Quote Originally Posted by THE THIRD MAN
I go back to 1997/98 and say if Oscar had not won the Whitaker and Quartey fights which were both debatable then which direction would his career have taken? I have no doubt that DLH ducked Tszyu in 96/97 and was lucky to get those decisions. So Tszyu lost to Phillips, his performances from 1998 to 2002 were awesome and a rematch with Phillips should have happened but for the fact that it would have lasted about 2 rounds.
No.

The Tszyu-Phillips rematch did not happen because Tszyu did not want it. Zoo ran from that rematch for YEARS. Vince was BEGGING for the rematch to validate the first victory.

Kostya wanted none of it.