Kostya is a legend, despite Australia not being his birthplace he treated it with huge respect. Keeping his world class fights in working class cities here aswell as the guaranteed sell outs in metro cities, my first ever boxing match, Kostya Tszyu - Roger Mayweather.
Lazacano beat Stevie Johnston too and pushed Castillo all the way, guess they must have been **** :nut This argument has gone on for about 4-5pages and it is exagerated, as if what an opponent does 2years later, 2divisions up really devalues a win. As it is Judah arguably lost to Corley and Pineda after that, so your point is moot Although imo the Judah win is better, the other 2 wins are good, as are the Bungu and Kelly wins, there isn't a shedload in it. So in a way you're both right
Of course the Judah win is much better. The only person who seems to think there's even a debate about that is that other chap. He's been wrong since about page one or two, but if the chump wants to keep boring us with his stupidity, he can do.
FYI, my mention of Lazcano wasn't because I think he's a bad fighter, it's because he was the ONLY top 10 fighter Vazquez ever fought after Hamed, and he got TKO'd.
Kitty,for you to educate anybody,you would need a certain degree of knowledge in a topic to actually do so.As this thread has proved,you have none.That's why you've backed away from your initial attempt at putting up an argument,and that's why've reverted back to repeating yourself. I ain't mad at cha,though,Kitty.As already noted,you've remained a great source of amusement for me throughout with your crazy,wacky antics in this thread. Kitty hasn't seen anything of Zab Judah besides his biggest fights,so referencing one of his more obscure fights - a fight in which he was outworked by a near 40 year old man - isn't going to mean a whole lot to him,unfortunately. Looking up on boxrec,checking out a boxer's age and his record - yeah,Kitty can sure do that.
Well if unifying, ruling over and clearing out a division is a paper achievement that doesn't stand up to your scrutiny then fair enough.
Where was that at? I think my old man went to his bout with Hugo Pinada @ Parra. Got some signed gloves that I have to frame. One of Australia's best, real nice bloke too.
I tend to look at KT as a borderline great fighter and i think he is overrated on ESB>. However he is more desrving than some other guys that are in and although i said hes borderline he still gets the nod as a great fighter.
No way is he first ballot...thats a bit of a head scratcher. But the IBHOF twists the criteria to suit themselves and have so for years..His record alone isnt enough to get him IMO, at least not first ballot. But obviously they are taking other things into account, like his impact & popularity in Australia and Russia etc. I don't agree with it myself but as others have mentioned they have let guys in who are probably even less deserving than KT.
Yes he deserves to be in the Hall of Fame. An argument can be made for Kostya Tszyu being the best ever at 140.
Not in my opinion. A clear stylstic disadvantage rules him out in a good few head to head match ups the way I see it.
There's not much else to do other than repeat yourself when you're so very evidently right and someone else is so very evidently wrong. Perhaps if I continue to do so, eventually it will sink in to your rather thick skull. And I'm very much still hoping that someone with a little more patience can make you understand this very simple point that you have been ducking for pages now: Tszyu-Judah > Hamed-Vazquez, imbecile.