I just think Bernard Hopkins deserves the respect for staying true to himself, doing things his way and being an old school fighter who loves the game and most importantly FIGHTS TO WIN.
Bernard Hopkins has been fighting NOT TO LOSE for many years now.
What weight is he overrated at? He's maybe the best ever at 130, one of the best ever at 135, maybe one of the best at 140 although he didn't prove it (the Hatton fight shows what he is capable of there I believe though)...and no one I know really rates him all-time at 147 or 154...if Floyd had stayed at 135 or 140, he'd have beaten everyone that has come along since he left....would he still be overrated?
There is no 'man' at 154. If I had to pick someone, I'd say Oscar is the best. Dzindziruk is good, so is Alcine, Simms, I guess Mora, Spinks and Phillips are good fighters too.
Manny Stewart rode Tommy Hearns to training superstardom...if Pavlik keeps winning, then Loew has choices to make. He could go the Stewart and Roach route, taking on guys who are already champions and "fixing" their flaws...or he could build a serious amateur program and build a system there in Youngstown.
It would be a very brutal lesson for Gamboa if he were to fight Pac. Gamboa lacks power, and his speed and workrate will not save him against a buzzsaw like Manny.
I can understand disliking a fighter, having favorites and shit...I have favorites and fighters I don't care for...some people take it to extremes...no one who gets in the ring is a coward.
How anyone can be certain who will win between two guys with huge punches and glass chins with bad stamina is beyond me. Whoever lands first wins, or whoever gasses first losses.
Maybe. Maybe he will just clinch and jab. Ibragimov ducked near Wlad's knees, pawed with jab, then fired overhand lefts and clinched for 12 rounds. Haye will not be so hard to hit.
Sanders showed what a fast, strong, powerful heavyweight can do...pressure the shit outta Wlad and hope he crumbles. Wlad is much better composed now, he will clinch and jab instead of opening up and going to war like he tried to do with Sanders...with Wlad though, in my mind, he will always be one big punch away from imploding.
He gets ridiculed a lot because he's been a unified title holder, but he's not black and American. In some peoples' minds, a boxer needs to be black and American or else he's not really any good!
That's the sad truth of it. :sad2:
Typically I do agree with you, but this doesn't apply to Ottke. His fights with Mitchell, Johnson and particularly Robin Reid, were Reid was penalized for punching Ottke in the face, were disgusting.
Mayorga is the best trash talker ever. However, you need to learn Spanish and get inside Latin American culture to understand his stuff.
The things he said about DLH's wife...
He drew a picture of a d1ck going into Trinidad's mouth on one of the fight posters at a presser, then he told Tito he was going to knock him out, then take Tito's mother back to Managua with him and make her clean his house. LMAO.
kramer said the n word. that is not the same as saying someone eats dog.
to be honest
If you want to argue the difference in the degrees of severity between Mayweather and Kramer's racist tirades, there is some merit in that I suppose. However, the very basic and bottom line is that both tirades degraded a specific race and indirectly implied superiority over said race.
I think he was a stylistic nightmare for Floyd. Floyd wouldn't have been able to hurt him, so Margo would walk through his shots, cut the ring off, and throw with reckless abandon all night. I figure Mayweather would likely dominate early, but as the fight progressed I would expect Mayweather to take increasing amounts of punishment. He probably would have walked away with a decisive win but he would have taken more damage in that fight than any other in his entire career and he had no desire to deal with that.
Floyd fans are the worst. Never before in the history of boxing has a fan base all lived vicariously through a fighter the way they do. They imagine that Floyd's skills, money, cars, mansions etc. are theirs as well, so they imitate and defend all his despicable antics.
IMO it had a racial undertone. But, if you going with it is meant that he was a chicken logic fine.
However, Floyd calling Pac yellow(I think he said young but for the sake of argument) could also mean a coward not necessary that he is Asian.
So if the pic of Floyd on a fried chicken bucket is not racist or with a racial undertone. Then who is to say that calling Pac yellow was racial. Both meaning could mean coward.
Floyd issued a public apology for his statements. If he meant "yellow" as in "coward" and not "Asian", then he should have explained his statements instead of apologizing for something he didn't have to apologize for. That is all moot though, he confirmed the racist meaning behind his statements by apologizing.
