Quote Originally Posted by porkypara View Post
I dont know if its a recent trend but I have noticed in the last few years how good victorys are played down after the fight has taken place by experts/fans who pick the wrong winner.


For example most thought that De La Hoya was going to beat Pac-Man but when he lost it was not a case of Pac-man being good rather ODLH being bad.


Same thing happened with Calzaghe-Lacy and Hatton-Tsyu.

Seems to me that a lot of so called experts dont like it when the pick the wrong result and have to make excuses for it.


So after the fight tonight I just hope that the winner gets the credit he deservers.
There's nothing wrong with waiting till after the fight to pass judgement. It makes sense to do so. How else are you supposed to assess the performance of the fighters? I've noticed a few people saying that if you are going to say a fighter is past it, then you have to say so before the fight, which doesn't make a whole lot of sense if you think about it.

Case in point is PAC DLH. Obviously DLH was absolute shit, You're not going to say otherwise are you? But we didn't know that DLH would be shit before the fight, did we?