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Quote Originally Posted by Tam Seddon
Fair play castillo and corraless are big names! but thats 2 big names compared with about 5-6 big names at 147. AMIR KHAN!!!!!!!! you being serious? how is he a big name? he aint done S*** and he never wont for a very long time. Not in 3 years time to justify him having a fight with Hatton who would want to be rememberd as a legend. Amir Khan would not help him there mate. A fight with Floyd would help him a lot more!
Hatton was never meant to be a 147 fighter.

He was due to fight Lazcano at 140 who broke his finger

HBO offered the Collazo fight

Chance to be a two weight World Champion

7 weeks prep to move upto 147 and fight a very under-rated Southpaw in Collazo

Still won a UD, not even a controversial fight if Collazo didn't have that 12th round

Graham is on record saying 140 is Hattons optimum weight and he gives an advantage away @ 147

Hatton may have stayed and took Urkal as a mandatory and grown into the weight but Arum offered them Castillo. This was straight after the Collazo fight whilst they were still in the US!!

Hatton will move to 147 to fight Cotto or Mayweather (Marquee names)

Simple really
Well i feel Hatton could have had bigger names at 147, dont get me wrong i aint complaing with a castillo fight but that just makes me think why did he even bother going to 147 in the first place? i know someone will reply HBO would only offer than Luiz fight but at the end of the day if he wasnt ready why did he bother. I would have prefered him to stay at 140 and then have a full prep at 147 and we can see Hatton at his best. In the long run Hatton needs to fully prep at 147 get a good build up name and get his ass at 147.