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Phenomenal-Nutrition wrote:Happy 4000 Posts Maussa. Well Mayweather/Cotto are the glamour fights. Castillos next but it isn't as glamouress which ever way you want to spin it. Theres also Corrales at 140 in terms of names. This is beating up on old possibly shot men who've already had the stuffing beat out of them (by each other).

Lets be honest Ricky won't fight Witter, Harris, Mbaiye and those 3 and Hatton make up the top4 at 140. So no 140 will not bring the top fights.

At least at 147 the money should be such that he may step in the ring with another top fighter - Mayweather/Cotto

viciousmaussa wrote:Nearly every question on that rambling conference call talked about welterweights. Ricky, are going going up again? Ricky, was the 7 lbs the big difference vs Collazo.

For fvck's sake, Mayweather has a fight at 154, Cotto has a megafight with Margarito 2 fights away. Who is available at welterweight right now??

Also, a lot of ppl must have bad eyesight, because I don't think the 147 lbs was the only difference when he fought Collazo. Ricky HAD ALL THE SAME PROBLEMS versus Magee - also a slick leftie. The problems of hitting a slick leftie clean, the problem of eating too many right hooks, etc etc.

Also, there weren't too many questions of the subject of Juan Urango; or the good fighters at 140.

viciousmaussa wrote:

Phenomenal-Nutrition wrote:Happy 4000 Posts Maussa. Well Mayweather/Cotto are the glamour fights. Castillos next but it isn't as glamouress which ever way you want to spin it. Theres also Corrales at 140 in terms of names. This is beating up on old possibly shot men who've already had the stuffing beat out of them (by each other).

Lets be honest Ricky won't fight Witter, Harris, Mbaiye and those 3 and Hatton make up the top4 at 140. So no 140 will not bring the top fights.

At least at 147 the money should be such that he may step in the ring with another top fighter - Mayweather/Cotto

Blimey, I thought I was nearer to 2000.

Ricky did remind the reporters that "there are a lot of good fighters at light welter."

I know he didn't mean my favourites Witter, Mbaye or Kotelnik.


Castillo is close to being a Hall of Famer. I can't believe how he got down to 135 to grind out wins over Lazcano, Casa and Julio Diaz. Fingers crossed he looks great at 140 - he did say he's not just training for weight these days, he's actually working on a gameplan, LOL.

Torres has the WBO title, how can anyone resist Hatton-Torres?

Harris hits like a mule.

Never seen this Arnaoutis bloke, but he was meant to be a bit unlucky losing to Torres and drew with Urango.

Ricky has a dangerous, exciting lineup and there are potentially thrilling fights out there.

viciousmaussa wrote:Absolutely - if Hatton has a damn good fight with anyone at 140 there will be rematches because superficially (but not really) there aren't many owthy foes. There will be a need to create something big.

Personally, I think Hatton has nearly as strong a line up as Tszyu did (Hurtado, Gonzalez, Judah, Sharmbah, Bergman).

Phenomenal-Nutrition wrote:

viciousmaussa wrote:Absolutely - if Hatton has a damn good fight with anyone at 140 there will be rematches because superficially (but not really) there aren't many owthy foes. There will be a need to create something big.

Personally, I think Hatton has nearly as strong a line up as Tszyu did (Hurtado, Gonzalez, Judah, Sharmbah, Bergman).

If Hatton beat Castillo, Judah, Witter, Mbaiye, Kotelnik, Corrales over the space of 2-3years he'd have to be above Tyszu in terms of achievements. 4 of those fights are very unlikely though and not losing against them would be tough.

Terence wrote:

viciousmaussa wrote:Nearly every question on that rambling conference call talked about welterweights. Ricky, are going going up again? Ricky, was the 7 lbs the big difference vs Collazo.

For fvck's sake, Mayweather has a fight at 154, Cotto has a megafight with Margarito 2 fights away. Who is available at welterweight right now??

Also, a lot of ppl must have bad eyesight, because I don't think the 147 lbs was the only difference when he fought Collazo. Ricky HAD ALL THE SAME PROBLEMS versus Magee - also a slick leftie. The problems of hitting a slick leftie clean, the problem of eating too many right hooks, etc etc.

Also, there weren't too many questions of the subject of Juan Urango; or the good fighters at 140.

I did my first, and hopefull last, press conference last year for the Collazo fight and did not feel the need to write it up. Every question was a legal related one, often re-phrased from guy to the next. Fair enough but why not research that shite privately and ask about the fight itself?

I would think twice about attending another one, I prefer going to the gym and having a good fooking moan with the boxers and trainers!

viciousmaussa wrote:

Terence wrote:

viciousmaussa wrote:Nearly every question on that rambling conference call talked about welterweights. Ricky, are going going up again? Ricky, was the 7 lbs the big difference vs Collazo.

For fvck's sake, Mayweather has a fight at 154, Cotto has a megafight with Margarito 2 fights away. Who is available at welterweight right now??

Also, a lot of ppl must have bad eyesight, because I don't think the 147 lbs was the only difference when he fought Collazo. Ricky HAD ALL THE SAME PROBLEMS versus Magee - also a slick leftie. The problems of hitting a slick leftie clean, the problem of eating too many right hooks, etc etc.

Also, there weren't too many questions of the subject of Juan Urango; or the good fighters at 140.

I did my first, and hopefull last, press conference last year for the Collazo fight and did not feel the need to write it up. Every question was a legal related one, often re-phrased from guy to the next. Fair enough but why not research that shite privately and ask about the fight itself?

I would think twice about attending another one, I prefer going to the gym and having a good fooking moan with the boxers and trainers!

Did you ever read the Eastman conference transcript, pre-Hopkins? Every writer goes "Hi Howard, how are you?", "Hi Howard. how's things?" at least 20 times over. Last thing I remember Eastman saying was "Fine thanks...how are you?"

May be a tough concept, but I believe it is called being polite

They are inane drivel, conf calls.

The Blade wrote:

viciousmaussa wrote:

Terence wrote: I did my first, and hopefull last, press conference last year for the Collazo fight and did not feel the need to write it up. Every question was a legal related one, often re-phrased from guy to the next. Fair enough but why not research that shite privately and ask about the fight itself?

I would think twice about attending another one, I prefer going to the gym and having a good fooking moan with the boxers and trainers!