Prime Roy Jones
Glen Johnson
Felix Trinidad
Oscar De La Hoya
Jermain Taylor X 2
Winky Wright
Antonio Tarver
Joe Calzaghe
Kelly Pavlik
Jean Pascal X 2
Chad Dawson
Greb, a middleweight that beat Tunney (Only man to do so) and used to bust up ATG Heavyweight Jack Dempsey in training.
Who on Hopkins record would be favourite going in against this guy?
Who would you pick to beat him besides Roy?
Bernards Middleweight run? Yeah maybe (RJJ is first though) but we don't know how he performs at 175 aside from boxing the socks of Maxim for 13 rounds before heat exhaustion.
The problem in saying "prime RJJ" is that nobody stays prime for that long. We have to look at who lasted long enough to go through a collection like that with lesser competition in-between.
Prime Roy Jones
Glen Johnson
Felix Trinidad
Oscar De La Hoya
Jermain Taylor X 2
Winky Wright
Antonio Tarver
Joe Calzaghe
Kelly Pavlik
Jean Pascal X 2
Chad Dawson
Harry Greb
Glen Johnson
Felix Trinidad
Oscar De La Hoya
Jermain Taylor X 2
Winky Wright
Antonio Tarver
Joe Calzaghe
Kelly Pavlik
Jean Pascal X 2
Chad Dawson
Roy Jones would win everyone of those fights and the only person who I could see even being competitive is Dawson
Bernard Hopkins without a chip on his shoulder and a blackball from every major promotional company in history might stand a chance at going through BHop's resume without a loss. He also wouldn't be BHop without those things either, so I'm not sure how it would play out for him.
Hopkins is the greatest fighter of this era.
No contest.
Funny, because Hop virtually used your exact words here to describe Mayweather.
Roy, Hop, Toney, Mayweather and Pac are prob the guys that spring to my mind when discussing some of the best fighters of 90's and 2000's.
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ALMOST added Bute to that list....he was calling his name for a while but Chad had first dibs on the oldman
I hoped that he would pick Bute first over Dawson because he had a great chance at winning that fight. I could just picture Bute's face being in the ring with the eXecutioner.
Hopkins is the greatest fighter of this era.
No contest.
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Nobody.
Thats starting a 20 year run with a win over a prime Roy Jones and ending it with a win over a prime light heavyweight lineal champ in Chad Dawson
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Damn, Jones undefeated, Johnson undefeated, Trinidad undefeated, Taylor undefeated 2x, Calzaghe undefeated, Pavlik undefeated :omfg:
ALMOST added Bute to that list....he was calling his name for a while but Chad had first dibs on the oldman