By Scott Gilfoid: If you were to pick a middleweight contender that you felt was good enough to unseat WBA Super World middleweight champion Felix Sturm (36-2-1, 15 KO’s), few boxing fans would likely choose underdog Martin Murray (23-0, 10 KO’s) as the guy that could get the job done.

However, Ricky Hatton thinks the 29-year-old Murray will pull off the upset next Friday night when Murray and Sturm fight at the SAP Arena in Mannheim, Germany.

Hatton said this on Sky Sports Ringside “I believe he [Murray] can do the job. He’s got a few gears to go up. He has no miles on his clock. I think he can go over there and do it.”

I don’t think Murray can. Doesn’t Hatton realize that even if Murray did go over there and “Do it”, he’ll still have problems getting the decision. The guy needs a knockout basically and he’s not a big puncher. Don’t know why he can’t punch because he looks huge and all the stair jumping exercises he’s been doing; you’d think he’d have developed some power, but nope, the power just isn’t there.

Murray doesn’t have much speed either. Indeed, he’s slow as heck and that’s going to be a problem for him. Sturm is going to be all over the guy and will be jabbing him to smithereens in front of a bunch of rabid German fans. Don’t what Murray can do. My advice is for Murray to rush Sturm in the 1st round and just trying to take him out. If it doesn’t work, try in the 2nd round and so and so forth. It doesn’t matter if Murray gasses out and gets stopped, because he’s not going to win a decision anyway. So he might as well just go all out in the first six rounds in the same way Matthew Macklin did.