MICHAEL HIRSLEY, CHICAGO TRIBUNE: It sounds like from some of the responses up to this point that you’re a little bit torn between staying at junior welterweight for the likes of this title fight and Castillo and perhaps the unification and moving up for the big names like Cotto and Mayweather. If you start thinking more seriously about welterweight, would you take a few tune-up fights or do you think you just need more time in training camp to get ready for a welterweight fight?
RICKY HATTON: I think I’d just need more time in training camp really. I mean people when they go through the weight of it. You know, I’m a different build to what most people there. I think if I was a little bit on the taller side maybe it would be easier for me to go through the weight divisions, maybe something like a Tommy Hearns or an Oscar de la Hoya has been able to do, but with me being very short and stocky type frame it doesn’t, I’m not really built to move up the weight divisions.. But I think, yeah, I haven’t me back on the welterweight division but obviously to go from fighting at junior welterweight to Welter in seven weeks was a trial. It doesn’t give you much time to bulk up. In fact more importantly it doesn’t give you much time to do it correctly. You do things that are a little bit more rough. So no, I mean, these are a couple of big fights. I got that welterweight title and I haven’t turned me back on the welterweight division, but yeah, I’d just like I think I would perform better at welterweight given more time to grow into the division. And I think that makes perfect sense.
MICHAEL HIRSLEY: Well you really would want your fist fight, should you move up to welterweight, to be against one of those name fighters as opposed to taking some sort of a tune-up fight?
RICKY HATTON: No, I don’t think I’d want a tune-up fight. I mean obviously you know you need fights to get you motivated. So in order to get myself motivated I need challenges. And in any way, shape, or form am I losing the hunger side of me game but I mean the fact that I’m fighting Las Vegas for the first time is a massive incentive. It’s a massive incentive that I’m challenging somebody for their world title again, that’s another massive incentive. I think if I was given maybe an eight round maybe a ten round so I could tune up like you say to fight at welterweight. I don’t think it would necessarily be the best thing for me. I would like to fight the best names in boxing. That’s what I’d like to do and as long as I have a training camp like I’ve had for this one, you know, plenty of time to prepare correctly, I think yeah, proper performance, you know because last time, I don’t want to take anything away from Luis Collazo’s performance against me, but I was training to fight Juan Lazcano and like seven weeks before all of a sudden there was a change, oh, right no you’ll fight at welterweight now. Your diet changes, your weight training changes, I mean it was all a little bit rushed and when you go up in weight division to fight the world champion the last thing you want to do is rushing it.
MICHAEL HIRSLEY: Aside from Urango and this title fite and the possibility of Castillo, is there anyone else at junior welterweight that you look as a big enough name to make a big payday fight with you?
RICKY HATTON: There are some good names, there are some unification matches that can be made. Most people would have Jose Luis Castillo in their pound for pound top-ten ranking so that’s going to be a mega fight and that’s what’s given me the extra incentive to take the title from Juan Urango. But there are some good names down at junior welterweights though, and I’m just keeping all options open in both weight divisions. I haven’t really, nothing’s set in stone. I want to fight him, I want fight him. Ultimately my main goal depending on what Floyd Mayweather would like to do after the Oscar de la Hoya fight. I think that would be a main fight. It wouldn’t be the best pound for pound in boxing but it’s very hard really. If you start looking too far ahead in the future you can take your eye off the ball and I’m not going to do that with Juan Urango because if I’m not on me game, he’ll beat me. But if I am on me game, I should beat him. So that’s what I’m focused on at the minute.
ROBERT MORALES, LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS: I have a couple of questions for Juan. Juan can you tell us a little bit about your life growing up in Colombia, what kind of life you had, a rough life, easy life?
JUAN URANGO: (Translation): I come from the country, hard working. We’re working hard every day our countrymen, in a poor country, a pretty simple life. You are out there working hard every day. There are farms, cattle, horses. Real country.
ROBERT MORALES: How old were you when you moved to Florida? Is that pretty recent?
INTERPRETER: It’s going to be about four years now.
ROBERT MORALES: What does he think about the difference in the two lifestyles?
JUAN URANGO (Translation): I come from an area in Colombia which is like a country, country; rivers, farms, cattle, horses. You know, the real country type. Definitely America’s a totally different place. Everything is advanced. There are all kinds of different opportunities, (more) than there are where I came from. And I thank God for giving me the opportunity to come to the United States and have a better future for me and my family.
ROBERT MORALES: Being that this is the biggest stage that you ever fought on, do you have more butterflies than usual?
