"Alien" Hopkins vs "Krusher" Kovalev Post fight Discussion thread

The alien is one tough mother ****er

It got ridiculous in the last round, when RJ was saying Kovalev was in danger of getting knocked out-as he was beating the hell out of Hopkins :D!!! RJ had some motive...Kovalev was not very professional when he humiliated RJ's promoted boxer a couple fights ago :)...that may have been it, who knows. I thought Kovalev was in trouble for a while too, so did Kellerman in his commentary. The replay showed not, but it wasn't obvious at the time.

You were right, Jas. But I can't believe you had the balls to tweet Bernard Hopkins with fight advice :lol1: Jas a G. lol

sergey looks like troll face http://i58.tinypic.com/28rzd4x.jpg http://curvefever.com/sites/default/files/ideas13Mar/trollface.jpg Evidently that's mind games... he got in his mind

One of the curious things about the telecast was the back and forth between Lamp and RJ. Lampley is the announcer for the fights. He has an obvious second responsibilty: overhype any future HBO PPV prospects, such as Kovalev :). For whatever reason, this seemed to annoy Roy Jones, and he made it a point to trip up Lampley's Kovalev bias with Hopkins praise. It was odd, because this had to be the nicest RJ has ever been towards Hopkins! RJ did talk about Hopkins' notorious tactics after the push down, so that slipped out :). But he spent most of the fight keeping Lampley from burying Hopkins. It got ridiculous in the last round, when RJ was saying Kovalev was in danger of getting knocked out-as he was beating the hell out of Hopkins :D!!! RJ had some motive...Kovalev was not very professional when he humiliated RJ's promoted boxer a couple fights ago :)...that may have been it, who knows. Roy was giving Hopkins the proper respect as a legend that if Kovalev stands in there, it gives Hopkins his only chance of winning at that point. He also likely didn't know that Kovalev was tripped up and not hurt earlier that round, so he thought Hopkins had shown he could hurt Kovalev. He wasn't wrong, he just underestimated how in control Kovalev was and how incapable Hopkins was of changing things.

It got ridiculous in the last round, when RJ was saying Kovalev was in danger of getting knocked out-as he was beating the hell out of Hopkins :D!!! RJ had some motive...Kovalev was not very professional when he humiliated RJ's promoted boxer a couple fights ago :)...that may have been it, who knows. That was insane. B-Hop was getting battered at that point and Roy's analysis was "Kovalev's in bad trouble" :lol1:

Bernard can roll with the punches, thats for sure.

so you guys know, jim lampley did an interview of bhop for this fight and there would appear to be evidence of bad speech, etc...signs of damage that only a neurologist would examine and document. This needs to be done. The boxing fans are not exactly rocket scientists, and when you have a guy like delahoya promoting the next fight for bhop, rather than obvous 50 year old man safety, well, that is all you need to know about oscar. I think all people especially the boxing press, should squash b hop's idea to fight again. HE HAS NO CONCEPT OF BRAIN TRAUMA. .....the question is, do boxing fans care at all??>?? His speech pattern bothers me, so listen to it my friends. I will weigh in later about this, ....for those who care, the NFL has hidden this sort of trauma evidence forever and they will continue to do so, but no ifs ands or buts, bernard is a 50 year old man. That is it, no other considerations should be involved. 'Sergey Kovalev, post fight, said very quickly that BERNARD HOPKINS SHOULD RETIRE....even sergey knows this, and one of his opponents died from brain damage. Sergey knows this, he knows what happened to one of his opponents. The sport needs to go after dela Hoya, and shout him down, that is my opinion. Health comes first fellas.

One of the curious things about the telecast was the back and forth between Lamp and RJ. Lampley is the announcer for the fights. He has an obvious second responsibilty: overhype any future HBO PPV prospects, such as Kovalev :). For whatever reason, this seemed to annoy Roy Jones, and he made it a point to trip up Lampley's Kovalev bias with Hopkins praise. It was odd, because this had to be the nicest RJ has ever been towards Hopkins! RJ did talk about Hopkins' notorious tactics after the push down, so that slipped out :). But he spent most of the fight keeping Lampley from burying Hopkins. It got ridiculous in the last round, when RJ was saying Kovalev was in danger of getting knocked out-as he was beating the hell out of Hopkins :D!!! RJ had some motive...Kovalev was not very professional when he humiliated RJ's promoted boxer a couple fights ago :)...that may have been it, who knows.

You were right, Jas. But I can't believe you had the balls to tweet Bernard Hopkins with fight advice :lol1: Nice... At least some people here prove that they know boxing (even if they are playing dums on this board). I also sent Kovalev some messages, but not on Twitter, of course... At least my messages weren't contradicted by the actual fight... :)

http://s30.postimg.org/6cxq3aaan/Kov_vs_Hop_KD1.gif http://s30.postimg.org/57z2k5yfz/Kov_vs_Hop_4.gif

Ive finally got round to doing a few GIFs. feel free to use. People have probably done much better HD ones by now but fcuk it http://i61.tinypic.com/akzrqw.jpg http://s30.postimg.org/vifsk8om7/Kov_vs_Hop_2.gif One for Jas/ NATAS etc.. "One of the best punchers in the world? Pffft" http://s28.postimg.org/9gdisnq23/Kov_vs_Hop_3.gif

My tweets to bhop before fight: http://i62.tinypic.com/29271cl.jpg http://i62.tinypic.com/9jmz9h.jpg http://i61.tinypic.com/2exafpk.jpg You were right, Jas. But I can't believe you had the balls to tweet Bernard Hopkins with fight advice :lol1:

sergey looks like troll face http://i58.tinypic.com/28rzd4x.jpg http://curvefever.com/sites/default/files/ideas13Mar/trollface.jpg Lol.... many got trolled on this night.

:firedevil

My tweets to bhop before fight: http://i62.tinypic.com/29271cl.jpg http://i62.tinypic.com/9jmz9h.jpg http://i61.tinypic.com/2exafpk.jpg Your first tweet is exactly what happened in the knockdown. Kovalev jabbed, baited, and landed the right.

The crowd was a pro Hopkins for sure but there were a ton of Krusher fans there as well. I'd say 70/30 in favor of Hopkins. To answer your other question, the place was absolutely packed. It looked like they were close to capacity or more than 95% of tickets sold. Here's a picture... http://i.imgur.com/PCsmaMm.jpg Looks packed apart from one section behind that thing hanging down in the middle (I clicked to enlarge). I suspect with time Hopkins going 12 rounds with Kovalev is going to look fairly impressive, kind of like Ouma going 10 with Golovkin except Hopkins was 49 and didn't get stopped.

He should have tried moving his arms instead of his feet the whole fight then. kovalev wasnt in range........

sergey looks like troll face http://i58.tinypic.com/28rzd4x.jpg http://curvefever.com/sites/default/files/ideas13Mar/trollface.jpg Never noticed but he does hahahahaha

sergey looks like troll face http://i58.tinypic.com/28rzd4x.jpg http://curvefever.com/sites/default/files/ideas13Mar/trollface.jpg