Open letter from Kostya Tszyu to his fans...

[BrooklynBomber]

There are fighters that just have your number. Like MAB over Morales, Forrest over Mosley and Tszyu over Judah. Watch the second round of Tszyu Judah fight. Kostya was controlling the pace of a fight with his jab and left hook the whole second round, but what happened to Zab if he started so strong possibly wobbling Tszyu with that uppecut(beautiful uppercut it was) and now he is all cautious to get in and land on Tszyu. Thats because he already tasted Tszyu's power in first round. Kostya only hit him with a couple of shirt right hands and that totally changed the whole pace of a fight. Now what would tell you that its gonna be any different in a rematch. Zab grew a mayorga chin?
As far as I know, nope. OR do you think he can avoid tszyu punches the whole fight? I dont think so, nobody did and nobody will.

[Super_Lightweight]

hmm

Like MAB over Morales, Forrest over Mosley and Tszyu over Judah.

That's not really that solid. Forrest has Mosley's number, sure, but MAB doesn't really have Erik's. Many people feel Erik could have won and will win another fight if they fight again because he wasn't in the shape he was vs pacquiao when he fought MAB the 3rd time, and he got into a brawl when he could have outboxed MAB at times. Also, Erik has beaten MAB once. When someone has your number you never beat them.

Also, it's been a while since Judah and Tszyu have fought. Judah looks more focused plus he is bigger these days. Tszyu has only beaten him once so no one knows if Tszyu has Judah's number because he hasn't proven it yet by beating him twice decisively.

[Tha Greatest]

Hatton is gonna get destroyed...

He might pressure Tszyu but Tszyu will just land that right hand and drop him like a sack of potatoes

[adeelr]

tzyu will win, then he should whup zab judah again.

[BrooklynBomber]

That's not really that solid. Forrest has Mosley's number, sure, but MAB doesn't really have Erik's. Many people feel Erik could have won and will win another fight if they fight again because he wasn't in the shape he was vs pacquiao when he fought MAB the 3rd time, and he got into a brawl when he could have outboxed MAB at times. Also, Erik has beaten MAB once. When someone has your number you never beat them.

Also, it's been a while since Judah and Tszyu have fought. Judah looks more focused plus he is bigger these days. Tszyu has only beaten him once so no one knows if Tszyu has Judah's number because he hasn't proven it yet by beating him twice decisively.

Ok. if you dont like my MAB over Morales example, lets use Winky over Tito or Foreman over Frazier is that good enough?

[Super_Lightweight]

hmm

Ok. if you dont like my MAB over Morales example, lets use Winky over Tito or Foreman over Frazier is that good enough?

Id' say we have a winner! lol

Foreman *****-smacked Frazier and totaly owned him and same for Winky over Tito.

[moochi]

I do agree with you... But I do think that Ricky Hatton has a chance of dethroning King Kostya.

Simply because of Ricky's style... (Very fast paced - and he ties the opponent up a lot) Which Kostya doesn't like.

That said, read the last paragraph of his letter to the fans... Kinda makes me worry as a Hatton fan!

i agree with you too.......because of the combing factors; age, home advantage, and styles......

there is a 10 year age advantage, and even though Kostya says he feels strong, the contributing factors could make he feel 36 once he actually enters the ring.....

i would like to see hatton win and them having a rematch perhaps in sydney.....although personally i can see tszyu retiring regardless of the outcome......he has cash, respect, etc, and he'll call it a day.

[tyson]

There are fighters that just have your number. Like MAB over Morales, Forrest over Mosley and Tszyu over Judah. Watch the second round of Tszyu Judah fight. Kostya was controlling the pace of a fight with his jab and left hook the whole second round, but what happened to Zab if he started so strong possibly wobbling Tszyu with that uppecut(beautiful uppercut it was) and now he is all cautious to get in and land on Tszyu. Thats because he already tasted Tszyu's power in first round. Kostya only hit him with a couple of shirt right hands and that totally changed the whole pace of a fight. Now what would tell you that its gonna be any different in a rematch. Zab grew a mayorga chin?
As far as I know, nope. OR do you think he can avoid tszyu punches the whole fight? I dont think so, nobody did and nobody will.

Zab Judah has/had a tendency to fight one round on, one round off. See against Jan Bergman, where Zab knocked him down two times in the first round, bull-charging Bergman like a maniac, only to fall asleep in the two next rounds. One in which he was floored.
If you look at the punch stats, you can see Zab taking the second round off compared to the first, which led to Tszyu could unleash his punches.

I think Judah has matured enough to avoid running around the ring, hands down and smiling to Tszyu a second time around.

[Ranger2408]

People could talk all day about who will win, i for one am waiting, and i will be betting my points on judah

I am a huge fan of a 100% focused zab, one of the best fighters in the world.

[Martin (Top Knowledge)]

i agree with you too.......because of the combing factors; age, home advantage, and styles......

there is a 10 year age advantage, and even though Kostya says he feels strong, the contributing factors could make he feel 36 once he actually enters the ring.....

i would like to see hatton win and them having a rematch perhaps in sydney.....although personally i can see tszyu retiring regardless of the outcome......he has cash, respect, etc, and he'll call it a day.

You couldn't have put that better man... Kostya Tszyu may feel like a million dollers in training and sparring at the moment, but it'll be a different ball game when he get's in the ring with a young, hungry, Hatton... (And Hatton is treating this fight as his destiny!).

All these guy's like Oliviera/Stewert/Tackie/Phillips/Magee etc.. After fighting Ricky Hatton said they were never expecting him to be so strong, and they were suprised that how he was able to keep such a relentless pace up!

I hope Kostya Tszyu says the same thing after their fight on 4th June!