Hopkins in 2008: "I'll never lose to a white boy!!!".
Guess what happened. Joe also did it while Hopkins was at his peak based on what has happened since. that win looks better and better every time Hopkins fights.
That whole scenario and scene was hilarious ... Calslappy slapped that azz with a smile.
Lesson#1: Keep you racial bigotries at home where they belong.
lol at these nuthuggers
im a bhop fan but a boxing fan before anything and dont debate with other agendas i.e. race.
Hopkins in 2008: "I'll never lose to a white boy!!!".
Guess what happened. Joe also did it while Hopkins was at his peak based on what has happened since. That win looks better and better every time Hopkins fights.
B-Hop out points him. This guy triple G wasn't good enough to win Olympic gold. He doesn't have the skills Hopkins has.
GGG has a style more suited for the pros, that much is obvious.
As you saw, Vitali didn't win Olympic Gold and knocked out a gold medalist in the 1st round.
Bhop and fairly comfortably. 8-4/7-5 type of decision, because he starts slow.
Golovkin isn't outboxing or outlanding him and can't even see him hurting Hopkins.
Pavlik, Oscar, and Wright were 3 of his most high profile wins though. Meanwhile Floyd gets crapped out for beating Marquez at WW still, even though Marquez beat the supposed best WW after the fact.
To people who know boxing know that Hopkins best wins were not DLH or Winky. I'll give you Pavlik.
To me it's Trinidad, Tarver, Pascal, Pavlik, Winky. #6 I would give you Johnson, and #7 I would say it's DLH.
"High profile" does not mean "Best". Pacquiao's most popular win, most high profile win was De La Hoya, it does not make it his best. His best win was the first MAB fight, followed by the second Marquez fight, the second Morales fight, then Cotto, Hatton, Bradley.
Mayweather's most high profile wins was De La Hoya and Canelo. But those are not #'s 1 and 2 in his "best " list. It's Corrales, Castillo, and Hernandez, you can follow those 3 with DLH, Marquez, Hatton, Cotto, Mosley in any order.
High profile is just a popular fight, not the fight that defines the fighter. No serious boxing fan will ever tell you DLH and Winky were B-Hop's top 2 best wins.
Why all this weight class jumping around!
175.....Hopkins vs Stevenson
160......GGG vs Sergio
Let people fight were they belong and stop all the "fantasy BS"! Ray.
Trinidad established himself as a legit MW by stopping Joppy, before getting stopped by Hopkins, who he himself couldn't stop Joppy. Trinidad a MW title holder. That's a MW. No matter where he came up from, he was a MW.
Hopkins moved up 15lbs to defeat Antonio Tarver for The Ring 175 title.
Taylor was a MW, Hopkins fought 24 close rounds with him.
Johnson, Eastmen, Vanderpool, Allen were all legit MW's.
Pascal, Tarver, Cloud were all legit LHW's
Hopkins fighting "smaller" fighters is blown way out of proportion. Winky couldn't get a fight, Hopkins couldn't get a fight, both made compromises. Of course Winky made a bigger compromise but that was on him. Pavlik was parading around that he was too big for MW and will be more comfortable at 170lbs(similar to Hatton saying the same vs Mayweather at 147).
Beating Chavez Jr and then Ward in HBO will make him just that. Not that he'll surely beat Ward. Regardless, he's an HBO fighter, this is just fantasy fight sake. Hopkins was a MW too you know.
Pavlik, Oscar, and Wright were 3 of his most high profile wins though. Meanwhile Floyd gets crapped out for beating Marquez at WW still, even though Marquez beat the supposed best WW after the fact.
I'm not a fan of Hopkins but I respect what he's accomplished......however do we really need yet another fighter from lower weights move up to fight Hopkins??? A lot of his biggest wins were just that, fighters smaller moving up to fight him from JMW/MW.
Trinidad established himself as a legit MW by stopping Joppy, before getting stopped by Hopkins, who he himself couldn't stop Joppy. Trinidad a MW title holder. That's a MW. No matter where he came up from, he was a MW.
Hopkins moved up 15lbs to defeat Antonio Tarver for The Ring 175 title.
Taylor was a MW, Hopkins fought 24 close rounds with him.
Johnson, Eastmen, Vanderpool, Allen were all legit MW's.
Pascal, Tarver, Cloud were all legit LHW's
Hopkins fighting "smaller" fighters is blown way out of proportion. Winky couldn't get a fight, Hopkins couldn't get a fight, both made compromises. Of course Winky made a bigger compromise but that was on him. Pavlik was parading around that he was too big for MW and will be more comfortable at 170lbs(similar to Hatton saying the same vs Mayweather at 147).
WTF??? GGG's a MW, B-hop's a LHW. How bout a super middleweight vs Hopkins?
Beating Chavez Jr and then Ward in HBO will make him just that. Not that he'll surely beat Ward. Regardless, he's an HBO fighter, this is just fantasy fight sake. Hopkins was a MW too you know.
I'm not a fan of Hopkins but I respect what he's accomplished......however do we really need yet another fighter from lower weights move up to fight Hopkins??? A lot of his biggest wins were just that, fighters smaller moving up to fight him from JMW/MW.
I wanna see how ggg looks at super middle first and if he looks good, i would give edge to triple g
I would too ... B-Hop would have to turn the fight ugly as soon as the second round. Because GGG is just too aggressive and relentless for B-Hop to box & slip his punches all night.
lol and who did GGG beat to make you believe he could defeat a proven all time great like Bernard Hopkins? Interesting logic.
I admit that GGG hasnt really been truly tested and he has only beaten a couple of decent fighters.
GGG has a good amateur record and think that he is better then a mindless robot that a lot of people make him out to be.
Hopkins is old, people are only saying that he is a top p4p fighter because they take his age into consideration.
The p4p list shouldnt be a charity imo.
And I dont know why there is this GGG comparison with Hopkins any way, why not say Ward v Hopkins because that is more realistic.
lol at these nuthuggers
im a bhop fan but a boxing fan before anything and dont debate with other agendas i.e. race.
Well I am a tanned Hispanic and I say GGG is a MW, Hopkins is a LHW, GGG would bite off more than he can chew. It is true that a win over Chavez Jr at 168, who lost to a former 154 pounder, does not translate to being able to beat Hopkins at 170.
A far better fighter than GGG in Winky Wright tried to beat B-Hop at 170lbs and failed. Kelly Pavlik a 4-1 favorite who was supposed to KO Hopkins at 170lbs, failed miserably. If we talk about Hopkins being older now, well Pascal who is IMO a bigger, faster, better SMW-LHW than GGG will be, failed twice.
It's not about race, GGG is a good banger, he'll give a good fight to Chavez Jr, probably beat him, but B-Hop is another league. Chavez Jr doesn't even have a win over a SMW.
You guys are overrating the crap out of hopkins after he just beat a bum.
lol and who did GGG beat to make you believe he could defeat a proven all time great like Bernard Hopkins? Interesting logic.