Originally posted by Thunder Lips
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Really, Walcott to me is a "slippery" fighter, does unorthodox things coupled with traditional boxing skills. Hopkins is purely fundamental with some great slips and timing thrown in there. Hopkins also likes to fight in the clinch.
I'm curious how you assess these videos. I have only seen Walcotts big fights, to me he doesn't have better feet than Hopkins - I just can't see how you came to that conclusion. I think he's got the better jab and heavier hands however.
Hopkins never drops his guard and always tucks his chin, Walcott frequently drops his hands to get his opponents to throw punches at him so he can slip and counter. Hopkins will occasionally drop his left, but never walks around with both hands down.
the only hint of similarity i see is the way Hopkins pops his right over his opponents jab while circling to his right (or left).
Without that fluky shot he landed on Walcott he would have lost, I don't see him landing a fluky shot on Hopkins.
I'm a pretty big Hopkins fan I must say, I have a lot of his fights in my collection, but that's my take. Marciano isn't going to have "heavyweight size" over Hopkins, he comes to fight with about 10 lbs at best over B-Hop.
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