Martin Murray post fight.!!

Lockett was a nervous wreck going into the Pavlik fight. I remember the build up to that fight very well. The poor chap was being constantly told and reminded that he stood no chance, that it was mission impossible. I even remember a reporter basically telling him the same to his face during an interview. The poor guy was mentally beaten long before he arrived in the US, IMO, not that I think he would've beaten Pavlik or anything had he actually believed in himself.

Also, for those who mock him for his performance against Pavlik. I remember his first fight against a chap named Yuri Tsarenka (he was the first person to beat Lockett as a pro). Lockett took a horrendous pounding in that one and his face was in a terrible state for much of it. He looked like a cross between a church gargoyle and someone who'd been stamped on by an angry moose. Both eyes were badly swollen and he ended up needing 40 stitches after the fight. But despite taking a brutal shellacking and having to contend with fighting through the pain of a broken knuckle and terrible facial injuries, he took his beating like a man and at no point did he try to look for a way out of it.

There's a small pic on of his battered visage on this site but that doesn't do it justice because he'd been cleaned up a little by that point.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/boxing/5113210.stm