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This is back in 8/28/1998:
Go to the time 2:40.
This is the same exact thing Hopkins pulled against Chad Dawson. Hopkins realizes that he comes into a fight unprepared and exaggerates an injury.
In this particular fight, Hopkins lands on the canvas, then voluntarily rolls off the canvas onto the floor. There wasn't enough momentum from the force of Mills Lane separating the fighters to even knock Hopkins down, let alone launch him out of the ring & make him roll twice to the floor.
Look closely. Lane wasn't even pushing forward. He was pulling them apart and walking forward because the fighters were moving that way. If anything, Land pushed Allen, not Hopkins.
How many fighters can you name this happening to MORE THAN ONCE??????
Listen to the commentary at the time 8:00. Its tells the way everyone feels. After Hopkins decided milk it, the crowd is chanting BULL****. This is what Hopkins does.
Hopkins claims that Dawson threw him, but the truth is he jumped on Chad's back .. taking his own feet off the ground to add more weight on Chad. Chad simply shoved BHOP forward, and of course Hopkins stumbled, fell and supposedly dislocated his shoulder.
BHOP is the dirtiest fighter in the last 20 years aside from Andrew Golota, but he accused Dawson of being dirty. That in itself was comedy.
As I've said in other threads, BHOP is fighting much better fighters now at his advanced age because he knows history will not fault a 46 year old for losing to much, much younger fighters.
I'm glad Dawson did what he did. BHOP deserves to get roughed up for all the dirty **** he's done over the years. And what Dawson did wasn't flagrant at all. He's not obligated to let Hopkins sap the energy in his legs by having to support Hopkins' weight on his back.
Who would pay to see that again?
Definitely not me.
Go to the time 2:40.
This is the same exact thing Hopkins pulled against Chad Dawson. Hopkins realizes that he comes into a fight unprepared and exaggerates an injury.
In this particular fight, Hopkins lands on the canvas, then voluntarily rolls off the canvas onto the floor. There wasn't enough momentum from the force of Mills Lane separating the fighters to even knock Hopkins down, let alone launch him out of the ring & make him roll twice to the floor.
Look closely. Lane wasn't even pushing forward. He was pulling them apart and walking forward because the fighters were moving that way. If anything, Land pushed Allen, not Hopkins.
How many fighters can you name this happening to MORE THAN ONCE??????
Listen to the commentary at the time 8:00. Its tells the way everyone feels. After Hopkins decided milk it, the crowd is chanting BULL****. This is what Hopkins does.
Hopkins claims that Dawson threw him, but the truth is he jumped on Chad's back .. taking his own feet off the ground to add more weight on Chad. Chad simply shoved BHOP forward, and of course Hopkins stumbled, fell and supposedly dislocated his shoulder.
BHOP is the dirtiest fighter in the last 20 years aside from Andrew Golota, but he accused Dawson of being dirty. That in itself was comedy.
As I've said in other threads, BHOP is fighting much better fighters now at his advanced age because he knows history will not fault a 46 year old for losing to much, much younger fighters.
I'm glad Dawson did what he did. BHOP deserves to get roughed up for all the dirty **** he's done over the years. And what Dawson did wasn't flagrant at all. He's not obligated to let Hopkins sap the energy in his legs by having to support Hopkins' weight on his back.
Who would pay to see that again?
Definitely not me.
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