had mayweather-hatton had NOT of been reffed by cortez.....

[Kel]

Miles, no offence mate, but when you made THAT thread about JT, I don't see why he didn't just throw the names Calzaghe, Barrera & Hatton back at you.

Ricky was a very very good fighter. The difference was that Mayweather & Pacquiao are GREAT fighters & that's why the outcome would never have changed if Ricky's mum got to ref both fights with his dad, brother & girlfriend judging. There's no shame in acknowledging his limits.

I personally don't see what Tszyu did that Hatton didn't in terms of 'legacy'. KO'd Zab & then...

Ok mate I will help you here. Zab was undefeated for a kick off and was the next 'Suger Ray' according to some. Tszyu stopped him in the second round to unify the division. Cotto stopped him too but 9 rounds later. Zab won the first 3/4 rounds with Floyd and took him the distance, I don't think he was even staggered againsed Floyd.

He also fought anyone and constantly said he wanted the best guys and the biggest fights. He was too high risk for Oscar and Floyd, unfortunately.

There is more though...

Tszyu had 18 fights for a world title winning 15 of them while stopping 11 of them, lost two and one was a no contest. Five wins were on his turf the other 10 on foreign soil. It was nearly 30 years since anyone unified the 140 weight division at the time Kostya did.

Oh, he held a 140 title for just under ten years too

Now, what has Hatton done to match that? <----answer this!

I like Kostya. And agree that Hatton can't match what he's done. But to say he was too high risk for Oscar is plain wrong. De La Hoya-Tszyu was going to happen. It was all set up. Unfortunately Vince Phillips stopped Tszyu in what was suppose to be a tune-up and ended all that. Can't blame
Oscar for that
oscar for that

Cheers for that, I honestly never had an idea the fight was almost set. Vince Phillips might have fucked up a great fight. Tszyu was great againsed boxers it would have been one hell of a fight for sure! No fucking doubt about it