JUAN URANGO (Translation): I don’t. God hasn’t given me a spiritual fear but of power dominate and love.
PAT SHEEHAN, THE SUN (UK): We’ve cleared up the thing about your elbow. Can you tell us what you’re missing first of all about the UK? I know it was your son’s birthday yesterday wasn’t it?
RICKY HATTON: Yeah it was. Campbell, my little boy, it was his six birthday today. Every birthday’s special, but when your kids are about five and six years of age it’s a wonderful time to go from not being a baby to like little people and it really would have been nice to spend the birthday with him but I spoke to him on the phone this morning and he’s got loads of presents and everything. So yeah, I am very, very disappointed. I love my sons to bits but to the (inaudible) it’s one of many sacrifices that I have to make for this fight. Obviously make me more determined to come there and do the job type thing. So yeah, I mean, apart from missing my son and my family I’m a very home from home type person as you know. But just looking out if you are going to box anywhere I think Las Vegas is the place to be. It really is an exciting and happening town and you got two exciting fights in the main events in a couple weeks’ time.
PAT SHEEHAN: And what’s it like walking down The Strip seeing your name up in lights?
RICKY HATTON: Oh, it’s fantastic. I never really had thought, you know from where I come from, boxing at the working man’s clubs or social clubs in and around Manchester around the council estates to this. It’s unbelievable. And also, because I also know when my family comes over and my very close friends, my boyhood friends are going to walk down the strip and see my name up on the big screen and the flashing lights. It’s really quite emotional to be honest. And all these things involved make me more determined to put on a really good show.
PAT SHEEHAN: You got a bit choked up this morning?
RICKY HATTON: Yeah I did actually. Yeah, I did. Campbell said “Hi Dad, how is your training?” And just the sound of his voice, not necessarily what he said, just the sound of his voice does get you a little bit, does get you a little bit emotional. But Sheehan, coming off the phone with him I just want to go down the gym and hitting the punchbag hard – very hard. I love him to bits but I am out here to be called world champion again and hearing him from so many miles away has made me more determined to get the job done against Urango But no, I mean me and Campbell have plenty of good times when we get back and to be honest, I’m doing all this to give him a better life. So, yes it is sad, but that’s what makes the success all the sweeter when it does happen.
PAT SHEEHAN: Yes, because I understand that when you win a belt you had a miniature made for him didn’t you, a copy?
RICKY HATTON: I did. Yeah, he got a little miniature baby belt for that (inaudible) had made for me. So yeah, it’d be nice if he could, even though I never really thought about, I forgot all about that. But I’m sure there’s no reason why I won’t be getting the belt. I could (inaudible). He’s very, very clever. He goes I’m very fortunate. I had one done at a miniature WBU one a miniature WBA one, a miniature IBF one. He goes through all the belts of that sport and that’s your belt and that’s my belt. So yeah, I mean, I’m way in the belts, but why not? He can have his own little belt as well with a bit of luck.
PAT SHEEHAN: And obviously, you know, Juan Urango has a terrific reputation as a power puncher, as his records shows. And you, yourself, are unbeaten at 41. What’s the chance of this one going the distance?
RICKY HATTON: I mean, well, the way we fight you would like to think it, you probably think it wouldn’t go the distance. We’re both big punchers. We both go forward. We both go for the knockout. So in most cases you would expect it not to go the distance, but Urango and the fact that I’ve seen him. He’s very thick set, big shoulders, big neck and he looks like he can take a good punch, and likewise against (inaudible) certainly more so than any against (inaudible) is probably the most lethal puncher pound for pound. He didn’t move me a great deal. So what we have we’re both built to take the punch as well. So it won’t be – it could be a knockout. There’s every chance it might not go the distance, but because we have been built to take a punch, we’re short, stocky, good mix, good shoulders there’s every chance there could be a 12 round war. I do believe that I’m a lot more polished than Juan Urango, footwork, speed, boxing ability. Last few fights I’ve not been able to show that because style make fights. Maybe I’ll get a little bit more chance to show it in this fight. But one things for certain, I’ll begetting it on the front foot not on the back foot because that’s what people have become expecting from me and Juan’s exciting style. And I’m not going to change it. But I’ve just got to be a little bit more polished I think. I give Urango all the respect he deserves.
PAT SHEEHAN: And what lessons, if any, can you take from Colazzo into the ring? Because this time after that fight that you were pretty surprised what difference, the weight difference did it make even though it was only half a stone?
