It was only a short sentence from David Tua - but it spoke volumes.
"What was missing from my last three or four or five fights was that I wasn't in fighting shape.''
For any boxer, in any division, in any circumstances, to say that in public means that some soul-searching and facts-facing has been going on. Tua's appearance at his last press conference before Saturday night showed the vast difference between Tua in recent years and Tua now.