I didn't think the KFC buckets were racist, I thought that they implied that Mayweather was a chicken, not that he eats fried chicken because he's black. Saying he's going to "beat Manny's yellow ass", regardless of how his fans spin it, is racist.
I don't think Mayweather is racist, nor do I think he's evil. I think he is immature, ignorant and insecure, and those qualities lead him to making foolish and insensitive comments. As for his apology, there was an article on Boxingscene and numerous threads dissecting it, so it is being reported and discussed.
Does he even have one? jk...I said DLH since I think Oscar was the best fighter he ever beat and was still the best fighter he ever beat at the time Floyd beat him...even though he was well past his best.
According to the site that reports the news about fights.
Why in the hell is Hasegawa moving up two weight divisions to fight a young, strong, undefeated fighter? I don't see this going well, and unless he moves back down, his days as anything more than an opponent are probably over.
He must have had severe weight issues that he never spoke of. This isn't like jumping from 130 to 147 over a decade like Mayweather (7 and 1/2 % gain in body weight), 160 to 175 like Hopkins (10+% gain in body weight) or 175 to 215 like Adamek (4+% gain in body weight). Hozumi will be gaining nearly 15% of his body weight in this move. To say the least, I would be guessing he was struggling badly with weight.
Joe and Ken could have done what Dwyer is saying, they also could have been sparked out by Wlad on their way in. I would take Wlad over both men but I understand what Dwyer is saying. Tyson is the prototype IMO. Steel chinned, extremely fast of hand and foot, bobbing and weaving with two handed power combinations to the head and body. He was just a stylistic nightmare of Wlad.
Big George was incredibly powerful and defeated some of the great pressure fighters of all time. However, some of you have a deluded or distorted sense of what he was. The man had serious flaws. He wasn't as fast as you all make him out to be (he certainly was slower than Wlad and IMO slower than Vitali as well), he was an arm puncher who needed to be set to throw, his stamina was miserable past the first half of the fight and his chin was only good at best. I suggest watching his fights with Lyle, Young and Ali to get a sense of George's limitations.
Fighters like Dempsey, Louis, Marciano, Tyson, Holy etc. would be slaughtered by George. They would walk in and get hammered and carried out on stretchers. fighters like Johnson, Tunney, Ali (obviously), Holmes, Vitali and probably Lewis and Wlad as well would have their way with George.
We're in agreement regarding Vlad, methinks. Nuff' said.
But VM 'smokes' GF? How? I'm a fan of Vitali. Go and look at prior posts of mine to confirm if you are so moved. But (seriously) how?
Which performance of prime Vitali's indicates to you that he would 'smoke' prime Big George?
George ate pressure fighters alive, guys who came forward walked straight into his 1-2 and got devastated for it. Vitali is a fighter who keeps distance with a brutal jab and straight himself, and has maybe the best sense of distance, timing and reflexes of any heavyweight sans possibly Ali and Holmes. He would punish George mercilessly, circling and avoiding incoming fire until George tired and then go for the kill. Assuming George did land anything huge, Vitali would just eat it. Prime Vitali is an absolute killer, ferocious, iron chinned if slightly less athletic than Wlad however he more than makes up for it with intangibles.
Wlad would also give George hell in the same fashion, I just don't see him standing up to the bomb or two that would inevitably land.
If Wlad weren't around, Vitali would be the king and he's 40. There isn't anyone in the division who can beat Vitali at 40, and unlike some I don't see him slowing down nearly as much as other have. If Vitali's longevity (even after having to take 3 1/2 years off due to injuries the likes of which Wlad has never suffered), I wouldn't be shocked if Wlad remained champion into his 40's or later. I have a sick feeling Hopkins will be the new and once more lightheavyweight king come December at 45, and Wlad takes care of himself as well as Hopkins, probably even better considering Wlad has a PHD in sports science and medicine or something like that.
I expect Wlad will break Louis' title defense record, barring career ending injury.
Yordan is better than Concepcion.
Yordan was having his way with a very, very good fighter in Guerrero for two rounds before that fight was stopped on a cut. I know it was only two rounds, but he was roughing Guerrero up and honestly, made Guerrero quit. When you look at what Caballero has done against Molitor and Yordan, you have to be quite impressed.