HATTON gives up IBF title

[Kev]

Thats the thing though,JLC has always looked bad against tune ups,even in his last fihgt v Reyes,he looked poor. He really turns up against the bigger names: Lazcano,Johnston twice,Corrales,Mayweather,Diaz,Casamayor,those are some AWESOME names! I feel Hatton would be too much for him but I feel JLC would whoop Paulie(who's nowhere near as slick as Floyd or Joel) and grind down Witter and Harris.

Well first off he lost to Coralles the first time, and Coralles really isn't an elite fighter anyhow, Diaz is about as good as Urango, I mean seriously who has he beat?

He didn't really beat Casamayor, he lost easily to Mayweather the second time around, the first one you could argue for him winning but Floyd was injured, and beat him easily in the rematch anyway.

Lazcano again is not a top level fighter, the guy has never even held a world title

I agree that Castillo is a very good fighter, but he's not the top 10 p4p great that most people seem to think he is. If Hatton beats him that doesn't prove a great deal to me to be honest. The real live opponents out there are Cotto, Mayweather, Margarito, Mosely, De La Hoya etc and we all know that Hatton wants nothing to do with them, probably even less after yesterday.

[Sf05]

I don't know why people expect fighters to respect the belts when there are so many of them.

Hatton can tell his mates down the pub that he is WORLD CHAMPION but then so are 3 other blokes.

How much fun would the world cup be if England, Brazil, France and Italy were the world champions?

That's why the world cup is so big because there is only one world champion, the same reason boxing was so big years and years ago...

Personally i'm glad Hatton has vacated, right now boxing needs big fights not dozens of champions fighting there easy mandatories *cough*

All a belt does these days is give the MC an extra couple of lines to say when introducing the 'champion'

[Kev]

I don't know why people expect fighters to respect the belts when there are so many of them.

Hatton can tell his mates down the pub that he is WORLD CHAMPION but then so are 3 other blokes.

How much fun would the world cup be if England, Brazil, France and Italy were the world champions?

That's why the world cup is so big because there is only one world champion, the same reason boxing was so big years and years ago...

Personally i'm glad Hatton has vacated, right now boxing needs big fights not dozens of champions fighting there easy mandatories *cough*

All a belt does these days is give the MC an extra couple of lines to say when introducing the 'champion'

Trouble is Hatton doesn't vacate his titles to go after the big fights. He vacates one paper title to after another paper title

You guys think he will go after Castillo but he probably won't.

Team Hatton are right now probably drawing up contracts to fight either Souleymane M’baye or Ricard Torres for their paper crowns.

I think Hatton feels that winning 6 or 7 world titles will get him into the Hall of Fame and any old title will do, providing the 'champ' is a tomato can.