Jose Luis Castillo vs. Sebastian Lujan, welterweights, 10 rounds. Should be a great fight (styles make fights) and it hard rto pick the winner. Both have big questionmarks... Of course the most important ones are that how much has Castillo left and can he succesfult at weltweight? My pick is Lujan by TKO in round 7. I belive that he is too big, strong and young for Castillo.
Lujan should be too much for Castillo. Too big, too strong and too energetic as stated above. I'll say it goes 10 rounds though. Lujan can be sloppy and Castillo has decent defense.
Hope Castillo pules a win cuz I always liket his fights,a great warrior.At lest he didnt have problems at the weigh-in.
Having watched the vid of Lujan-Matthyse, he's very crude with terrible defense, coordination, and balance, and doesnt shift his entire weight into the punch. Im picking Castillo to land the better shots and have better guard, Lujan should throw more and maybe land a few wild punches, but Castillo should win this by decision.
Lujan did not look in that fight, thats true. Matthyse is not a good fighter and Lujan was in trouble against him. But hasn´t Lujan been sparring with Margarito recently? In that case he should be in shape now. I expect him to beat the faded and too small Castillo. Becouse of their styles, the fight will be VERY physical and at that department Lujan should have a big edge.
I'm leaning on Lujan via T/KO . . . the guy has fought up to 154 and considering this is Castillo's first fight at 147 . . . I'm expecting Lujan to take him out late.
THey mentioned it on the HBO broadcast. Also Doug Fisher mentioned it on the Top Rank Broadcast of the undercard.
Lujan was one of Margo's sparring partners for the Cotto fight, Doug Fischer from ***Boxing.com talked about it after visiting Margo's gym before the fight.