Quote Originally Posted by Smashup
Hatton v Castillo will eclipse it for true fight fans imo
Calm down, everyone's a little too hyped up about Hatton vs Castillo. I think that it will end up being the complete opposite. People are pretty much expecting ODLH vs PBF to be a boring chessmatch but it will be more exciting than we think. People are expecting Hatton vs Castillo to be a classic slugfest but it will be more of a clinchfest.

I'm saying this off of history: if anyone has truly watched PBF's career since he first won the title from Genaro Hernandez, he's had probably only two televised fights that could be considered "boring": the Baldomir fight (because he wanted to get to ODLH and obviously coasted the last half of the fight) and the second JLC fight (which I thought was good). On the biggest stages, PBF has been in good and entertaining fights; against Hernandez in his first championship match, against Corrales in a match he was picked to lose, against Gatti for the 140 belt and against Judah for his first 147 belt. In all the big stages, Floyd has been good to watch.

ODLH is always pretty much in good fights. He's not a brawler but he's active so the fights always keep a good pace. Outside of him running for dear life on the biggest night of his life, he's been a great fighter to watch.

These two fighters will come together and give a great performance. I'm very confident in this fact. And the best man will win.

On the other hand...

Ever since the Tszyu fight (which was frustrating to watch because of the wrestling and which was made to seem exciting due to the hometown crowd), Hatton has been a clinching robot. The only reason the Collazo fight was any good was because Luis finally stopped letting Hatton clinch all night and started fighting. The Urango fight was good until Ricky got touched on the stomach then coasted the rest of the match by hugging and holding.

Castillo has been so inactive it's amazing. He hasn't looked legitimately good since the first Corrales fight. He's pretty much still weight drained at 140 and he looked very sluggish in the ring against Ngodjo. Ever since Corrales, he's pretty much fought down to the level of the competition. What really worried me is that when the Hatton fight was on the line Castillo didn't really step up his intensity against Ngodjo at all and Ngodjo won some of the late rounds and almost took that fight. If Castillo didn't raise his level of intensity for a shot at a couple million, what makes you think he'll do it when he's already got the check in his hand? When his style collides with Hatton, we are gonna see Castillo fight until Hatton decides to start clinching again and Hatton will win another frustrating decision.