Hatton will come to the U.S., whether its the next fight or one after, we'll hear soon enough. August/Sept are gonna be big fights. PBF, as good as he is, risks alot fighting Hatton unless it's in his back yard, he may win, but will take punishment from it. Cotto has the Heart of Gatti, the speed Gatti is lacking, needs a couple more fights before he makes his move to the top, but will be on top. What fight would be good to see, dirty or not, here or there, would be Gatti/Hatton. We need more Barrera/Morales, Ward/Gatti type of fights, not jab and run styles unless they can stand up and risk everything even if they are about to win, eg. Morales/Piqq.
God, Hopkins fans are really taking this hard aren't they? You're getting DESPERATE now.
Now I'm starting to hope Taylor knocks him out in violent fashion in the first round of their rematch and endds his career. I would cry with joy and laugh at his "fans" who have come out of the woodwork over this last year..
I'd have to agree, I was hoping that Hopkins would win, just to make it to the record he was hoping for. But to go twelve rounds with a Champ, to take shots like Taylor was getting, and delivering a 12 round show, Taylor deserves the title.
Love to see Hopkins fight again, but the run is over. I just hope he doesn't retire and come back, keep on fighting or start announcing.
Like I've said before, the HV division sucks right now, only thing Klitskos are good for is headlines and gossip, definitely not good for fighting as we've seen in the past and not seeing anything now. Wait till the Golden Boy finds a HW, then we won't have to follow the HBO fools anymore.
Taylor needed that win to go on, Hopkins needed it for icing. Taylor won't risk his career with a rematch for fear that Hopkins will show him a different style of fight. It might have took five rounds for Hopkins to come alive, maybe he thought he would only need a couple to knock Taylor down, if it wasn't for Taylor's conditioning Hopkins would have done so.Hopkins mistake he lives with. I hate what if's but two heavier rounds from the get go and Hopkins would still be on top.
I agree, Hopkins wasn't out of his element, he has a couple more in him, but there is a lot of hungry gloves in that division, time will be against him now. Taylor fought a good fight, still has more to grow, a Hopkins rematch would be too risky when he's got rested fighters just ready to sign.
Why do people still think movies are real? Boxing has less incidents of injury than most sports out there. I would agree that someone not up to par stepping into a ring with someone else thaqt came to win can be a recipe for disaster but that is where the promotors/refs/trainers are to blame for not recognizing when to throw a towel. I've been drawn to boxing more over the past year (hockeys back), because there is no other sport that combines shrill talent and heart, that's why they make movies about boxing more than most sports.
It's too bad VK did get cut (getting in too close to a tech. boxer), it's too bad the fight didn't go 10 or 12, it's too bad that there wasn't any real boxers at that time to either take out Lewis or keep him wanting to box, he was bored, bored of media saying he was boring for doing what every boxer is trained to do and bored of every boxer coming in with nothing more than a heavy hand or thick chin with nothing else to offer, it's too late to speculate on whether or not Klitz could've won if he knew how to protect himself, and how many times does a boxer have to box until they say he's washed up, like Tys getting paid. Lewis was champ, because he could punch, box, and had enough brains to let the nobodies we have fight each other, leaving us with a Champ that one his last fight, even if he wasn't in the best shape, over a fighter who will do nothing for the sport until he goes down to the next real boxer that we'll call a champ.
Thank God for Welters and Mids!!
Maybe the Lewis haters should read the BoxingScenes articles like today's instead of their own replies.