Kostya was shot

It's three years ago. Sh*t, I was on my honeymoon when I watched that fight, and I'm divorced now! Get over it...

 

Which fight did you notice that he was shot? There is only one answer to that, and it is "the one he lost to Englishman Hatton in".

 

he got paid £2,500,000 BY Frank Warren to come over to Manchester to give up his title

if Tyzu had any further ambtions in boxing he would have not gone to the lions den to fight

he went there to pick up his pension cheque so he could have a happy retirement

 

Not shot, but not far off would be my analysis of Tszyu that night.

2 and a half years inactivity when you are mid 30's and only a couple of rounds against a china chin don't help.

 

kostay wasnt allowed to fight his fight, hatton would never give kostay room to fire those bombs of his,if there had been a neutral ref hatton could have been hurt by some of those powerful streight right hands

 

Great thread Betty!!:good All the signs were there and it was such and easy call, this forum must be full of people who cleaned up at bookies betting on Hatton at 3/1?

 

Was he knocking them all out?

 

Yes, but thats a bad thing. Right?

 

Yes, let's talk about that...you are a world expert in the field afterall.

What was your prediction before the fight again?

 

Go and watch some boxing.

The reason why Tszyu had only boxed 12 rounds in the past decade was because he was hammering everybody :deal

OK - not the peak version, but was certainly a better version of himself than the version of Mosley that lost a close one to Cotto.

 

I'll treat that first remark with contempt it deserves coming from you.

Zab is still competitive in a very strong welterweight division 7 years after Zoo flattened him in 2 rounds, Zab was undefeated at the time and Americas "next big thing".

In the first Mitchell fight Zoo in 2001 had stopped is man on an injury (knee??) in the 7th round, 3 years later in the fight before Hatton he flattened Mitchell in 3. The form at a shot fighter?

 

That win over Mitchell doesn't actually tell us a great deal about anything, other than Tszyu still had timing and power - which is obvious.

You can get away with that against a glass jawed Mitchell, he didn't need to show us any other facets of his game during what was a TWO and a HALF YEAR lay off.