Pacquaio vs. Hatton (boxing)

[psprowler]

Uh forget what I said earlier Manny does make it look easy.

Aside - I watched the famous Tyson/Buster Douglas fight on ESPN2 last night. When Tyson knocked him down at the end of the 8th round, was Douglas really up by the 10 count? I wasn't on my "tivo" TV so I couldn't rewind. It looks like Tyson got up at about the same point in the count when he got knocked down in the 10th - though he was clearly out of it. If the ref had concluded the 10 count on Buster would Tyson be the shell of his old self that he is today?

[Tim_T]

Uh forget what I said earlier Manny does make it look easy.

Aside - I watched the famous Tyson/Buster Douglas fight on ESPN2 last night. When Tyson knocked him down at the end of the 8th round, was Douglas really up by the 10 count? I wasn't on my "tivo" TV so I couldn't rewind. It looks like Tyson got up at about the same point in the count when he got knocked down in the 10th - though he was clearly out of it. If the ref had concluded the 10 count on Buster would Tyson be the shell of his old self that he is today?

The official rule is that when a knockdown occurs, the ringside time keeper starts the count then the referee picks up the count from him. It is not always an actual ten seconds, it is when the referees count reaches ten.

As for the last part of your question, Mike was on a down hill slide before the Douglas fight, which began when he fired Kevin Rooney. Rooney was Tyson's trainer through the latter part of his amateur career and most of his pro career. He kept Mike in line for the most part and he taqught the head movement and combination punching that made Mike so lethal. Once Rooney was gone, Tyson's fighting style was not the same and he abandoned the head movement and combination punching and began walking straight in looking for a knockout punch.

Speaking of the Tyson/Douglas fight...I( was at the funeral home earlier today to see Greg Page. Greg was in Tokyo working as a sparring partner for Mike for the Douglas fight and he dropped Tyson in training before the fight and it was big news on the HBO telecast that night. On another note, Louisville's James Pritchard was also in Tokyo as a sparring partner for Buster Douglas.

[psprowler]

Yeah I took note when they mentioned that Page had put him down then they said he might be a future opponent down the road.

As far as the count goes it seemed like Buster was getting up and was still on his way up after 9 but then the ref never said 10. It's like he could have said 10, declared the fight over, and no one would have disputed. But that was just me watching it in real time from the comfort of the bed. That's the first time I had ever watched that fight in its entirety.