wtf did Kostya Tszyu do to get into the HOF ????

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  1. Casamayor122

    Casamayor122 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Come on list his best opponents. Even his biggest win, Meldrick Taylor, was controversial.
     
  2. freddy-wak

    freddy-wak M O D E R A T O R Full Member

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    are you seriously questioning me on chavez's career :rofl:rofl

    gtfo
    i try to stay away from chavez threads because he's one of the most underrated fighters ever....pisses me off the lack of respect shown towards him
     
  3. doomeddisciple

    doomeddisciple Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    So you just make other thread disrespecting other great fighters.

    Two wrongs don't make a right Freddy.
     
  4. Casamayor122

    Casamayor122 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    That's pretty weak...
     
  5. freddy-wak

    freddy-wak M O D E R A T O R Full Member

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    tell me about it....
     
  6. doomeddisciple

    doomeddisciple Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Well you started a thread that was full of **** and now people are dragging - Unfairly - the great JCC's name down into the mud too.

    But then again you reap what you sow.
     
  7. freddy-wak

    freddy-wak M O D E R A T O R Full Member

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    they drag his name into the mudd cause they wouldn't know a quality fighter if he hit them in the liver...
     
  8. RealBoxing

    RealBoxing Kill The Nonsense Full Member

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    :yep:yep:yep
     
  9. Vysotsky

    Vysotsky Boxing Junkie banned

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    Through the first half of his career he fought rather similar to his amateur days. People always label him as having average handspeed and being a slow starter that is rather easy to hit.

    In the middle to late in his career that's how he was most of the time but for the first part it was the complete opposite, very good handspeed, very fast starter and was virtually untouchable when he wanted to be. At some point he realized he had a very sturdy chin and i really think he just stopped giving a **** about being hit, knowing he could walk through a shot and land his, having complete faith in his power.

    I also think the people around him didn't help. I really don't like Johnny Lewis, he's a good conditioning guy but as an actual trainer he hurt Tszyu alot in my opinion.
     
  10. Casamayor122

    Casamayor122 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Mexican cab drivers still speak his name in hushed tones. :good
     
  11. sweet_scientist

    sweet_scientist Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Replace Whitaker with Ivan Calderon, Duran with Michael Katsidis and Jones Jr. with Jean Pascal and I might take your list seriously.
     
  12. sweet_scientist

    sweet_scientist Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    The following fighters are better than anyone Tszyu ever beat at the stage he beat them:

    Meldrick Taylor (first fight)
    Jose Luis Ramirez
    Edwin Rosario
    Rocky Lockridge
    Roger Mayweather (second fight)
    Frankie Randall (dodgy win, admitted)

    Even if you take these names off Chavez's record, I bet his resume can still stand up to Kostya's in terms of quality:

    Hector Camacho
    Greg Haugen
    Juan Laporte
    Roger Mayweather (first fight)
    Mario Martinez
    Lonnie Smith
    Tony Lopez
    Ruben Castillo
    Rafael Limon (hey, you'd include Tszyu's win over Chavez right? Why not throw in a corpse?)
    Terrence Alli
    Sammy Fuentes
    Meldrick Taylor (second time round)
    Rodolfo Aguilar
    Giovanni Parisi

    Is Tszyu's resume really any better than that?

    If you bother to put in guys like Roger Mayweather, Calvin Grove, Juan Laporte for Tszyu, I'll just throw in another Frankie Randall or Ivan Robinson win your way.

    If you want to include a Jan Bergman or Hugo Pineda, I'll throw about 10 flashy recorded fighters (who hadn't beaten anyone) your way that Chavez disposed off.
     
  13. BoppaZoo

    BoppaZoo Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Yeah but you think Its Kostya's fault he was avoided by when they had such fighters in his division as

    Oscar Dela Hoya at one stage
    Miguel Cotto
    Floyd Mayweather
    Arturo Gatti

    You think Kostya didnt want those fights i mean he took a Fight with Ricky Hatton in England because Floyd was doing his thing and Cotto and his management felt Miguel was no were near ready to face Tszyu.

    Tszyu would take all those fights in a ****ing heart beat.

    You Know we Know but still you raise ****ing questions and its not Tszyu's fault he injured his Powerful right shoulder during his Prime and missed two years.

    FFS some people in here are ****ing just plain DUMB.

    I remeber Kostya saying he wants big fights only big fights but Showtime and HBO would not come together which is another reason.

    Do people forget really how much or how little they know about the sport.

    ****ing Trolls.

    And for Freddy who i class as a fair and stable Family man that i enjoy talking to has lost the plot on this one even his best Bro Kirk wouldnt agree with Freddy on this one what does that tell you.
     
  14. BoppaZoo

    BoppaZoo Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Hey and guys still not one person when i gave full blown break down of kostya tszyu's career compared to aaron pryors i still have not had one come back or one debate and yet still people feel pryor is a lock in the hall of fame so why the **** not tszyu.





    Still waiting for evidence on why pryor resume is better oh thats right its not so thats why i didnt get a response.


    ****ing amateur hour in this thread.
     
  15. Boom_Boom

    Boom_Boom R.I.P Boxing 6/9/12 Full Member

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    Anyone else but me believe prime 4 prime Tszyu beats Chavez and in a convincing matter too, likely Ko? :think

    I dont buy the myth that Chavez has an undentable chin above 135 just cause he took flush shots from Rosario at 135. :bart