Hatton Drops Title, $2 Million To Face Castillo

[The Surgeon]

Yeah but Hatton has the Ring belt to carry into the ring with him that night. The undisputed light welterweight championship is on the line in Vegas that night

Thats the only thing that ****in matters! **** the Alphabet bitches!

[Guest]

So what was the point of fighting Urango?

[JunglistSoldja]

Call me dumb but does this mean that there is no belt on the line at all

[cupcrazy01]

So what was the point of fighting Urango?

Call me dumb but does this mean that there is no belt on the line at all

The point of fighting Urango was in fact to get his IBF belt back (he vacated it when he fought Collazo), and I'm sure Hatton didn't anticipate the IBF making him vacate after winning it (hence the rumors last week he was interested in the N'Dou fight--to KEEP the belt he just won).

The Wire is right, this fight IS a title fight, it's for the Ring title and concurrently the undisputed 140 lb. title.

The IBF must hate Hatton for some reason. He leaves 140 for one fight against Collazo (never said he was going to stay at 147 I don't think), and they strip him. Then he comes back, wins it easily vs. Urango, signs to fight Castillo (attn IBF: JLC is no undeserving challenger), and he gets stripped again? Unreal. Compare this to PBF not getting stripped of his WBC weltertitle belt to fight Oscar (not yet, anyway) and he didn't get stripped of his WBC 140 belt until after the Judah fight was signed, which made TWO fights at 147 for him.

Why doesn't the WBA strip Cotto for not fighting a mandatory in his first defense? And since Hatton actually won the IBF belt BEFORE, he didn't just win it for the first time, doesn't it make sense for the IBF to give him at least one voluntary? The IBF is just worse than most of the other already-dreadful alphabets.

Oh well, I guess he would have vacated after Castillo anyway, because IF he beats Castillo everyone will want him to fight the Witter-Harris winner or someone like Cotto or Mosley, if he dares to give 147 another try.

[AllEyesOpen]

As expected, Ricky Hatton informed the IBF in writing that he would vacate his junior welterweight title to move forward with a June 23 bout with Jose Luis Castillo in Las Vegas. [details]

So what was the point of the Urango fight again?

Edit; never mind

[Run]

Yeah Hatton is a real fighter.

That's why this fight will be made and more than likely will be exciting.

Oh and belts don't make the fighter, fighters make the belt.



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[freedom213]

i think both fighter didnt preform well in there last fight.

anway a title does mean something if you dont have a name in boxing it the path of getting you own name another thing it alway good to have unifaction thing going on

I thought Hatton looked very good in the begining than he gassed out

[Guest]

Yeah Hatton is a real fighter.

That's why this fight will be made and more than likely will be exciting.

Oh and belts don't make the fighter, fighters make the belt.

Then why bother fighting Urango? All Urango offered was a belt. The fight was a total waste of time and he should have went straight to the Castillo fight...

[Kball15]

Call me dumb but does this mean that there is no belt on the line at all

Thats good. The sport needs to learn that NON-TITLE fights could mean big money as well, and more non-title big fights should be made

[boxer2k5]

belts are jokes now
peopel want to see fights
who cares if ndou becomes ibf champion
noone will respect him.

and he wont be consisdered champion
everyone knows hatton is the junior welter champ
thats all that matters

plus who is going ot remember hatton vs ndou unless its a straight
war n hatton lose

people want to see hatton vs castillo
and that will look better on their legacy