THE BIG ONE

[bill88 6]

Hello Bill...as usual you speak a lot of sense and i agree with much of what you say......however as regards tszyu/castillo....well they do say the last place to find out what shape a fighters in is in the press !....personally i dont go on any boxing websites or subscribe to the magazines,for that reason....the media will never blatantly discredit an opponent before a fight.....i imagine you may have traded blows yourself at some level at some stage so you will know word gets around gyms real quick,and that word is more often than not a lot more honest than you will read in a magazine !

Besides which,even if you just looked at the facts...a 36 year old kostya tszyu or a 34 year old castillo,both having been in hard wars,at a very late stage in their career.....its not hard to see they were way past their prime.....the same is about to happen with the calzaghe/hopkins fight....how old is hopkins now 43 ?....had calzaghe fought him or someone like him in their prime he would have deserved every bit of glory and recognition....but waiting till these fighters get old and simply beating a NAME...just does not cut it....in hopkins case ok he is always in great physical shape even into his 40,s...so maybe it evens up slightly...personally i see calzaghe taking a very comfortable points win if it happens.

Back to hatton/mayweather......hatton actually did better than i thought he would and i think he put on a great show......i disagree with what a lot of people are saying about fouls....it was never going to be a clean fight,none of hattons fights are clean fights...he is a rough tough brawler,we cant expect mayweather to hold his head up and hands down......hatton is a one paced pressure fighter with 1 gear....FAST !....mayweather was able to weather the storm and then go up through his own gears to get a comfortable win....hatton really now has to fight witter,which i think will be a close fight but hatton coming out victorious.....one thing i will disagree with bill....i do think mayweather is at least in the top 5 all time welters....look back to the early ,s....can you imagine what great fights benitez/leonard/hearns against mayweather would have been.....mayweather has a great boxing brain and fantastic timing and distance,he punches hard enough and can take a shot ....but for me his adaptability and ring intelligence put him at the real top level....all the best mate.

 

Hey gnasher,you always speak sense mate,and obviously know the game.Me box ? yeh i did a bit,but gave up when they wanted to put adverts on the soles of my adidas I had one serious problem mate,i was stroppy,and bad tempered (which is a bad trait to take in a boxing ring) i also found out what women and drink were,and it was all downhill after that

I'm pretty sure had Hatton managed to find a way to beat Mayweather,the doubters would have said Mayweather was past it.Its a catch 22,if you lose its "told you so" and if you win its "well they were past there best".

I really don't see any big fights left for Hatton,i think the De La Hoya fight is a joke,what weight would they fight at for a start.Witter is the only person remotely interested in a Hatton fight.He keeps saying it would be a massive domestic fight between two world champs,but i reallly don't see him as a legitimate world champion.People can argue all day about if you beat the champ you are the champ,but thats not the whole story.Gavin Rees beat Mbaye and took the belt,and while i think Gavin is a decent bloke,who had a great night winning the title,we all know Mbaye was well below par,and obviously very drained making the weight.When Witter beat Harris,it was much the same,Harris's timing was way off and his punch resistance seemed to have dissapeared.All the best,Bill