Anyone who thinks that version of Tszyu was anywhere near his prime is just plain ******ed, no other explanation for it. On top of that, enough of the "The Tszyu version of Hatton would beat Pacman" , Hatton has never changed his style and was exactly the same ol' Hatton that he is now. I do think Hatton's punch resistance has dropped some, but Pacman would have still demolished any version of Hatton... it could have just taken a bit longer. Anyone who follows boxing or even just the career of Kotsya Tszyu would easily be aware of the fact that Tszyu was not himself... and still fought well, just couldn't handle the mauling and grappling that was going on. That is all! :hi:
One of the most disgusting and frustrating fight I've ever seen. Hatton was allowed to do whatever he wanted that night and the referee would do nothing. There were moments during the fight where after one of the MANY hugfests which involved headbutts, elbows, shoving, rabbit punches, punches to the back of the head that Hatton would LITERALLY look at the referee like he's saying "I'm done, seperate already!". It's funny because despite all these tactics he applied the fight was still a close one.
Utter rubbish, a great performance by Hatton took Tszyu from his gameplan an retired him,end of story.
Give credit where its due you bunch of ******s. Hatton as a huge underdog for this fight and made Tzsyu fight his fight.
Scar is correct. Hatton was losing that fight, the low blow allowed Hatton to turn it around, he wasn't even penalised. Parris is a disgrace to the sport.
Which is what? An illegal match? Involving unlimited holding and hitting, rabbit punching, elbows etc etc ? Prime Tzysu in a neutral arena DESTROYS Hatton, I stand by that statement.
That low blow was intentional and a retaliation to an unintentional low blow from Tszyu. Of course you don't see any talking about it and the referee didn't even warn him, an intentional low blow like that should AT LEAST see him get two points deducted if not a DQ. The fat piece of garbage of a referee didn't even warn Hatton.
KT low blowed first. Talk about it all you want but it was highly effective, when Hopkins does it its becuse he a 'genius' and a master 'master' bull****, Tzsyu had problems with that style before and Hatton implemented it perfectly.
You ought to be ashamed of yourself even showing up to defend the garbage they allowed Hatton to get away with that night, especially when your location says England. Tszyu applying the same tactics is only a desperate retaliation after clearly noticing the referee isn't doing anything about it and won't. You might want to look at who started these tactics first. Tszyu is an outside fighter and was never known to be a dirty fighter in the ring and his record proves it. Hatton's record is the complete opposite. Hell, people were complaining Hatton isn't being allowed to apply the same disgraceful tactics against Mayweather and his fans, who prove to be a bunch of *******s, backed that up completely with pride.
What a great original thread :-( I know lets dissect every fight from Bernard Hopkins career, how dare he win that way!!
Hatton implemented it perfectly?, people like you need to be thrown out of the window. Hatton implemented a cheating tactic, that wasn't aggression it was mauling, shoving and wrestling. Whoever backs that up is instantly a ******* who needs to be hooked from the balls and thrown out the window. KT's lowblow was unintentional dumbass, Hatton's was CLEARLY intentional.
Hopkins at least got warned and applied sneaky tactics. Hatton was applying these tactics in the referees face without getting a single warning all night.
Don't know what you're laughing about, Tszyu hit him on the upperpart of the waistband, Hatton whacked him right in the groin intentionally. Hatton's a very dirty fighter.