RICKY HATTON: Yeah, I mean obviously I’m back down to junior welterweight and I believe categorically that nobody at 140 pounds is as strong as me but that doesn’t mean that I’ve go to go in there and knock everyone out. The last fight was my first on HBO and me first fight topping the bill in the United States and obviously my main aim it to always go out there and put a show on for the fans. Maybe it did put a little bit more pressure on me shoulders to perform. But when you get top bill in Las Vegas, and when we get excited at the fact of putting on a big show in the boxing capital of the world, you know, probably the last fight was preparation for that. So I’ll want to go out there and put on a good performance and an exciting show. You know not to get too overwhelmed by the occasion. Don’t let the occasion get to me. The last fight in Boston was a good preparation for this one I feel.
PAT SHEEHAN: If I could ask Juan a question now. What will it mean to you to become the first fighter to defeat Ricky Hatton?
JUAN URANGO: (Translation) It’s not just about boxing and beating Ricky Hatton, it’s about giving God the glory and thanking him for giving me everything I have. And to for the whole world to know who I am and to gain everybody’s respect and all the fans so they know that he’s here to stay and win.
PAT SHEEHAN: How would he win the fight? What is his game plan?
JUAN URANGO: (Translation) I’ve had a great training camp. It’s not about what people say or whatever I say, it’s about what God wants. And if the knockout comes, the knockout comes. And I am ready, I am 100 percent and I’m coming to fight; coming to win.
TRAE THOMPSON, FT. WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM: Ricky you were speaking earlier just about the American fans wanted to see the real Ricky Hatton. What would that mean for you to become a household name here in the United States?
RICKY HATTON: Oh, that’s my next goal really. I mean over in Great Britain and the UK I don’t think (inaudible) any popular but I want to be one of the few people, few fighters from Great Britain that have come over to the United States and have been as successful over here as he has been back home. And I think I started off the right way. Came over here, took the world welterweight title from Luis Collazo and then I hope to get the junior welterweight title from Juan Urango. I mean that’s (inaudible) and hopefully collecting two world titles in two weight divisions. So I’m going the right way about everything. The last fight was a wonderful fight to watch. If you were a boxing fan you’d have loved the Colazzo fight. And stars make fights, Juan Urango doesn’t take a backwards step, I don’t take a backwards step, we’re both going to go for the knockout. So I mean I think this one could be exciting. So it’s a great, great fight and I’m jumping out of me skin, I just can’t wait.
TRAE THOMPSON: Just a quick follow-up too. I mean the American fans really, they’ve been captivated by two big fighters, Oscar and Mike Tyson. Do you think that you possess some more qualities they have and why do you think they’ve been the only ones who’ve been larger than life just here in America?
RICKY HATTON: Well Mike Tyson just has a lot about him. You’d probably pay money to watch Mike Tyson to just step in the ring. He’s so menacing and so frightening at that time and then more often than not the performance always match. Then Oscar de la Hoya you’ve got a complete contrast really. I mean, you got this soft Welsh built, well built type fellow that doesn’t have a bad thing to say about anybody. He says the right things, he respects all his opponents and that’s what people like to see. They like to see a good family man, they like to see a good feet firmly on the ground, which is the reputation that Oscar has in the United States. He has the reputation that I have in England. I know somewhat with Tyson you don’t really know what’s going to happen next do you? He has his fellows side to him and then the gentle side also to him at times. When he’s fighting he’s so ferocious. He’s just got that little bit, I don’t know, what’s the word I’m looking for, magic star dust around him that all the champions. You can’t put your finger on it; you just tend to love it.
GARETH DAVIES, DAILY TELEGRAPH (UK): Ricky can I ask you, you were talking about Campbell just now, what do you, not obviously yourself and nephew have gone into professional boxing, when you were speaking about your son, I think it’s fantastic that you present him with a belts when you come home with your belts, would you not to like see your son go into boxing. I know you’ve got a history of football in your family. I mean did you play a lot of football as a junior. Would you prefer him not to box when he grows up?
