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Originally posted by The_Bringer
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Damn, I thought it was 156. LOL@ "Light in the ass". 
The weird thing, as I said, was that this guy discredited every single "standout" name on Hopkins record as being "too small", with Tarver being "weight drained" of course.
But had the balls to say something like "Marvin Hagler was much better, he never picked on small men.".
It left me scratching my head in amazement at the double standard.
And it's not just Hopkins, it's fighters in general. It doesn't even have to be a full weightclass, sometimes it's only a couple pounds difference on fight night, and everybody bitches a fit about it.
As if 5lbs is the difference between life and death when you're talking about Elite fighters.
The weird thing, as I said, was that this guy discredited every single "standout" name on Hopkins record as being "too small", with Tarver being "weight drained" of course.
But had the balls to say something like "Marvin Hagler was much better, he never picked on small men.".
It left me scratching my head in amazement at the double standard.
And it's not just Hopkins, it's fighters in general. It doesn't even have to be a full weightclass, sometimes it's only a couple pounds difference on fight night, and everybody bitches a fit about it.
As if 5lbs is the difference between life and death when you're talking about Elite fighters.
Naturally you're going to be defending your title against natural 160 pounders but besides being ranked in the Top 10 in your weight class, they're not going to be considered great. So in B-Hop's case, he's defended his titles against natural very good 160-ers with the occasional great Welterweight/Jr-Middle looking for another division title and he knocked them off.
Does that mean, Margarito or Baldomir or Judah shouldn't have gotten credit had they defeated the smaller Floyd Mayweather coming up?
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