Let's get ready to rizzumble

Now that Jose Luis Castillo has escaped a ban from boxing for his failure to make weight in the Corrales rematch, it looks like Ricky Hatton wants to drop back down to 140 to take on the hard-headed Mexican sometime next spring.

And all I can say to that, No Masians, is… now we’re talking football.

Hatton/Castillo would be some serious shit. Two dudes who have never taken a backwards step in the ring. Two dudes who think defense is using their faces to block punches while hitting the other guy with more punches. Two dudes who have been laboring under the conception that they are a welterweight and a lightweight respectively, when they are both naturals at 140. And two dudes who are as tough as nails that are a lot tougher than most of the other nails.

My early prognostication? Castillo gets a stoppage around the 10th. Hatton doesn’t know anything but toe-to-toe warfare, and you go toe-to-toe with Castillo, you pay a heavy price. Hell of a fight, though, hell of a fight. I hope it gets made.

Hatton camp targets Castillo bout (BBC Sport)