He'll be BACK in the ring as a welter against Margarito ear busted opponent Lujan Wednesday night. I don't think he'll be successful at 147, where he appeared destructible at 140 getting demolished by Hatton at 140. 135 was his most successful weight where he could overpower fighters due to his share size difference and ability to crack an opponent on the inside. But who is to say a fighter shouldn't go on doing what he loves? I'll TUNE in.
castillo is going to get his ass kicked. if he somehow wins, he'd be a perfect comeback opponent for cotto.
Yeah Castillo makes sense as a comeback opponent for Cotto. I just hope he doesnt get chosen as Margarito's next fight. That would be an epic mismatch, and theres a good chance Castillo would end up like Oscar Diaz.
i wonder if castillo will even make weight later today. either way, he's going to lose tomorrow night. lujan is a big ass welterweight. i wonder what the betting odds are.
Castillo should hang them up. I thought the Hatton match was his cash out fight. A Cotto fight would be a CHECK-OUT fight.
JLC may be the worst conceived to be elite fighter ever. Once he fights people his size, he will get animal fucked
Castillo 3-2 after he knocked out Corrales, and 2 of those wins against tomato cans. I think it's fair to say, the first fight between Castillo and Corrales took a lot out of BOTH fighters.
Yeah, and I don't think those weight problems helped either. Even before the Corrales fight, Castillo had been a veteran of a long career. His decline was bound to happen, but the Corrales fight just sped up that decline.
I think Corrales took more punishment in the first fight and was probably finished as a fighter from that fight. I don't think Castillo was finished from it, but the time off due to his failures to make weight, postponements, cancellations and suspension, plus the fact that he moved up to 140 (where he didn't look good, physically) hastened the end of his career. Let's remember, though, that in one of those fights he won, against Ngoudjo, he looked bad and still beat a fighter that Malignaggi arguably lost to. He is one of the most under-appreciated fighters of his era, though he did a great deal towards the end of his career to tarnish it. Still, fought some of the best lightweights of his era (Johnston, Mayweather, Casamayor, Corrales) and impressively held his own with each of them.
people bash him because of the weight issues, but Castillo was a helluva lightweight, a menace to everyone that dared stepped into the same weight.
