Hatton TKO Tszyu 11!

American TV must hate money, that Morales/Pacquiao fight would have drawn a huge audience with only minimal promotion & an even bigger one with a little work. Pac-Man is such an exciting fighter win or lose, exactly the sort of guy who'll draw in the casual viewer...I can't even think about how hard you gotta work to follow boxing anymore, it's just so depressing. And here we got one of the hardest-punching heavyweights since Ernie Shavers if not Liston in Samuel "the Nigerian Nightmare" Peter & nobody besides us fanatics are ever even gonna see him throw a punch.

And the reason PPV goes over network is money. The people who want to watch Pacquiao/Morales are going to watch it, one way or the other (typically). So figure that there's 3 million people who will watch it, and maybe another 3 million who are interested in it just because its boxing. That's 6 million people to watch a TV program. So for the network just to put that fight on, they have to be able to match the revenue of the PPV (which made a little over $17 million from buys). That's a lot of money to recoup in commercial time, even on a Saturday night.

(btw, who saw Castillo/Corrales? THAT was a fight.)

Why have sports at all? We can just sit at home and make sarcastic remarks while typing to each other on boxes. That's so superior.

This result has made me a lot happy than any boxing result has for a few good years.

I'm not sure if he's good enough to go up against the Mayweathers of the world.

Apparently he wants the winner of Corrales/Castillo at light-welterweight next... hmm. Curioser and curiouser. I'd be more inclined to fight the winner of Anderson/Muttley, but that's not gonna draw a fucking penny in the States, so Hispanics as far as the eye can see it is.

Castillo is tenatively scheduled for a bout with Cotto if both men win their upcoming fights, so Hatton could be SOL if Castillo wins the rubbermatch. Hatton will probably end up with the winner of Gatti/Baldomir, given everyone's association with HBO and the fact that its the best way to protect everyone involved. Plus it would be "unification" bout at 147 should it get approved by the WBA.

Fluke decision? Collazo won that fight according to everyone at ringside. Juan Rivera's shown his value since, no doubting that. Collazo would probably take out near everyone in the division, minus Mayweather and Margarito.

Hatton's camp wanted Lazcano or Naoufel Ben Rabah and HBO turned it down. They were put in a situation where it was Collazo or nothing, and they had to take Collazo, not by choice.

if this comes to pass Hatton will destroy either of these guys