I think Hatton takes it by decision and I don't think it's going to be the knockdown, dragout, phonebooth war that everybody expects it to be. At least not in the early going.

I think Hatton is well enough on his feet as he showed in the early goings against Urango to move inside and out and create angles to score and counterpunch. It was really a side of Hatton we hadn't seen much of and for 6 rounds of that fight he looked spectacular. I blame the fight going south more on Urango not opening up then on Hatton.

Hatton has the abilit to score a lot coasting by on his feet, picking his spots on the inside and then getting outside. He made it look easy versus Urango and Castillo's outside game is virtually nonexistant at this point in his career. Could be a boxing lesson of sorts if Hatton can manage to be effective when he gets inside and instead of holding, move with his feet. I don't think that lasts though.

In the middle rounds I think we might see that shoulder to shoulder action that makes this such an appeasing matchup and in that game it's a tossup. Castillo has historically been a lot more active on the inside but Ngoudjo showed that he can be outworked and we've always known he can be hit. Hatton roughed up one of the toughest boxers in all the game in Tszyu, he was magic that night. If he's anything close to what he was that night, this could be a special performance.

Hatton decision in a fight that really gets good after round 6.

Also, for the second straight week I'm missing a big fight. Last week it was complete bullshit and I regret it to the utmost as I would rather pay 50 bucks to watch my boy Cotto beat the hell out of Cotto then spend half that much money for the movies anyways. However, I did come back and find the RBR in all of it's drunken glory and Youtube even had the bout.

This weekend should be a little better, NASCAR. Camping out next to Infineon here in Sonoma, California from Thursday through the Sunday night. Should be fun, you can bet your drunken ass that I will be FUCKED UP come fight night unless I had to get my stomach pumped the night before. It's not like last weekend where I had a computer to go home to though, I'm going to have to phone somebody to get the results this time around that's not my parents. Anybody on the board in the US up for that? lol

This is a big fight, have to get my results somehow.