By Scott Gilfoid: Former WBA welterweight champion Luis Collazo (35-5, 18 KO’s) thinks Ricky Hatton is wasting his breath in trying to give tips to Amir Khan (28-3, 19 KO’s) to help come out victorious against Collazo on May 3rd. Collazo believes that the advice Hatton gives would only work for himself and not for Khan.
Hatton beat Collazo by a 12 round decision eight years ago in 2006 in a fight that many boxing fans saw as a robbery. They felt that Hatton, the more popular fighter than Collazo, was given a gift decision. It’s hard to take Hatton’s advice to Khan seriously given that Hatton really didn’t prove that he was a better fighter than Collazo. I mean, that’s like getting advice from one of Collazo’s victims in how to beat him.
If Hatton couldn’t figure out how to beat Collazo in 2006, how can he give Khan advice in how to beat him? Does that make sense to you? Collazo beats Hatton, and then Hatton gives Khan advice in how to beat Collazo. It doesn’t make sense at all to me. Khan would be better off getting advice from Andre Berto in how to beat Collazo, because he looked a tad bit better than Hatton in winning his controversial decision over Collazo in 2009. I had Collazo beating Berto too.
“Ricky can give him [Khan] all the advice he wants,” Collazo said to Sky Sports. “Amir Khan is tally different from Ricky Hatton. Styles make fights. He’s [Khan] moving up to the welterweight division and it’s different from 140-pounders…Although Amir Khan is big in size, let’s see how he does in the welterweight division.”
Yes, Collazo is right. I totally agree with him. Hatton’s advice to Khan would be great for himself if he were fighting Collazo, but for Khan it’s going to be a totally different situation in there. I mean, it comes down to this: If Khan can’t handle Collazo’s power, like he couldn’t handle Danny Garcia and Breidis Prescott’s power, then he’s going to get thrashed on May 3rd when he and Collazo face each other in the co-feature bout at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Khan is moving up to the full 147lb weight for the welterweight division, and he didn’t look good at all in his catch-weight fight against Julio Diaz at 143 in his last fight. That was Khan getting his feet wet in gradually moving up to the welterweight division, but in this fight he’ll be fighting at the full weight against a bigger puncher than Diaz.
Will Khan be able to take Collazo’s shots? Unless Khan is able to score an early knockout in this fight, he’s going to have to be able to take some big shots in the fight in order to win it. He isn’t going to be able to run around for 12 rounds and get a win without getting nailed hard more than 30-50 times to the head.
It’s too bad that Hatton never gave Collazo a rematch because their fight screamed out for a rematch given the highly controversial decision. Hatton was happy to get the win and he moved on immediately rather than tempting fate and giving Collazo a rematch that might have ended with a different result.
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