the cowardice of bernard hopkins
- loses to roy jones so drains himself to make 160 so he can avoid him for the rest of his career
- beating a skill less big welterweight in trinidad who made his name overpowering smaller opponents in his 'biggest win'
- beats midget de la hoya at a catch weight (what a joke this guy is, camping out at such a low weight)
- loses to bum taylor twice
- moves up to fight tarver (one of only risks he made, to cash in)
- fights middleweight winky at 170 catchweight (winky fat as hell, head butts him to decision)
- fights smw calzaghe (makes another smaller guy move up) and loses while trying to get out of the fight feigning injury
- fights middleweight champion pavlik at 170 catchweight (catchweight king hopkins?) pavlik also another guy who made his name overpowering smaller opponents not out boxing them
- fights old, shot roy jones (even after calzaghe fought him yet he gets no stick for it)
- waits until dawson loses to pascal who is a one dimensional fighter, cherry picks pascal
- gets forced into fighting dawson by wbc, chickens out of fight faking injury (like he tried vs joe calzaghe)
- loses rematch to dawson (obviously)
- ducks andre ward
how can a guy who had a trilogy with robert allen be considered a great fighter?
hopkins has had 3 catchweights vs smaller opponents! constantly tries to make fighters move up to fight him while reluctant to do it himself, only did it at end of career to cash in and it paid off.
catchweight king, cherry picker, ducker + coward = bernard hopkins
if a moderator removes this thread then it just slows clear bias and impartial moderation towards their favorite fighters!!!!