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Its hard for me to predict this one because Tito is a unknown at this point due to the layoff. I really would love to see him beat RJJ, but at this point I'd take RJJ just on the size/power factor.
Don't forget speed and skill. There is not a single category in which Tito is even competitive. This fight is a joke.
Not a single category in which Tito is even competitive? Come on it is not that one sided of a match.

Tito is defenatelly competitive in Power, Chin, Stamina, Experience, punch accuracy and work rate.

The lay off will kill him in the end though.
I'll take these in turn:

1. Please explain to me how he's competitive in power. He's a welterweight. Roy has KO'd plenty at light heavy.

2. Given this fact, chin is completely irrelevant -- though it probably favors Roy anyway (Tito's ability to withstand welterweight shots says nothing about his ability to absorb punishment from a light heavyweight).

3. Roy's stamina is fine. Tito has put on 20 pounds of fat and sat on his ass for the past 3 years.

4. Roy has more experience. Objective fact.

5. Disagree that Tito will be competitive in accuracy when he's fighting someone twice as fast as he is.

6. Tito's work rate goes into the toilet when he's getting outclassed (see, e.g., Winky Wright).

I would be very surprised if Tito won a single round of this fight. And I would have said the same thing when they were both in their primes. An ATG light heavyweight against a very good welterweight? How can there possibly be any question?