Tszyu vs De La Hoya & others, how come it didn't happen?

[Flawless 2]

Because a Tito fight was worth more money?

Tito was also the bigger threat

[warp1432]

as did Mosley .they skipped a whole divisino over

Yeah...to fight Oscar De La Hoya....

A Tszyu-DLH fight was very close to happening before Tszyu lost to Phillips, once he lost to Phillips, the talks died down and never really resurfaced.

This.

As for Mayweather Tszyu, both fighters had called each other out. However, both were never that serious on making it happen. Mayweather wanted a fight with Tszyu after he beat Gatti, so it could be a better PPV fight or whatever, but the Tszyu lost to Hatton.

Tszyu getting hurt didn't help at other times. Also, Tszyu, being a showtime fighter and Mayweather, being an HBO fighter, was harder to make the fight also.

[AKATheMack]

Tito was also the bigger threat

Im not arguing with you, I could just see fighting a bigger threat for a lot more money than a smaller threat but still somewhat of a threat for peanuts

[We want Floyd]

Why would Oscar duck Kostya when he fought bigger stronger faster Tito who is the harder hitter

I don't think Tito was faster than Kostya, bigger in size and punch, yes.

[Silencers]

If it did happen whats your prediction?

DLH would have won IMO.

[Flawless 2]

I don't think Tito was faster than Kostya, bigger in size and punch, yes.

Tito was faster than Kostya easily

[We want Floyd]

Kostya was too big a risk and not enough reward for some of those guys. Mosley jumped the entire weight class to not fight him. Chasing the green. Respect should go to Judah even though he probably had no idea what he was letting himself in for lol

You got it right. Kostya was a beast at 140lbs. I would've still picked Joto to beat Kostya, but it wouldn't have surprised me at all if Tszyu would've beaten him.

[We want Floyd]

Tito was faster than Kostya easily

Get off the lechon, all that fat is gettin' to ya brains.

[Khmelnytsky]

I have Tszyu's career on dvd and i wanted to mention about the phillips loss and his style that people often misinturpret

Slow hands- the first half of his career Kostya was lightning quick, i think he lost some of the speed as he naturally filled out and gained more muscle (like Tyson post prison)

His style- if you've seen his amateur stuff and early career his defense and in particular his counter punching ability was absolutely phenomenal but as he fell in love with scoring k.o.'s more (Mclellan) he stopped using alot of his skill, that's what led to his loss in the Phillips fight
(he says this himself in one of his post fight interview a fight or two after Phillips fight)

After that loss he re-dedicated himself and focused on using all of his ability rather than just rely on his power
you can see this in his fights post Phillips

[Flawless 2]

Get off the lechon, all that fat is gettin' to ya brains.

The hell, you think Kostya had speed he was average. Tito had faster hands