Who did Hatton ever beat?

[KostyaTszyuTeam]

There is a story behind the Lopez fight. In the middle of the fight Tszyu starts complaining to his corner he feels usually tired. It was confirmed he was badly dehydrated, and he was using a proper nutritionist thereafter. Lopez was neck and neck with a bad performing Tszyu. I suppose you may have thrown that out there in reference to Lopez's relatively good showing, and Tszyu looking awful. He won the judges favour in a country where if any favour was going to be given it would be to Lopez.

Apparently then IBF champion Jake Rodriugez thought Tszyu was perhaps not as much as he was made out to be. 13 seconds into the fight, if that, he drops southpaw Rodrieguez clean with a wickedly fast punch. The commentators then are saying, all those comments regarding Tszyu prefight, they weren't kidding.

Yes, one of Tszyu's worst ever performances, though he got the nod. The Phillips fight was another story about being in and out of court, but again, he just lost to the better fighter on the night and made adjustments to how he approached fights there on. It cost Tszyu alot, as he was set to fight De La Hoya if he won. He had a great chance of beating Oscar, and if they did fight, the talk of whether or not he was great or not would soon become a mute issue. I can tell you definetively, Team Tszyu were very confident of taking out a Prime De La Hoya, and Tszyu had Oscars full attention. Arum has spoken of Oscars reverance of Tszyu as he was fully in tune with the rather fast, power punching agressive fighter he was back then.

Phillips took him out, and that is history. So he was stopped of that Super stardom thrust, but credit to him, he reivented himself as a champion. Thereafter, that stigma of losing to Phillips hung around Tszyu with U.S. commentators for ages. He only gets alot of acclaim in the end, when the body of his work is telling.

He held a world title from each of the years 95-05.

Yes, he sucked against Lopez, he lost to Phillips, and he lost to Hatton. In regard to Ruelas, the fight is on youtube. Ruelas was still a good fighter, as was Gonzalez in particular, and both got destroyed badly from two very strong performances from Tszyu.


Back to Ricky Hatton, he does what he has done. I think retiring with a world title, and on his own terms would be beneficial. He still has to recover, and prove he still wants it. If he isn't fully committed, he will get beat. If he is in it or one last proper send off, he has a good chance to out the way he would prefer.

Noone like to see a guy hurt like that at the end of a fight. Pacquaio hit him as clean as you can with good speed and relative power. Health issues are a concern when you fight. I suppose that is what he is deciding with some time away.

[Dizaster]

I neg repped simply because you have 68 posts here so far, and about 60 %, possibly more have just been trying to bring down a fighter... I don't mind people bagging ANY fighter.. But when it seems it's the only thing they have to offer, it's detracting from our great site.. The best boxing forum in the world, and you gotta bring your standard up a little bit...

Anyway, hope you have more to offer and once you've got this hatton stuff of your chest you can give some good input on other topics.. Then i'll positive rep you to balance things out..