And some ppl thought Kirkland would destroy Miguel Cotto

[BoZz]

and some ppl thought kirkland would destroy yuri foreman

my grand mother would destroy foreman.

[$Bullsfam$]

any word on Kenny Adams? they said he collapsed in the dressing room. I hope he's alright he's good people. 70 years old maybe he just can't work james the way he needs to.

Nah not yet. He had kidney problems back in november so he shouldn't be doing this no more. He has health problems as it is to be dealing with disappoint from one of his fighters losing.

Hopefully this brings Anne Wolfe back into the picture. Shes a ****in animal who will get him back into real fight shape again.

[King Ju-Ju]

Wladimir Klitschko got stopped by Ross Purity, Cory Sanders, and Lamon Brewster, Amir Khan KTFO by Breidis Prescott, etc.

**** happens, Kirkland will be back destroying opponents and Arum will still never let Cotto fight him to prove who would win a fight between them.

Cotto could be able to keep Kirkland off balance with his jab and timing, but Kirkland would still be a nightmare for him. He doesn't have an iron chin, but *****s act like he still isn't bigger, stronger, relentless, pressure fighter, who has solid power and great output (sound familiar?). If you think Cotto would win easy because of what happened tonight... (fill in the blank)

i feel u but my problem is these dudes get ko by bums.... cotto lost to a top level fighter at the time/cheater and the so called goat and takes crazy heat for it.

[» HE3R0 «]

"everything happening too fast" is exactly what happens to a guy who's been out of boxing for that long. It's the same in football, if you ever watch you always hear commentators talk about a guy who's been injured for a long time and he comes back in a game for the first time and they say something like, "he's just not adjusted to the speed of the game yet". Same type of thing for kirkland I think, he's not in boxing shape. He's physically in good shape, but not boxing shape.

Yep. But we can't take anything away from Ishida. He did what he was supposed to and came in prepared physically and mentally. I think Kirkland wasn't prepared mentally, with the "anything can happen in the ring" mentality.

This was his third fight within 5 weeks and like everyone else, he probably expected all these fights to be easy with him being fed cannon fodder. It's understandable for him to lose his edge w/ that in mind, but that's still no excuse.

It's also hard to blame GBP in this situation given Ishida's record. Perhaps someone from GBP should have told James about Ishida's speed, because he didn't look like he was expecting it.

No matter what, now Kirkland is forced to work on his head movement and defense.

This loss can be a blessing in disguise depending on how kirkland grows from it.