Castano has a ton of heart and will give it his best effort, but Charlo will win. Charlo is the stronger fighter and hits harder. Prediction: Charlo by KO/TKO in rounds 7 to 9.
Charlo debatable decision. People sleeping on Castano, maybe not as many here but in the wider community. But he will have to be very comprehensive in winning rounds to get the decision here. I feel Lil Charlo is big, powerful and overall good enough to prevent that from happening.
Castano fought bigger guys than Charlo in the amateurs. He was always on the small side in the ring. He's a stylistic nightmare for the current version of Jermell. Saying that the old Jermell could jab his way to a decision. But Jermell 2.0 is just a pure power puncher without a real game plan. Charlo probably wins a close decision in a fight that shoud have been scored for the Argie. But i can see Castano breaking him with body attacks. Jermell hates body shots and was slightly hurt to the body by Rosario in the early rounds. He's not reacting too well to body shots in general. If Castano can add them up and starts to land them early i can see Charlo going out at some point. I don't see a knockout based on strikes to the head. Charlo has a solid chin imo and his defense is decent too. Castano isn't a big puncher anyway.
The safe bet is Jermello because it's highly doubtful the three US judges (again ) are going to give it to Castano if he does enough to legitimately win. Maybe if he's so dominant that it makes it nigh on impossible for them to get away with robbing him he might get it. Look what they did to Korobov when he fought his brother. Not only did they rob poor Korobov but they robbed him blind in his very next fight against Aleem too and one of the judges scored it 119-108 for Jermallo which is barefaced corruption of the highest order
Castano boxes to a clear 8-4 type of performance... mental midget Jermell will be going nuts in his corner between every round. Of course the official cards will read 118-110, 117-111 and 119-109 for your winner by UD Jermell Charlo. (Those cards are already filled in btw. Literally sitting in envelopes)
I would love to see Castano win this one as I can't stand the Charlo brothers but I don't see anything in Castano. I don't know how the odds on this fight are close. Charlo by UD in a clear win.
Whoever wins needs to get credit for the win, I don't want to hear any excuses after the fight. Charlo TKO is my pick.