Quote Originally Posted by antimoron View Post
He is right regarding the British media. They overhype everything (main cause of pressure) and expecting their fighters to dominate all the time. Hatton, Hamed and even Joe C are products of overhyping by British media. Look what happen to Hatton & Hamed when they fought top caliber opponents. Look at Joe C when he fought old Hopkins, he can’t put a convincing performance considering he fought a past prime fighter. The truth is Joe C was exposed in that fight with Hopkins that a 43y/o can put Joe’s ass in the blue mat (even if that was an off balance or whatever reason Joe C call it). British media are over the top in crediting their Brit fighters. Enzo knows it that’s why he is blaming the media on pressuring Amir.
That is rubbish.

Barrera totally destroying Paul Lloyd and Richie Wenton, Mosley destroying Adrian Stone, are cases of Brit fighters being "exposed" when upped into world-class.

Vargas-Clarke, Trinidad-Lueshing, Pavlik-Lockett, etc...

Hatton, Naz and Calzaghe are all PROVEN world-class fighters.

Naz was defeated ONCE by a GREAT. Hatton has ONE loss to a GREAT.

Calzaghe had been floored before Hopkins. Instead of focusing on the negative, how about the fact he got up - and WON the fight. A lesser EXPOSED fighter would never have beaten Hopkins let alone win after getting off the canvas