As a fan of Manny Pacquaio since he beat Barrera seven years ago, I find you an embarrassment to the forum, the Philippines, and the human race.
PacMan is one of the greatest of all time, and there's solid justification for referring to the likes of Kostya, Hatton & Zab as champions. Judah was a huge scalp for Kostya at the time and he's still winning titles 10 years later. Kostya was the first fighter in the division to unify the titles in decades - how can you overrate someone with those credentials?
Wasn't the Philips bout also at the time when Kostya had the fallout with Bill Mordey and was attending court hearings involving a multi-million dollar settlement to Mordey?
All I know is that KT was a beast, and it seemed like he just got better and better even when you thought he was out matched he showed improvements, his win over Judah was the ticket... Judah was a very hot fighter at the time. Boxing was at its best during the 90's I am sorry, but the game was so ****ing good we even tuned in to watch our C level fighters.
Spider - Yes exactly. When Kostya came here he had no english at all. He signed a contract and when it reached the end of the contract, Mordey pushed a 2 dollar bill at him and said I own you. It was a horrible time for him profesionally - But KT has always maintained that it was the Phillips loss where he reliased he was not doing the things anymore that made got him to that point in the first place. He renewed his training regimen, he began meticulously analysing his opponents strengths and weaknesses and then went on a tear for 10 fights up to and including the unification bout and 9 of those were KO's.
This is the Reason"KT had issues with his promoter at the time and was forced to pay something like $7mil" The guy didn't train for the fight spending most of his time in court. After interest the figure was 8.35 mil which had to be paid Half by Tzsyu and half by the TV network who induced him to break his contract. The the network then took KT to court to recover there money and Tzsyu sued his lawyers for giving bad advice. Mayweathers Note. The promoters court cost where 1.75 Mill Tzsyu i don't know but would have been a similar number. Court cases can get messy.
he can do it because he's a moron who doesn't know what he's talking about. when he slates hatton, he slates pacs resume. too stupid for words.:deal