RICKY HATTON: I think I would prefer him not to box. And that takes a lot of hard doing how well, how good boxing has been for me. If he wanted to go into boxing then I would have every confidence in giving him a backing because his talents and ability to say the least. It’s the greatest sport in the world; one on one combat. Yeah, it gives me a fantastic life, met some wonderful people, and some wonderful places, Las Vegas being one of them to top the bill. So it would be hard to say to Campbell, “Listen, I don’t want you to do that.” Knowing how much joy and satisfaction is there that (inaudible) give me, but no father wants to see their son get punched. It baffles me at times how my mom and dad put up with it. At ring side every fight. It’s very strange how they actually, how they (inaudible) go through it because it’s hard enough for the. I feel nervous when my brother Matthew fights let alone watching Campbell I think would be quite a frightening experience. But I mean I think every good parent should give it over this on the backing and get behind them whatever they want to do. But having him playing football for Manchester City or something like that I’d much rather see him do that. But no, I mean, boxing been so good to me and if wants to do It I could not stop him. He would have 100 percent backing from me. It’s a wonderful sport. The problem is it made me give me the life it give me, I think it’s made me the person I am today.
GARETH DAVIES: Finally Ricky, the 3000 British fans traveling over. There wasn’t by any chance one coming over by the name of Johnny Vegas who’s going to lead you into the ring singing Show Me the Way to Amarillo is there?
RICKY HATTON: I don’t think. I don’t know who’s Johnny Vegas.
GARETH DAVIES: (Inaudible) as well isn’t he? So
RICKY HATTON: Yeah, it would be, it would be fitting wouldn’t it? I mean you know from the first time in Vegas, Johnny Vegas leading me out. In fact I think Las Vegas is larger than life and Johnny’s not far behind it is it, to be honest? It would be about. No, I mean, it’s every fighters dream to top the bill in Las Vegas. I want to think, the majority of them are very close and they’ve been saving up for Las Vegas for the last maybe three or four years. Obviously they haven’t got much money. They come from (inaudible) and stuff like that. So it’s a big moment for me, it’s a bit moment for them as well because it’s not often you get one of your mates topping the bill in Las Vegas. So it’s been a long time coming for me, my fans, my family and hopefully I’ll do them proud.
GARETH DAVIES: Could I just ask one quick question. Several people have asked in different guises over the last hour how Juan is going to beat Ricky. Can I ask a plain, simple question? What does Juan Urango see as the weaknesses in Ricky Hatton that he will have to exploit in order to beat him a week on Saturday? Could you answer the question directly please?
JUAN URANGO: (Translation) I respect Mr. Hatton greatly. I think that he is a great boxer. I have observed Mr. Hatton as being one boxer who likes to jump around a lot in the ring and that I will attack all aspects of Mr. Hatton’s body and launch an attack in that fashion.
DAN RAFAEL: Hey Ricky, I have a quick one for you here. You mentioned a little bit earlier about the sacrifices that you made including being away from your son on his birthday. I’m wondering can you talk about what it’s like to have to train over Christmas. I know you are a big family man and enjoy the holidays and enjoy the parties, it’s got to be tough to train at that time, to give that sort of thing up. Was it for you?
RICKY HATTON: Yeah it was tough. But when I look at the incentives that is there for me, you know, topping the bill in Las Vegas and coming from that (inaudible) title into a regular (inaudible) be challenging for and hopefully winning a bit of world title. So it’s a massive insight fight for me. So yeah, but needless to say Christmas was very, very hard for me. I love my pudding and I love a party and I love a good time. So, yeah, my son’s is six years of age today so it’s, every Christmas is special for family. My son’s at a very good age now to enjoy Christmas so I was really sad to miss this Christmas out. But yeah, it’s just another incentive to come out and do a job. I was sparring Christmas day. I was sparring New Year’s day, which some of you that know me, at Christmas time wouldn’t be on my Father Christmas list by any stretch of the imagination. But no, I mean, this is what we do. Nobody loves a celebration and a party and certainly Christmas as much as me.
DAN RAFAEL: Can you ask Juan the same question about what it’s like to sacrifice to train over the holidays, a time when most people want to kick back and spend it with their families, eating good food and go to a party or two. But he’s getting ready for a big fight?
JUAN URANGO (Translation): It’s a huge sacrifice, especially during the holidays not being with the family. But my making the sacrifice ultimately is to better my family and my children. I have quite a few children and I makes this sacrifice on their behalf. So that for me it was just another day, Christmas day, but we’ll celebrate Christmas and New Years when I return to my family after the fight.
DAN RAFAEL: How many children do you have?
JUAN URANGO (Translation): I have six children.
EDDIE GOLDMAN, SECONDSOUT RADIO: Ricky there’s been a lot of talk on this call about Mayweather, Cotto, and Castillo and moving up to welterweight in titles and all this, and of course fighting in America and exposure on HBO and all that kind of stuff. How are you avoiding overlooking Juan Urango because obviously he’s the guy you’re going to be going up against one on one on January 20th?
