Quote Originally Posted by miles
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Ricky won the fight with ease. He won most of the rounds anyways. He had no need to fight differently...

My only issue with Hatton is that he isnt fighting enough. Once last year. Only twice this year perhaps. With a guy like Hatton who has a tendency to balloon up, this is my only gripe. He is aging himself prematurely...

I do hope he beats Castillo well though. It wont be an easy fight...
I think he should. Any fighter who goes life and death with Coralles is not an elite fighter imo. Corrales was a great all action fighter but not much better than Gatti.

Castillo ain't all that.
I agree with what you are say here. And because you are not dissing my pick I will give you a

Im almost on the level of combining Shakespearean couplets with the pop art image of the coolclick here!

Thankyou Miles and cc returned although I'm quite sure I have no idea what you meant in your second sentence :P

Castillo's record isn't that impressive. He fought very well against an injured Floyd Mayweather although in the rematch he proved it was a one off performance.

He barely scraped past a novice fighter last time out who look oh so impressive against the mighty Randall Bailey last week. He won a hotly contested decision over Casamayor and to my knowledge with the exception of his 4 round ko job on a severely weight drained Corales (whilst he himself cheated by not bothering to make weight) he's never beaten a top level opponent in style.

Apart from going 1-1 with Coralles his biggest wins are a gift of a decision againts Casamayor and a defeat to Floyd Mayweather.

Such an overatted fighter imo and quite apt that his 'megafight' shoulld be against the only other fighter who has a more inflated rating than him.

It's a shame the fight wasn't in Texas as then it could have been billed Castillo vs Hatton Texas Hold'em.

Anyway I predict Hatton will win a dreary 12 round decision in an ugly brawling mess of a fight.

Afterwards he will give his usual spiel about the important thing was winning this fight, not necessarily looking good and that now he's got the win he will give a much better performance next time as he goes after S Mbay'es world title to complete his set of paper christmas cracker crowns. He will have crowns in all 4 colours so that he, Matthew and mum and dad can sit around the table on Christmas day wearing all of Ricky's paper crowns, eating lots of Yorkshire puddings and getting even more fat.