Quote Originally Posted by bilbo
Personally I think Ricky has had a disasterous year in 2006.

It's not just that he was outboxed and outclassed by little known Louis Collazo, the fact that he decided to move back down to 140 lb with his tail between his legs speaks volumes about his own belief in his ability.

After the Tyszu fight he became this almost super human figure at 140 and people were spouting off way to much about how he was going to beat Maweather etc and conquer America.

The reality is rather less of a success story for Hatton. He stopped an old Tyzsu, in front of his home fans in a fight in which Kosta quit, and in which he was allowed to fight his 'wrestling match'. In America he won't find the judges as accomodating, and as he found in Collazo, these young champions don't quit like Kosta did.

I'm not dissing on Kosta or Ricky but the fact remains that Ricky hasn't looked impressive since winning Tyszu's belt. He struggled against that weirdo Moussa who has just lost to a nobody, he was almost on his feet against Collazo, who, lets be honest, most of us had only heard of coming into the build up for his fight with Ricky.

Hopefully Ricky will look good against Urango and then a mega fight with Castillo can take place. After that, well I personally reckon he will coming back home.
i dont thionk his year has been disastrous, so ok he didnt get the fights he wanted, but belt wise hes been sucessful, and when he stepped up to welter he always said it wasnt a permanent move, ithink moving back dwn to welter is a realistic choice to achieve his ambitions, ok so fighting this urango chap for his old belt sounds abit of a joke but i think there are reasons behind it, being that if he gets a belt , a fight with castillo will be far more likely to happen. i ask you all dont write him off yet. oh yeah and as for maussa ok the hitman didnt look good, but neither did cotto, end of the day they both got the job done, and i wouldnt be surprised if witter beats chop chop