RICKY HATTON: Yeah, well that’s the case, that’s always the case when you have a fight. Everybody’s talking about the future. But you just keep focused on the fight in front of you. Because it’s one thing you know talking about fighting Mayweather and Collazo and Castillo and people like that. If I lose to Juan Urango on the 20th of January then I won’t be fighting any of them. And that’s quite as simple as that really. So it’s very quite easy to keep your focus. You’ve got to try and use it to your advantage as well. You’ve got years of inspiration to try and get through this fight because you know that somebody’s home watching on the line. But obviously you’ve got to be focused on Juan, because he’s the one that matters. Because if you lose this one you lose the rest of them so it’s quite easy to lose your focus. Particularly the British side who are coming over from Britain to tote in the United States and in Las Vegas for the first time. That’s incentive in itself. And that means I’ve got to beat him, he’s the world champion. I mean if you can’t get motivated, you can’t get yourself up for something like that then you’re a poor champion.
EDDIE GOLDMAN: Do you see his last fight with Ben Rabeh? Because Juan won the decision but there was a lot of controversy that day.
RICKY HATTON: Yeah, I mean I’ve watched the tape of it and of the fight and people were, you know, after watching the fight. People like Eli Spokes who were (inaudible) on the night and watched the fight live in person felt that the fight Urango won. And then everybody who’s watched the tape tends to think that he lost the fight. To be first very honest with you, it depends what style you go for from a (inaudible) point of view. He prefers to come forward and all that. I think that fight shows that one can be out boxed a little bit. Having said that that’s not necessarily my game really so, but I believe (inaudible) tacky and will very well show that. I’ve got a lot more in me armor than just to come forward, attacking body puncher, the pressure fighter that I am. I’ve got a lot, lot more to me game and watching the last fight of Ben Rabeh against Juan Urango showed that he’s a very, very good fighter. But also it showed that stuff in my game that I could use in my game that can win this fight for me.
EDDIE GOLDMAN: I want to ask Juan a similar question. Ricky’s fight with Luis Collazo, Ricky of course got the victory but there was a lot of controversy about that. Is there anything that you saw from that fight that you think you could use to your advantage when you fight him on the 20th?
JUAN URANGO (Translation): The Collazo style and Mr. Hatton styles are quite different. Mr. Collazo is more of a boxer that fights from the outside and very similar to his fight where people were viewing it and maybe saw an awkward fight on television that he’s sure Mr. Hatton did an excellent performance deserving of the victory and that Collazo’s a different fighter. And what he saw there was that unlike Collazo, he’s not a Collazo-type fighter and that his style is different and that he didn’t see anything that’s really helpful because it’s two totally different fights and different styles.
EDDIE GOLDMAN: Does Juan think that he might be overlooked in all this talk in moving up to welterweight and Mayweather and Cotto and all that?
JUAN URANGO (Translation): I respect the fighters that have been mentioned. They’ve been fighters that I have looked at as my peers and I feel that my day on January the 20th is the day that regardless of win or lose I’ll show (inaudible) and show people in the world that I am of the same caliber and one day very much as people are talking about people moving up to 147, that’s something that’s totally possible for me as well. I’m not upset that people are talking about other fights. I understand that there’s the sport of boxing and the business of boxing and I am involved in the sport of boxing and when there’s conversations about big fights that’s the business of boxing and I don’t get involved in that aspect of the business. I’m more involved with the sport of it and making sure that I can be a great champion and one day I may rise to the ranks of 147 pounds myself. And I think I could accomplish that.
EDDIE GOLDMAN: Last thing first to Ricky and then Juan. Would you like to make a prediction for this fight?
RICKY HATTON: No, I don’t make predictions. Funny enough I haven’t made a prediction my whole career. There are enough pressures on fighters’ shoulders to go out there and perform and you don’t worsen it by making a prediction. Every fighter is different but that’s just me. But Ricky Hatton if fights the way Ricky Hatton can and the way I expect to and put into practice the way the training camp’s gone, going into the ring on January 20, I believe there’s only one winner. And that’s going to be me. But I’m not going to turn around and say I’m going to win by a knockout or it’s going to be points or it’s going to be. I just think it’s going to be a hugely exciting fight against two warriors, two good fighters. We wear the hats and the sleeves and give no quarter. Style wise you know we’re both exciting to watch. It will be a fantastic fight and there ultimately there’ll be one champion at the end of it but we’ll both come out of winners because of the type of fight I think it will be.
