If HBO shows such a lack of class again...

[Kev]

I agree; it's life. It is tasteless but so is life in general. Don't like it turn it off. I paid 50$ for a fight and got what looked like a skit from Benny Hill. Ricky said himself that he and Manny were knockout fighters and someone was going to get knocked out......well someone got ktfo and seeing as how it is a brutal sport and people's sensibilities at the time aren't very sensible, than be prepared for the gory extras.

I personally liked seeing Ricky being followed out; I wanted to see if he was walking normal. Better than seeing a stretcher hauling him out. I would have rather seen the camera pointed in the audience than watching Ricky gasping for breath and looking like a fish. If the family didn't want to be seen crying they should have put those Ricky masks on

Now the child thing isn't cool; like what happened with Cotto. But maybe the children shouldn't be there. I am glad Ricky doesn't let his son go to his fights. Kid would have been shaken for life watching that

It is tasteless no doubt; but when you are in the limelight and getting paid that kind of $$$ expect tasteless to follow you around. Since when has $$$ and tactfulness been a couple? I hope when Larry Merchant has a stroke at one of these they film the whole thing live

I don't even find it tasteless, it's just an accurate and complete potryal of the event. If the cameras turn away from looking into the crowd its censorship in my view.

If it would have been Manny knocked out would you object to Hattons family being filmed cheering?

Boxing is a brutal sport, as is life in general. The camera's like Hatton's family were at a PUBLIC event, therefore the camera cans pan where they want.

If they tried to record Ricky or his family in the dressing room against their wishes, then that is something else, but at a public event, especially one where both fighters and by association familes are benefitting by the way of several million pounds then they cannot object (and to my knowledge havn't) to being captured on film in that public event.

I even think the same regarding Cotto's children. The Margarito Cotto fight again was a PUBLIC event where the cameras have every right to film that public event and present as complete a picture of the event as possible.

Again they should not be filmed weeping in the dressing room, that's not public but the arena was completely public and therefore anything that happens in that arena is by definition public and ok for filming.

If you don't want to be pictured grieving at a public massively televised event then don't go.

Sorry for the repetitive emphasis of the same points over and over and the use of capital letters, I annoy myself too when I do that, but as you cannot see when I point and wag my fingers I need to do something to convey the importance I feel should be attached to my words

No problem Bilbore; I think everyone is used to it. Good points for sure.

I mean when you were fighting to breathe and pushing your little oxygen tank around the UK with tubes trailing behind you it would have been perfectly legal to film you in your misery; tasteless but expected. Now had they followed you into your hobbit hole, knowing you were too weak to put up a fight, to film your excessive snivelling and vomit marathons that sir would have crossed the legal line. I'm with you little buddy

Exactly, although for the millions Hatton and his family got paid they could have filmed me pissing and shitting myself at the same time as I struggled to puke into my little bucket whilst crowds of onlookers looked on and laughed.