He's gonna need to move down to welterweight.
....a 7ft welterweight...how awesome.
Yeah if he was to get in better shape i think he could maybe drop to light middle it show how great he is that an undersized heavyweight can still compete.
Look...i give all resect to manny...but if any athlete knows...sometimes you can come out flat....if you play a sport, sometimes u come out flat...football, baseball, etc, being flat is a terrible situation. I palayed soccer in the US for ODP (olympic development program). you can sometimes get to a game flat....it is just a slow starting situation that you have to get through. you have 90 mins to adjust in soccer ....in boxing u have no time...i feel ricky looked UNBELIEVABLY flat...not even the hatton that we know....still, paq was beautiful, but hatton was not th real deal tonight...this is my opinion...i swear to god hatton was not himself....he came out wreckless, (almost clueless) and totally the oppositeof his training... he look way worse than a basic journeyman tonight. god know i love him to death, and i was devistasted even in round 1....but i do believe he was flat....u gotta admint this is not the same ricky we have seen in the past...exposed by pac or not....he still was flatter than a 3rd grade bitch....anyone agree?
The speed and power was just to much for him, he didnt look much different to what he did against Mayweather imo, he never had a long shelf life anyway especially how he treats his body outside the ring.
It's wasn't the "best" hatton, but it was close enough, certainly close enough for there to be no excuses or reason to take anything from pac.
Hatton was the best 140lb in the world on may 1st and no one can argue with that.
I agree with this.
PAY TV may have outbid the free networks, but it STILL killed boxing. Free to air may not have payed as much in the short term, but in the long term free to air would have kept boxing BIG.
Your "closed circuit" analogy is irrelevant BTW.
Yeah the promoters seem to think to short term imo, they should show there young fighters on free TV right up until there first couple of title fights then put them on HBO or PPV (not that i like PPV) that way they would have showcased there ability's to a wide audience and will give them a much bigger fan base before they put them on stuff like HBO.
I've also thought about this a great deal, and the above rings true, but even with the current premium model, boxing never had to leave TV. For example, HBO could throw the networks a bone and soft sell off a couple of their WCB main events a few times a year in a trade for ad space. A biggish fight with good promotion on primetime would increase PPV potential imho and give a channel like NBC ridiculous ratings for the night. Add the free pub and I don't see how the cable networks could lose.
I continue to scratch my head at why this isn't done.
Yeah back in the 50's you had stuff like teleprompter that showed all the big title fights and you would have to go to a cinema to see it, obviously lack of boxing broadcasts on normal TV wont help, when boxing returned to free TV in the UK in got a big boost, no one had heard of Joe Calzaghe in this country until he was on ITV.
I find it funny because Froch criticized Calzaghe for fighting old men like Hopkins and now he is willing to fight Hopkins now that he is a bit older lol.
Except Hopkins is the one looking for the fight. Froch isn't seeking him out.
Anyways, Hopkins is an exception, he is still competitive at the top level even though he is techinically old for boxing standards.
Yeah i just find it funny what Froch said earlier, I have got Bhop by wide UD.