Indeed. Nobody with any clue thought Hatton-Castillo was 50/50 or had the Mexican in the top 10 p4p, that's ridiculous. It was obvious Castillo was al washed-up. Wicky said before the fight Castillo was one of the best p4p of all time, but that's just typical Hatton bull****. It's tough looking for his best wins. Collazo was **** all but still most, including myself, though his late really where he almost had Hatton out made him the clear points winner. Tszyu -The Korean/Russian retired after the Mitchell fight only to come our for the money on offer to fight Hatton. He got stitiched up in the fight, home cooking and the ref let Hatton foul his way to victory. This was just Tszyu's retirement fund. Still, the fight was very close at the point Tszyu was sick of the low blows, elbows etc. and quit. So, not much there. And to think Hatton when he did face top fighters around their prime got totally banjoed.....in a way that pretty much no other PBF or Pac opponents have been. He was a joke fighting at that level.
To be fair Collazo has made a career out of losing unluckily and then claining he was robbed. Urango at the time was an unbeaten hard puncher . Basically Maidana . Hatton was good solid world chamion who was arguably the best in the world at his weight for about 3 yepars. The only guys he lost two are the PP1 and PP2 in the world . That said i do think there was something fishy about the Malinaggi fight . I'm pretty sure that was rigged .
what do you mean by the malignaggi fight was rigged? Do you mean by the way it was stopped? Hatton is just a much better fighter than paulie.Paulie is world class but loses to outstanding champs like cotto,hatton,khan.paulie might have survived but hatton was coming on strong and not even breathing hard.I think the collazo win was very good in retrospect,Hatton went up in wieght and ground out a win against 147lb champ that is tough as nails.i'm sure collazo would have defeated witter had witter went up to fight him and i'm sure bradley and Khan would have similure problems going up and fighting collazo today.
I agree, Collazo would pose problems for todays 140lb crowd if they stepped up. I still had Hatoon by a round. Paulie just simply wasnt strong enough or good enough to beat Hatton, and it was a decent win for Wicky. Castillo is a good win, he was just outside the P4P rankings (which I hate anyway). Even his WBU run was better than some people runs with "real" world titles!
Kostya Tszu was Ricky Hatton's best win by a long way. The timing of that matchup was right for Hatton but he did get the job done.
say what u will but tyszu was regarded as one of the best p4p fighters at the time and even though he didnt look amazing he still beat collazo whos an underrated fighter
I thought mausa/mauza was a good win. tall unorthodox opponent, hatton badly cut over both eyes, pressure on, danger of having fight stopped and pulled it out of the bag with a stunning left hook.