VD - is Hatton too English for you bro ?

He beat Collazo and whilst putting in a very average performance with little preparation.

Collazo held all the cards - natural weight, belt holder, american soil...... and blew it !

I will concede he won it by a whisker - but he WON.

Furthermore - if Hatton did get it on again, he would beat him by country mile - Ricky's problem was that he couldnt get up for a fight with a guy he knew nothing about - especially given all his other stressful problems like having to fly to new york 2 weeks before to go to court because of Frank Warren then fly back to the UK again.

He is a simple human being - hell, would anyone want a 3hour airport wait, then a 7 hour flight to a case hearing across the atlantic, then fly all the way back again 2 weeks from your HBO debut?

Combined with the uncertainty that it would even go ahead (Warren tried to scupper it until the night) - it was a 'bad penny' desitned to be doomed.

But Hatton's grit pulled out the narrowest of wins.

So VD & Wacko - digest that.