he said something along the lines that all Hatton needed to do was hit Khan once and the fight is over.
I'm not sold on Hart as a journalist but, considering the blog post on Sky Sports about Mayweather Sr being the reason Ricky lost, I can't imagine they took Hart's comments too well. I refused to watch the Sky stream - what was the commentary like in the 5m 35 seconds the fight lasted? Biased, ignorant, spot-on?
Barrera was still good enough to give JMM hell and Morales held David Diaz close and, in some's opinion, was unlucky not to pick up the title. That suggests on the slide but certainly not shot. Tyszu, on the other hand, had been injured, inactive and hasn't fought since - we can't define how good Ricky was that night because we can't compare how Kostya performed following the fight. Barrera was still competitive against the top guys losing to JMM and Pacquaio before the Khan farce. If you can't understand that, then you have no business discussing it with me.
Hilarious, Jim Watt was going absolutely beserk at Ricky I thought he was going to have a heart attack, but it was mostly spot-on I felt. Apart from Darke's first words after the opening bell "Can Hatton do it? Can he become pound-for-pound champion for Britain?"
So how exactly did Pac ruin Barrera if he gave JMM hell? And prime Morales would have killed Dave Diaz - Diaz was the true definition of a paper champion Im not too sure of your point. But i'll say as far as MAB goes, Pacs first win over him is Pacs best win of all. As far as Morales goes, everytime he fought pac, he was pasts his prime. He still just had enough to beat him first time around. Its an old arguement - check out the archives, cause i cant be arsed dragging it up again
After about 2mins Darke said Ricky had made a good start. After about 2mins 10 secs Watt said that Ricky had beeen caught everytime he goes forward. It was contradiction after contradiction.
My point was IF Barrera and Morales were shot and therefore those victories were less impressive, they looked really shot AFTER Manny had beaten them. Going in they were still resembling themselves but on the slide. That they still gave good performances says a lot about their talents. We can't say that about Tyszu cause he never fought again. That was a response/addition to: Shot's a way of dismissing a victory and, a lot of the time, people don't bother to analyse what "shot" actually is and look at a fighters performances to assess whether they are.