Quote Originally Posted by ICE COLD BOXING
Quote Originally Posted by tiger
if castillo (1st fight) and dela hoya can make a good fight of it and a close 1, so will hatton. no one can put better pressure on a boxer then hatton. I'm predicting hatton by close decision.
He outboxed Castillo in the rematch and has improved since then as for Oscar Hatton hasn't got a jab or Oscar's quickness thats what gave Mayweather trouble.

We might aswell say look what happened to Hatton when he fought the first fast fighter in his career aka Collazo but i will let Hatton off for that considering he wern't at his best i was disappointed he didn't give Collazo a rematch though.
Speed was not Hatton's problem v Collazo. Size was his problem, along with the chin of Collazo (other than the flash knockdown, he took Ricky's shots well). Ricky is faster than Oscar, for sure, at least at this point in Oscar's career. For handspeed, Ricky gets a small edge, for footspeed, Ricky gets a big edge.

I guess I'm a little disappointed he didn't give Collazo a rematch, because he would have won it, and won it clearly (though it wouldn't have been an easy fight). Then people couldn't use that fight (where Ricky won) against him.

Every fighter has their matchup problem. For Ricky, he has problems with strong southpaws. If I were him, I would avoid any southpaw with a size advantage for the rest of my career.