JUAN URANGO (Translation): I agree with Mr. Hatton. I respect the sport. I wouldn’t want to make a prediction. When two men get into a ring anything can happen and it’d be almost disgraceful to stand here and say that he could predict the future. But you know of course I disagree that with Mr. Hatton’s statement that he’s going to win. I feel that I will win. But that’s the reaction that anyone will have. I want to put on a great show for all the fans and all folks around the world and in Britain that are looking at two warriors who are going to go out there show the world what they both have and there’ll be one victor. I think it will be me, of course. That’s what I have been training for, making efforts for, and making sacrifices. But at the end of the day, we’ll know after sometime after 8 p.m. on January the 20th.
SCOTT FYFE, SUNDAY POST (Scotland): I wanted to ask you about the Collazo fight and the sort of background stuff going on at that time with your former promoter; was it a thing that was kind of at the back of your mind or what kind of effect did it have in the buildup to that fight?
RICKY HATTON: It wasn’t ideal obviously. If you remember after three weeks out with training because I went to
SCOTT FYFE: Court case, yeah.
RICKY HATTON: To court case in America to contest the court case with Souleymane Mbaye, which eventually got thrown out. That was right in the thick of me training camp. Then Lazcano pulled out in just (inaudible) in the seven week period I have to move up to welterweight. And for the champion straight away and Luis Collazo good fighter and a slick tricky southpaw. Yeah, the ongoing court thing with Frank Warren which has now been, was (inaudible) against (inaudible) is still in me gut. And my father unfortunately is still. So that’s as far as me moving on with my career it’s damn site better than it was obviously because we’re done, dropping his court case. But he’s still suing me father and if you’re suing me father you might as well be suing me as well. We are a very, very close family. But it wasn’t ideal. Your first fight, top of the bill in America; there was a change in opponent. There was the things with my friend falling off a motor going on. Just all things considered it wasn’t the best of preparation but it would be very disrespectful for me as a fighter to take that away from the Collazo. He’s a very underrated fighter and obviously I think he needs to fight Shane Mosley. Because Shane Mosley and (inaudible) weeks which he told me at the time he was the best kept secret in American boxing and that performance against me showed that and obviously on that performance he’s got a fight against Shane Mosley which he certainly gave over all winnings. So, but yeah, things like that you can obviously do it. The buildup has been a whole lot better for this fight. Let’s put it that way. I mean it couldn’t get much worse to be honest.
SCOTT FYFE: You sound that you’re happy to see Collazo get that reward if you like for the performance he put up against you.
RICKY HATTON: Yeah, because he’s good fighter. And he can fight where, before the Collazo fight everybody was talking it was already a foregone conclusion for the Brits. I watched the fight and I was getting feedback from my, you know the people over in America that will be me back in this and they’re saying that “Ricky this, he’s one of the best kept secrets, he’s a real good fighter. You know don’t listen to all this stuff what people are saying about him. You’re going to have your hands full.” And that’s obviously what it proved really. So I mean what with the performance that he put on was a performance that everyone said he was capable of in the first place really. And it disappoints me a little bit that people are saying, it’s a lot like going down the same lanes with Juan Urango. Because unlike Collazo, he’s not, when you think of a point everybody tends to know that Mayweathers and the Collazos and the Castillos and the people like that. Just beat these guys that you don’t know of every bit as dangerous and Collazo proved that and I’m sure Urango will prove that. Unbeatable champion, big puncher, so yeah, it’s nice to see Collazo get his chance and it’s a fight he’s well capable of winning against Shane Mosley and obviously if he was to win it would be a huge plus for me and my performance in a lot better perspective. But at the end of the day I’m a junior welterweight and Shane Mosley is a junior middleweight moving down. So there’s a big difference in size there. So that could be the big key in the fight but certainly a fight Collazo is really capable of winning.
SCOTT FYFE: Final question, you’re a very honest man. You always have been. Hand and heart could imagine a situation like we’re in at the moment, okay, possibly only temporarily where you with a world title belt in the division and Junior Witter has one, unifying the title?
RICKY HATTON: Not really. I’m signed for a three fight deal with HBO and the way Junior has performed, he’s light years away from getting one of them deals. Even though we may have a belt in the same division in the big picture it doesn’t mean diddly really. You need to perform (inaudible) rather than. The fact that he’s got a belt he can always turn around and say that he’s a world champion. It’s a lifelong ambition he achieved and good luck to him. But again from my point of view from getting the fight on HBO, I haven’t really bothered about the belts. I’m more bothered about who I fight. I want the biggest names.