In your opinion was hatton knocked down?

[Super_Lightweight]

hmm

This isn't the Supreme Court where you go on precedent. There are clear, black and white rules on what a low blow is. A low blow is anything below the belly-button, and as that much did fall just below the belly-button, it was low and NOT a legitimate knockdown, so there is no "opinion" on this matter.

[Martin (Top Knowledge)]

i watched the replay several times. played it in slo-mo, rewind slo-mo, pause...i mean i get hit at the belt line all the time and the refs always call it fair game. it looked very much like it it fair. it was clearly a lot higher than when ricky hit tyzsu later on the fight.

Yeah, but if you also do a rewind slow-mo when the referee get's the fighters back together, Kostya Tszyu offers his hand as a mark of respect and apoligy.

Kostya knew it was low, I thought it was low, the referee thought it was low, and I reckon most people would think it was low.

Kostya hit Ricky with LOTS of head shots and body shots throughout the fight, and no of them seemed to bother Ricky too much. So I think that would indicate that this (isolated) particular blow which did have an affect, was indeed low.

[Manny_P]

i dont see how that shiznite matta though! Tszyu ****in quit!

[cvt]

Yeah, but if you also do a rewind slow-mo when the referee get's the fighters back together, Kostya Tszyu offers his hand as a mark of respect and apoligy.

Kostya knew it was low, I thought it was low, the referee thought it was low, and I reckon most people would think it was low.

Kostya hit Ricky with LOTS of head shots and body shots throughout the fight, and no of them seemed to bother Ricky too much. So I think that would indicate that this (isolated) particular blow which did have an affect, was indeed low.

i agree ricky didn't get bottered too much by most of koysta's shots. but this particular shot came when ricky was advancing in and didn't expect it. and as you know it's the ones that you don't expect that hurt like a mofo.

as for Super_Lightweight..i really did think it was at the belly button. does anyone have a clip?

this thread is not about discrediting ricky. ricky one it fair and square.

and i've hit guys right at the gut where the ref called it low. then when i see it on video i hit em sqaure and fair. but if the ref calls it low then it's only courteous to put your glove out (sometimes the action is so furious and your adenaline is pumping the fighter who threw the shot is not too sure as well..till he sees the tape)

[Martin (Top Knowledge)]

i agree ricky didn't get bottered too much by most of koysta's shots. but this particular shot came when ricky was advancing in and didn't expect it. and as you know it's the ones that you don't expect that hurt like a mofo.

as for Super_Lightweight..i really did think it was at the belly button. does anyone have a clip?

this thread is not about discrediting ricky. ricky one it fair and square.

and i've hit guys right at the gut where the ref called it low. then when i see it on video i hit em sqaure and fair. but if the ref calls it low then it's only courteous to put your glove out (sometimes the action is so furious and your adenaline is pumping the fighter who threw the shot is not too sure as well..till he sees the tape)

Well this conversation will just end up, "Yes it was, "no it wasn't", "YES IT WAS!", "NO IT WASN'T!"... LOL!... It was a low blow man... It landed around the bladder area.

They got given instructions before the fight as to what's low, and the belt line was the marker.

[Super_Lightweight]

hmm

Yeah I've been in some sparring sessions where I would hit a guy low twice or thrice and not even mean to or know I was doing it.

[cvt]

Yeah I've been in some sparring sessions where I would hit a guy low twice or thrice and not even mean to or know I was doing it.

yeah that's what i mean. the action is so furious sometimes that you're throwing stuff around and don't realise it till later.

and to martinwbc: good point

[elveiel]

It was a low blow, the only time either fighter was near going down was when the ropes saved Tszyu at the start of the 6th.

[dogtown123]

it was a knockdown the beltline is considered fair play some of the body shots that wright was throwing on trinidad were about there plus there was just a small portion of the glove below the beltline

[SalvaDominicano]

i felt it was more of a slip than anything else. he was off balance and tszyu just hit him hard enough to knock him down.