Thing was I couldn't actually justify that pick with anything technical, I just thought Hatton would be "too big" and would maul pacquiao.
That was everyone's thought and it made sense at the time. What we found out was that attempting to bully and maul a prime Pacquiao was a terrible strategy.
I thought Margarito was just going to run right over Mosley. I also thought Barrera was going to whip Pac in the first match. Both ended up being one sided ass whippings the other way....
Margarito was coming off a huge win against Cotto so that's understandable. Honestly the late brother Naazim Richardson was the real MVP for checking those wraps. Your prediction might have been right if he didn't.
no one could predict the blatant fraud and cheater that ward would become but in retrospect we should have seen the tournament was clearly setup in his favor with all home fights while everyone else had to fight in 3-4 different countries. showtime caved and buckled to hte pressure from ward when ward was a nobody. that should have told us everything. what we didnt know is that he was going to cheat his ass off nonstop in most of his fights and get away with it but once the kessler fight was over so was the tournament because if he's allowed to literally wrestle and hold and hit/foul the entire fight why would he ever change? and he didnt
I see that the wound that Ward gave was a deep one.
Most definitely and people forget that. Many were actually worried about Pacquiao getting hurt in the fight.
Indeed, there are some high profile people in the Philippines that wanted to stop this fight because it was so much of a mismatch that pac might get hurt badly and might not box again after the fight.
I thought Jones would win, but wasn't this after he dominated, walked down and stopped by Glen Johnson? If so, he had just one win in his last four fights, and he should have lost all three of the Tarver fights.
That's correct, Jones had struggled leading up to the fight and I thought his struggles would continue.
By the way, I think Roy edged the first Tarver fight, partly because Tarver let his foot off the gas at times by showboating.
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