My final Hatton-Castillo prediction

[LemonChiff]

Hatton is 29 years old FFS. He should be way past his best for his style - he has a young man's style.

[Knicksman20]

Stamina is going to be key in this fight for both fighters. We all know that JLC is a slow starter but once he gets rolling he's a VERY tough fighter to discourage. To me he does everything a little better than Hatton. It took Chico almost the whole fight till he was able to get him out of there & Hatton doesn't have the kind of power Chico has. So I find it very difficult to pick Hatton by TKO unless JLC gets cut. If Hatton isn't in tip top shape he'll get stopped late. Hatton has never faced anyone that's going to be in his face all night like this.

[LemonChiff]

It'll be interesting

[medium-deek]

It'll be interesting

LOL. Did you spray that 'tash on Joe?

[medium-deek]

Hatton will win. If he loses, I will give anyone all my points (11,000)

[LemonChiff]

Bump......

[Easy-E]

I think Hatton wins early. He wants to beat Jose to the punch and cause first blood, and Jose just isn't the best on the backfoot. I can see Ricky stepping around and landing a bodyshot against a grounded Castillo when Jose's not in his territory on the frontfoot, Jose has always been a slow starter and three or four rounds, 600+ seconds is a long time for Ricky to find the moment to set his feet right and see an opening to the body. When Ricky's feet are positioned right and he hits to the body, no human body can stay upright, if he doesn't position his feet right but still has them levered and hits the body the opponent is not going to be the same for 10-20 seconds. And he can land under the floating rib, behind the elbow or up the solar plexus equally as well.

Ricky wins early. But if it goes a few rounds, it'll end up being a 12-round war with Castillo coming out on top. Every one of Hatton's bodyshot blow-outs have been in four rounds or less, never into the later rounds.

Castillo would need time to measure Hatton and if he did, he's simply a more polished technician. He's a master at cutting off the ring, although he wouldn't need to against Hatton. His left hand work is some of the best the business has seen, hooking off the jab to the head or body, left uppercuts, in-tight uppercut whips with either hand and switching to the body as fast as pie. Once Castillo would start getting off first, he'd take over.

nice call, dude.

[Tuggers1986]

I think Hatton wins early. He wants to beat Jose to the punch and cause first blood, and Jose just isn't the best on the backfoot. I can see Ricky stepping around and landing a bodyshot against a grounded Castillo when Jose's not in his territory on the frontfoot, Jose has always been a slow starter and three or four rounds, 600+ seconds is a long time for Ricky to find the moment to set his feet right and see an opening to the body. When Ricky's feet are positioned right and he hits to the body, no human body can stay upright, if he doesn't position his feet right but still has them levered and hits the body the opponent is not going to be the same for 10-20 seconds. And he can land under the floating rib, behind the elbow or up the solar plexus equally as well.

Thats ****ing scary. You couldnt have wrote it much better if you wrote it AFTER the fight.

Pick my lottery numbers please

[LemonChiff]

It was blatantly obvious

[jack_the_rippuh]

Good call, mate.
You know your ****e.