. Funny thing is I even like Urango's style more than the hit-and -run Rabah, but a robbery is a robbery.

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Urango needs to fight Rabah again. Until that is settled, I can't take him seriously. Funny thing is I even like Urango's style more than the hit-and -run Rabah, but a robbery is a robbery.

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He aint going back to fight a tough fight that Rabah was robbed in. Maybe he can fight the new champ Junior

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Urango needs to fight Rabah again. Until that is settled, I can't take him seriously. Funny thing is I even like Urango's style more than the hit-and -run Rabah, but a robbery is a robbery.

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Rabah ain't got a hit-and-run style, just a RUN style. ;D His fight with Urango sucked big time, and was boring as hell, but hardly a robbery IMO. Truthfully, neither guy deserved to win a world title off of the crappy performance.

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Urango needs to fight Rabah again. Until that is settled, I can't take him seriously. Funny thing is I even like Urango's style more than the hit-and -run Rabah, but a robbery is a robbery.

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Rabah ain't got a hit-and-run style, just a RUN style. ;D His fight with Urango sucked big time, and was boring as hell, but hardly a robbery IMO. Truthfully, neither guy deserved to win a world title off of the crappy performance.

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Hardly a robbery??? Dear lord, did you by any chance think Tex Cobb was robbed against Larry Holmes Hulk? ::**

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how the hell does hatton have a better chin than castillo

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Probably from the fact Hatton has never been knocked out before and Castillo has.

Its not as if hatton hasnt been caught either, His defence isnt the best in the world so he has taken his fair share of full on shots and still walked through them all.

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how the hell does hatton have a better chin than castillo

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Probably from the fact Hatton has never been knocked out before and Castillo has.

Its not as if hatton hasnt been caught either, His defence isnt the best in the world so he has taken his fair share of full on shots and still walked through them all.

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If his fight with Collazo was 30 seconds longer he would have been done, he was out on his feet, not "walking through them all"

Ricky hatton is my fav boxer at the moment but im not sure if he could beat PBF because in the big fight Floyd mayweather can and usaully does put on a masterclass. hopefully in 07 hatton can over come these great fighters and become the best in the weight division he stays at.

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Urango needs to fight Rabah again. Until that is settled, I can't take him seriously. Funny thing is I even like Urango's style more than the hit-and -run Rabah, but a robbery is a robbery.

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Rabah ain't got a hit-and-run style, just a RUN style. ;D His fight with Urango sucked big time, and was boring as hell, but hardly a robbery IMO. Truthfully, neither guy deserved to win a world title off of the crappy performance.

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Hardly a robbery??? Dear lord, did you by any chance think Tex Cobb was robbed against Larry Holmes Hulk? ::**

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There is a very big differnce from a guy getting his face pounded in and totally outboxed, and HURT, like Cobb was, and a guy just running his ass off all night, throwing very few punches, and pitter patt crap at that, and inflicting absolutely no damage what so ever to his opponent. Not that Urango did a whole lot either, but he landed the better shots, less but more effective, pressed the action, and came to fight. Rabah didn't come to fight or even box, just to run and survive. Rabah is a lot like Cory Spinks, not Larry Holmes.

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Urango needs to fight Rabah again. Until that is settled, I can't take him seriously. Funny thing is I even like Urango's style more than the hit-and -run Rabah, but a robbery is a robbery.

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Rabah ain't got a hit-and-run style, just a RUN style. ;D His fight with Urango sucked big time, and was boring as hell, but hardly a robbery IMO. Truthfully, neither guy deserved to win a world title off of the crappy performance.

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Hardly a robbery??? Dear lord, did you by any chance think Tex Cobb was robbed against Larry Holmes Hulk? ::**

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There is a very big differnce from a guy getting his face pounded in and totally outboxed, and HURT, like Cobb was, and a guy just running his a** off all night, throwing very few punches, and pitter patt crap at that, and inflicting absolutely no damage what so ever to his opponent. Not that Urango did a whole lot either, but he landed the better shots, less but more effective, pressed the action, and came to fight. Rabah didn't come to fight or even box, just to run and survive. Rabah is a lot like Cory Spinks, not Larry Holmes.

