Comments Thread For: Hatton on Khan: Hard To Recover From 3 Horrendous Knockouts

[_Rexy_]

Self belief is important in any walk of life. In a sport like boxing it's not enough - you have to have supreme confidence.

I'm thinking that when boxers lose they need to talk themselves into believing that it was just bad luck/a bad night/ they didn't prepare properly/ were injured / had a bad camp / were weight drained / were fighting at too high of a weight. We've heard all these reasons hundreds of times before.

They have to compartmentalize the loss and believe they are invincible again - which is hard to do when there's evidence to the contrary. Sometimes they gain the confidence by recreating a new version of themselves. So it's like "the old version of me had a fault but now this new training regime, this new weight, my new trainer means that there is a newer/better version of me. I've heard that a hundred times as well.

And then after a few losses some boxers might accept their secondary status and become gatekeepers. They then know that they will be in hard with a good chance to lose but are hopefully getting a good purse.

Exactly. It's why I always loved Mike Tysons analogy of his loss to Buster Douglas "Bad day at the office, we've all had them, just not always on pay per view"

[PsychoPat]

Ricky fatton is talking from experience he can still smell the canvas from when pacquiao planked him into obscurity. Blue moon indeed

[SteveM]

Exactly. It's why I always loved Mike Tysons analogy of his loss to Buster Douglas "Bad day at the office, we've all had them, just not always on pay per view"

well that was the beginning of the end for Tyson - he lost his invincibility aura - probably in his own mind too

[MEXfistology]

Hard do decide who's knockout is better, PAC on Hatton or canelo on khan....
Ahhhh the memories

The major difference is the guy who knocked Khan out wasn't on steroids..

[MEXfistology]

The difference from the Khan and hatton knockout is that the guy who knocked Khan out wasn't on steroids..

[A-Wolf]

Ricky Hatton, as it turns out, is 20,000 more annoyingly cautionary than most people's moms and has been for years. I'm surprised he hasn't yet worked a BB gun analogy into one of these quotes.

[Straightener]

khan managed to recover his marriage after Joshua dipped his mrs so you never can tell

I think khan being so ******ed helps him deal with being brutally knocked out ....

Every time he gets ****** he mentions how well he was doing before the punch landed ect delusional

[yoshik]

The major difference is the guy who knocked Khan out wasn't on steroids..

I love ****** comments like this. Pac never once even came close to being tested positively for PEDs. How about JMM and his last fight with Pac Man. Roided to gills! You hypocrites call others "casuals". Yeah, you're not a casual. LOL!

[yoshik]

khan managed to recover his marriage after Joshua dipped his mrs so you never can tell

I think khan being so ******ed helps him deal with being brutally knocked out ....

Every time he gets ****** he mentions how well he was doing before the punch landed ect delusional

You have a point. Much of a KO is the psychological effect afterward, and of course Khans skinny neck, but Marlon Starling was KOd after the bell by Tomas Molinares and I mean blasted out of the universe and he doesn't remember it and it never happened again. It was a remarkable story.

[steeve steel]

Of course Khan can recover; he has no shame!