who has come out of this worse?

[SweetPea]

thing is with Ricky he is giving the people who dont rate him less and less to moan about...

they used to complain that he never stepped up.... so he knocked out KT the P4P no 2 at the time

Kostya Tszyu was #2 PFP in June 2005 when Hatton beat him
I think Mayweather, Wright, and Hopkins would have something to say about that, among others.
Tszyu was a great champ, but he was 35 years old and had fought once in the past 29 months when he got in the ring with Hatton.

hope this helps

http://web.archive.org/web/200503230...ound4pound.php

how easy they forget

Thanks for finding the list, but I have to say that I couldn't disagree more with it. Hopkins was the clear cut #1 still at that point, as he hadn't lost to Taylor yet. And Mayweather in my eyes was already above Tszyu as soon as he demolished Diego Corrales and then beat Castillo at 135. Mayweather would've destroyed Tszyu if they had fought at the time that this list was produced.
I just can't see how Tszyu could've been considered the 2nd best fighter on the planet in early 2005.