Quote Originally Posted by El Phenomena
Cotto is doing the smart thing,fighting a decent fighter to get used to the weight and then settling in. It's smart,I expected nothing less. I prefer it to Hatton's strategy of jumping in at the deep end straight away,een though he won,it backfired. I expect Cotto's following assignment at 147 to be tougher for sure.
Spot on - Hatton's team screwed his foray into 147.

They had him tooo heavy (lost his zap and movement) against a southpaw (he struggles badly against southies) and abroad at 4am (UK time).

That was a perfect example of an amatuer team almost scrambling Hatton's dreams by mixing all the wrong ingredients into his debut.

The worst thing is, Ricky could hang at 147 - but this put him right off.

At least Cotto is being matched well (if not excitingly )