How will Kostya Tszyu be remembered

[CGM]

respect for realizing it was time to hang up the gloves, and sticking to it.

[zhubin]

I always admired his incredible timing as well. Timed his punches as well as anyone. No question a lot of "big names" wanted to avoid him like the plague.

[Kel]

Here is a cracking Kostya vid. It starts with his 2 losses, which I kind of like and shows a lot of great footage. Good song too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23dS7...eature=related

[eagle]

Here is a cracking Kostya vid. It starts with his 2 losses, which I kind of like and shows a lot of great footage. Good song too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23dS7...eature=related

Dam he could hit hard. Bergman looked like he ws killed.

[Hulk]

Tzyu was a class act thats for sure. And a great fighter, his right hand was lethal at 140. His wins against Mitchell twice and Judah once stand out.

Still I can't shake the fact that he quit against Hatton.

It stays with me as the most defining thing about Kostya Tzyu. Which isn't fair. But still.

[kingfrnk]

i think he will be most remembered for makin zab do the chicken dance

[intoccabile]

Tzyu was a class act thats for sure. And a great fighter, his right hand was lethal at 140. His wins against Mitchell twice and Judah once stand out.

Still I can't shake the fact that he quit against Hatton.

It stays with me as the most defining thing about Kostya Tzyu. Which isn't fair. But still.

This will sound crazy, but i always saw the quit to hatton as a passing of the torch.
He saw hattons heart, his will, he saw how badly hatton wanted it.
He was content with relinquishing all of his glory to hatton.

I just always thought there was much more to it.

[killersheep]

Tzyu was a class act thats for sure. And a great fighter, his right hand was lethal at 140. His wins against Mitchell twice and Judah once stand out.

Still I can't shake the fact that he quit against Hatton.

It stays with me as the most defining thing about Kostya Tzyu. Which isn't fair. But still.

This will sound crazy, but i always saw the quit to hatton as a passing of the torch.
He saw hattons heart, his will, he saw how badly hatton wanted it.
He was content with relinquishing all of his glory to hatton.

I just always thought there was much more to it.

plus he was tired of getting punched in the balls

[SweetPea]

Tzyu was a class act thats for sure. And a great fighter, his right hand was lethal at 140. His wins against Mitchell twice and Judah once stand out.

Still I can't shake the fact that he quit against Hatton.

It stays with me as the most defining thing about Kostya Tzyu. Which isn't fair. But still.

This will sound crazy, but i always saw the quit to hatton as a passing of the torch.
He saw hattons heart, his will, he saw how badly hatton wanted it.
He was content with relinquishing all of his glory to hatton.

I just always thought there was much more to it.

plus he was tired of getting punched in the balls

Beat me to it.

[eagle]

Tzyu was a class act thats for sure. And a great fighter, his right hand was lethal at 140. His wins against Mitchell twice and Judah once stand out.

Still I can't shake the fact that he quit against Hatton.

It stays with me as the most defining thing about Kostya Tzyu. Which isn't fair. But still.

According to Kostyas trainer Johnny Lewis, he didnt quit, they stopped the fight. Apparently it caused a bit of a rift between KT and Johnny, cos Kostya wanted to keep going. I think it was the right decision in the long run, he wasnt gonna win as long as Dave Parris was ref. Hatton was free to do whatever he wanted.

[intoccabile]

Tzyu was a class act thats for sure. And a great fighter, his right hand was lethal at 140. His wins against Mitchell twice and Judah once stand out.

Still I can't shake the fact that he quit against Hatton.

It stays with me as the most defining thing about Kostya Tzyu. Which isn't fair. But still.

According to Kostyas trainer Johnny Lewis, he didnt quit, they stopped the fight. Apparently it caused a bit of a rift between KT and Johnny, cos Kostya wanted to keep going. I think it was the right decision in the long run, he wasnt gonna win as long as Dave Parris was ref. Hatton was free to do whatever he wanted.

Just watched the end of the 11th again.. Kostya tells the ref he's done. The ref comes over and he shakes his head.

[zhubin]

The Hatton fight has always been a hard pill for me to swallow. Everything about that fight just seemed stacked against Tszyu. Kostya fighting in Manchester, a horrible referee, Tszyu not really in his prime anymore, etc. Not trying to short change Ricky for the result...he did what he had to and took full advantage of the circumstances...but for me personally...that fight is not indicative of Tszyu's true greatness or his career as a whole.

[Conrad]

Here is a cracking Kostya vid. It starts with his 2 losses, which I kind of like and shows a lot of great footage. Good song too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23dS7...eature=related

What a cracking vid, just favourited that on my you tube account.

I'm lying here in bed feeling sorry for myself after spending the night hugging the toilet chucking up my guts with some sort of virus.

That vid of KT has inspired me to 'man the fuck up' and get dressed for work. Well it did until I opened the curtains and saw the rain, you can't lay brick in the rain you know...

The definition of Class Act is Kostya Tszyu.