Mike McCallum vs Bernard Hopkins: who do you rank higher on the ATG list?

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The Watson fight is a great fight

yeah the watson fight is a really good fight i came away thinking and i mean no disrespect to watson that i had just seen a master in with a pupil

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yeah the watson fight is a really good fight i came away thinking and i mean no disrespect to watson that i had just seen a master in with a pupil

Yeah, McCallum was on a different level to Watson, no doubt about that. How do you think Benn would of done against McCallum back then. I think McCallum by late ko.

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i love benn but at middle which i think the mccallum/watson and only a year after watson beat benn i think benn gets saved by ref at some point after the 7th

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i love benn but at middle which i think the mccallum/watson and only a year after watson beat benn i think benn gets saved by ref at some point after the 7th

I could see this outcome happening

According to Benns autobiography the winner of Benn/Watson was scheduled to fight McCallum, which Watson did.

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I could see this outcome happening

According to Benns autobiography the winner of Benn/Watson was scheduled to fight McCallum, which Watson did.

i think then that benn got lucky in defeat,can you imagine if benn had gone into a fight with mccallum with the same game plan as he did the watson fight

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mike mccallum all day. hopkins has been a great fighter but mccallums resume is just too strong for me to pick hopkins over him. and the styles make fights thing doesnt really apply since mccallum was arguably the most well rounded fighter in history and could compete with anyone in any type of fight.

look at the mans resume:

julian jackson KO
donald curry KO
milton mccrory KO
michael watson KO
ayub kalule KO
sumbu kalambay points
steve collins points
james toney points (he won the second fight)

and thats just of the top of my head, i think hes got one or two more names on his resume.

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mike mccallum all day. hopkins has been a great fighter but mccallums resume is just too strong for me to pick hopkins over him. and the styles make fights thing doesnt really apply since mccallum was arguably the most well rounded fighter in history and could compete with anyone in any type of fight.

look at the mans resume:

julian jackson KO
donald curry KO
milton mccrory KO
michael watson KO
ayub kalule KO
sumbu kalambay points
steve collins points
james toney points (he won the second fight)

and thats just of the top of my head, i think hes got one or two more names on his resume.

Excellent post

McCallum was clearly robbed in his second fight with Toney, Toney was the bigger name so he got the nod. Toney would get the same treatment in the first Sam Peter fight as well.

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i think then that benn got lucky in defeat,can you imagine if benn had gone into a fight with mccallum with the same game plan as he did the watson fight

Benn fought a dumb fight that day, thats for sure. He was too caught up in his own hype of being a ko machine and ended up getting koed by a jab.

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mike mccallum all day. hopkins has been a great fighter but mccallums resume is just too strong for me to pick hopkins over him. and the styles make fights thing doesnt really apply since mccallum was arguably the most well rounded fighter in history and could compete with anyone in any type of fight.

look at the mans resume:

julian jackson KO
donald curry KO
milton mccrory KO
michael watson KO
ayub kalule KO
sumbu kalambay points
steve collins points
james toney points (he won the second fight)

and thats just of the top of my head, i think hes got one or two more names on his resume.

checked it out on boxrec and indeed i missed a few names:

herol graham points
jeff harding points
luigi minchillo KO (went the distance with hearns and duran)
david braxton KO (decent kronk fighter, 35-1 at the time)

look at that ****ing resume, both posts. and watching him in action hes even more impressive. they dont make fighter like that anymore, even hopkins falls short.

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I think Hopkins has achieved more, but it's close.

Head to head.... Hopkins has never been in with anyone as good as the body snatcher. (except Jones of course). What a fight this would have been.