Quote Originally Posted by Dorfmeister
Very imaginative but still favoring Hatton and antecipating Castillo's decline. Both assumptions may be unrealistic due to the fact that Hatton doesn't know how to keep the distance when he tires so... If he tires, he's done cause there's no reason whatsoever for Castillo not coming forward and put punches together and have Ricky in serious technical hazzard, remember Castillo just took one fight off when he did the least to beat Ngoudjo, before that he was at his awesome self bombing Corrales to the canvas and don't tell me 135 lbs to 140 lbs means something, it doesn't mean anything at all, maybe the layoff, not definitely the weight class... If Hatton stops coming at him with his faster sharper, stronger punches he'll have to close the distance and immobilize much more as has been his trademark recently, grabing and clinching time after time... If I was to use my imagination, I would say Ricky is gonna run instinctively towards Castillo with his intensity and Jose Luis will not give him ground either so expect head butts, nasty cuts on eyes and a lot of inactivity when they get tangled, why not a no-contest decision on an accidental head-butt?
When I mentioned the weight I didn't mean that Castillo would be out of his depth at the weight but actually that 140 lbs is still not enough.

He's practically a full blown welter now.