James Toney easily outboxes Hopkins. Toney has a chin of granite and far superior counter punching and defensive wizard. The only aspect of the boxing game that Bernard has over James is probably the running and clinching/dirty boxing. Other then that Hopkins has absolutely no advantages when it comes to the sweet science.
That version of Hopkins vs that Toney I see....
Hopkins by ko
Better overall fighter
Toney would sometimes throw shots wild and Hopkins would capitalise
I'm hungover to hell, thanks for the laugh.
Yeah, James at 160 was like The Creature From the Black Lagoon. Except James dried up the lagoon drying out to make 160. He was much better at his higher weights where he was comfortable........... Rockin':boxing:
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Especially comfortable during fight camp where he'd sit around eating burgers all day right?
That version of Hopkins vs that Toney I see....
Hopkins by ko
Better overall fighter
Toney would sometimes throw shots wild and Hopkins would capitalise
I don't see truly heavy hitters at 160 stopping Toney, let alone Hopkins. I will agree that Hopkins has to be favourite here but it would be a close and ugly fight.
When Toney fought Nunn, he was a 22 year old kid, and was losing the first 6-7 rounds easy to Nunn before he came on and broke him down and stopped Nunn. I see Bernard stealing alot of rounds from that version of Toney and winning a decision, but Nard couldn't have stopped him with a bat -(hell Hopkins didn't come close to stopping Keith Holmes and tried like hell to stop a shot William Joppy due to a bet he made and still couldn't do it).
Now the version of Toney that beat McCallum, I'd pick him to beat Nard. At that point he was more complete and had a better overall arsenal than Nard. I'd pick that version of Toney over the Tito-Nard clear UD.
Have to go with Toney. Hard to see how Hopkins would shut down or confuse a guy with that range of tools. And Nunn was a tougher style for Toney than Tito was for B-Hop too.
Honestly believe Hopkins easily
More physical fighter
And with those versions he would throw more and win
And the bhop that fought Tito was possessed by victory. No way he would lose to the Toney that fought nunn.
No doubt in my mind
In fact I would go as far to say that bhop puts every fighter whose best division was middleweight in history in a hospital bed and if that Middleweight is named hagler, bhop would be in the bed right next to him
:wtf1:.......
Honestly believe Hopkins easily
More physical fighter
And with those versions he would throw more and win
And the bhop that fought Tito was possessed by victory. No way he would lose to the Toney that fought nunn.
No doubt in my mind
In fact I would go as far to say that bhop puts every fighter whose best division was middleweight in history in a hospital bed and if that Middleweight is named hagler, bhop would be in the bed right next to him
That version of Hopkins vs that Toney I see....
Hopkins by ko
Better overall fighter
Toney would sometimes throw shots wild and Hopkins would capitalise
There is no way Hopkins is stopping Toney.
Toney, easy.
Bernard is an all time great fighter, but Toney at his best was something special.
The idea that anybody stops James Toney is hilarious tbh, his chin was beyond iron. The guy fought and beat massive HW's ffs.
That version of Hopkins vs that Toney I see....
Hopkins by ko
Better overall fighter
Toney would sometimes throw shots wild and Hopkins would capitalise