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I wasn't comparing the magnitude of the fight or the fighters... It's just that it seems in your mind if a guy barrels forward and "comes to fight" he can't lose... Urango landing nothing great, no real big punches at all.. I admit Rabah threw pitter pat crap for the most part but he was still landing punches, and the bigger/best punches of the fight still came from him. You would really have to be an idiot to think Urango deserved to win more than a couple rounds if you watch the fight closely.

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Urango needs to fight Rabah again. Until that is settled, I can't take him seriously. Funny thing is I even like Urango's style more than the hit-and -run Rabah, but a robbery is a robbery.

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Rabah ain't got a hit-and-run style, just a RUN style. ;D His fight with Urango sucked big time, and was boring as hell, but hardly a robbery IMO. Truthfully, neither guy deserved to win a world title off of the crappy performance.

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Hardly a robbery??? Dear lord, did you by any chance think Tex Cobb was robbed against Larry Holmes Hulk? ::**

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There is a very big differnce from a guy getting his face pounded in and totally outboxed, and HURT, like Cobb was, and a guy just running his a** off all night, throwing very few punches, and pitter patt crap at that, and inflicting absolutely no damage what so ever to his opponent. Not that Urango did a whole lot either, but he landed the better shots, less but more effective, pressed the action, and came to fight. Rabah didn't come to fight or even box, just to run and survive. Rabah is a lot like Cory Spinks, not Larry Holmes.

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I wasn't comparing the magnitude of the fight or the fighters... It's just that it seems in your mind if a guy barrels forward and "comes to fight" he can't lose... Urango landing nothing great, no real big punches at all.. I admit Rabah threw pitter pat crap for the most part but he was still landing punches, and the bigger/best punches of the fight still came from him. You would really have to be an idiot to think Urango deserved to win more than a couple rounds if you watch the fight closely.

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BS man. Rabah ran all night. I don't always favor the aggressor. But I like mostly aggressive fighters, with the exception of B-hop, Toney, RJJ, JMM etc. There is a very big differnce between boxing and running and a lot of people fail to realize it. I thought Urango won it by a round or two honestly, but I was disgusted with the whole fight, and how damn bias Teddy and that other guy were being, Joe Tessitore thats his fukin name. They painted a differnt picture than what was actually happening. You had a guy who was scared, and tryin to the absolute least effort possible to slide by and get a decision, and a young one dimensional power puncher who was failing to cut down the ring. Neither were dominant, but one came to win and to fight, the other came to survive and hope to pitter patt his way to a bogus win. Anyway, thats all I got to say on the subject, I've argued about this crappy fight too much already, it doesnt deserve it.

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how the hell does hatton have a better chin than castillo

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Probably from the fact Hatton has never been knocked out before and Castillo has.

Its not as if hatton hasnt been caught either, His defence isnt the best in the world so he has taken his fair share of full on shots and still walked through them all.

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If his fight with Collazo was 30 seconds longer he would have been done, he was out on his feet, not "walking through them all"

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He may have been a bit wobberly but he then started fighting backso cannot have been that bad!!!!

I have yet to see the fight between Rabah and Urango but it does sound like a fight where onwe came to fight and landed barely anything and the other ran most of the night(from all I've heard). It's difficult judging those matches. I really dislike those runners too like Spinks,Rabah etc. I prefer a Floyd or Quintana who boxes beautifully. So Hulk and P4P,you think Oscar should have lost to Tito for running those last few rounds? Was Rabah like that?

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how the hell does hatton have a better chin than castillo

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Probably from the fact Hatton has never been knocked out before and Castillo has.

Its not as if hatton hasnt been caught either, His defence isnt the best in the world so he has taken his fair share of full on shots and still walked through them all.

