Quote Originally Posted by WWatt
Quote Originally Posted by J_Undisputed
For his introduction over here, I doubt they will pick someone he will lose to or look like crap against.
Collazo was the LAST choice opponent.
First, last or somewhere in between... The guy wouldnt have been in the pool of possible opponents if Ricky couldnt beat him and do it impressively. Hattons style is crowd pleasing and brutal and he's too hot of a commodity to let his fire get snuffed out before it even gets started. Very few managers and promoters are willing to take real chances these days on their cash cow getting beat before hes ripe. I think it has to do with truley great fighters coming around so few and far between these days.

Most management would sooner postpone claiming injury than put their big name with an undefeated record in against a guy who could beat him .. in his big debut infront of an expanded new market. The better ricky looks for this fight. The more new fans he'll make, the more T-shirts are sold, the more endorsement opportunities he might get, the more he'll be courted by the networks and the better his chances look against Mayweather.... Considering all of that, he stands to make a killing... I doubt they would take the chance to throw that all away on a guy like Collazo. I say Hatton brings power up with his weight and eventually catches and stomps a mudhole in Collazo dropping him a few times with a body attack. I'm not saying Collazo will try and be cooperative, but i'm saying for this fight... (if it was planned right)... Collazo's level of cooperation wont be a deciding factor.