The point of this weekend’s exercise is threefold: First, to acquire for Ricky Hatton a title he can live with; second, to grease the skids for a fight between Hatton and Castillo; and third, to facilitate a makeover of Hatton’s American image by eradicating the residual stench of his HBO debut against Luis Collazo in Boston last year.

Turns out the former middleweight champion known as ‘Lights Out’ wasn’t even the only weight-challenged James Toney fighting on Don King’s Saturday night card at the Seminole Hard Rock.

Trained by Sean Fitzgerald, the promising 27-year-old Worcester junior middleweight was the 2004 New England Golden Gloves champion, and had recently been working as a sparring partner for WBA champion Jose Rivera while pursuing his own career.