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If his fight with Collazo was 30 seconds longer he would have been done, he was out on his feet, not "walking through them all"

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He controlled the last part of that round, its not as though he was hanging on so how do you come to the conclusion that an extra 30 secs would have been the end of him??

And as he took the shots and kept on walking, id also suggest that he did in fact 'walk through them all'

Hattons defence that night was totally non-existant. He was a human punch bag for collazo and he still couldnt put him down.

If he fought like that against a 'big' hitter then he probably would get ko'd but based on what we have seen from him and the shots he has taken flush you cant argue about his chin IMO

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how the hell does hatton have a better chin than castillo

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Probably from the fact Hatton has never been knocked out before and Castillo has.

Its not as if hatton hasnt been caught either, His defence isnt the best in the world so he has taken his fair share of full on shots and still walked through them all.

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If his fight with Collazo was 30 seconds longer he would have been done, he was out on his feet, not "walking through them all"

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He controlled the last part of that round, its not as though he was hanging on so how do you come to the conclusion that an extra 30 secs would have been the end of him??

And as he took the shots and kept on walking, id also suggest that he did in fact 'walk through them all'

Hattons defence that night was totally non-existant. He was a human punch bag for collazo and he still couldnt put him down.

If he fought like that against a 'big' hitter then he probably would get ko'd but based on what we have seen from him and the shots he has taken flush you cant argue about his chin IMO

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CC just as i saw it.

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Urango needs to fight Rabah again. Until that is settled, I can't take him seriously. Funny thing is I even like Urango's style more than the hit-and -run Rabah, but a robbery is a robbery.

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Rabah ain't got a hit-and-run style, just a RUN style. ;D His fight with Urango sucked big time, and was boring as hell, but hardly a robbery IMO. Truthfully, neither guy deserved to win a world title off of the crappy performance.

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Hardly a robbery??? Dear lord, did you by any chance think Tex Cobb was robbed against Larry Holmes Hulk? ::**

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There is a very big differnce from a guy getting his face pounded in and totally outboxed, and HURT, like Cobb was, and a guy just running his a** off all night, throwing very few punches, and pitter patt crap at that, and inflicting absolutely no damage what so ever to his opponent. Not that Urango did a whole lot either, but he landed the better shots, less but more effective, pressed the action, and came to fight. Rabah didn't come to fight or even box, just to run and survive. Rabah is a lot like Cory Spinks, not Larry Holmes.

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I wasn't comparing the magnitude of the fight or the fighters... It's just that it seems in your mind if a guy barrels forward and "comes to fight" he can't lose... Urango landing nothing great, no real big punches at all.. I admit Rabah threw pitter pat crap for the most part but he was still landing punches, and the bigger/best punches of the fight still came from him. You would really have to be an idiot to think Urango deserved to win more than a couple rounds if you watch the fight closely.

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The Urango-Rabah robbery was probably worse than the Toney-Peter robbery. I really don't remeber Urango landing a much at all.

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how the hell does hatton have a better chin than castillo

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Probably from the fact Hatton has never been knocked out before and Castillo has.

Its not as if hatton hasnt been caught either, His defence isnt the best in the world so he has taken his fair share of full on shots and still walked through them all.

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If his fight with Collazo was 30 seconds longer he would have been done, he was out on his feet, not "walking through them all"

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He controlled the last part of that round, its not as though he was hanging on so how do you come to the conclusion that an extra 30 secs would have been the end of him??

And as he took the shots and kept on walking, id also suggest that he did in fact 'walk through them all'

Hattons defence that night was totally non-existant. He was a human punch bag for collazo and he still couldnt put him down.

If he fought like that against a 'big' hitter then he probably would get ko'd but based on what we have seen from him and the shots he has taken flush you cant argue about his chin IMO

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So back to the original point, personally I consider Castillo a big hitter, probably in my estimation hits a lot harder than Collazo. Hatton has a really good chin, I'll give you that, but Castillo has a great shot of taking him out. Although I don't know why I'm debating this with a guy named RHHATTON and a guy that has Hatton as his avatar.