Watch this clip. These two are real gents - B-hop and the likes could learn from this. [YT]<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/hsTlbR_VPvA&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/hsTlbR_VPvA&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>[/YT] Its perfectly fine with me to promote a fight by being an ass, but after a fight one should just respect the other and stop the bull****.
Couldnt agree more, it said alot about hopkins when he couldnt admit defeat from calzaghe. When cotto beat mosley which i thought was closer, mosley acted with class like the man he is. The class always shows. Thats why i think the way hopkins acted after he lost to calzaghe showed that he has no class.
They were way too pally for my liking, and I didn't like the way Kessler seemed somewhat in ore of Calzaghe/the occasion. Particularly during and immediately after the fight. I felt there was a serious edge missing. Kessler falling over to hug Calzaghe, didnt do it for me.
Perfect, two gentlemen showing their class as men as they then showed as fighters in the ring. Quality.
Kessler wasn't exactly full of praise, criticizing joe for holding and hitting, which he also did his interview at ring side after the fight. Still, none of the 'I won, the crowd knew I won...' kind of bs that a lot of fighters spew
I didn't hear the post interview, read loads of heaped on praise prior to the fight though. I could be wrong on this - as I've only seen the last rounds of the fight once or twice. If memory serves right I remember Kessler falling over himself to hug Joe at the end. At the time I was thinking: this guy has just lost the fight of his life and the first thing he is trying to do is jump all over his opponent. If it had been some kind of total War I could forgive it - but the fight was pretty tame (relatively). I think that action said a lot about the mindset of the two (I doubt Joe would have replicated the act, if the ball was on the other foot). As I said though I could be very wrong on that, but that is how I read it at the time. I willing to hold my hands up and say that it may be wrong - but thats how I vaguely remember it.
Two excellent ambassadors of the sport. So to where Tszyu and Hatton. Also any Wladimir Klitschko fight promotion, true gentleman.
It took Mosley 5 times to be gracious in defeat. And then there's the fact that he used steroids. His "class" is overrated.
He is, if a guy had got in my face like Haye did to him i would have exploded. But because Haye knew Wlad was a gentleman he knew he could get away with it. For example replace Wlad with Tyson. Could you now envision Haye approaching him in that way? Anyways Wlad is a great ambassador for the sport and i enjoy watching the guy fight. Although his last two have been stinkers.
Very true. He reminds me of "Gentleman" Glen Johnson, who according to himself has only ever lost to Beranrd Hopkins the other billion defeats where robberiesatsch
I've never really that much of what Johnson says about previous defeats. I did find it slightly humorous when he called Roy Jones a girl. The Mosley thing, it just shows you the awful memory (or lack of knowledge) that boxing fans have, when he was gracious after losing to Cotto and all these people on the board were like "oh Mosley is such a gracious sportsman and blah blah blah, he doesn't make excuses". Yes, I know it's hard to remember that bygone era of 2004 when he had last lost a fight.