For you that think Popkins will win... Plz Explain

[Lucky13]

No he doesn't. I havent seen proof of his conditioning for years.

It's easier to look great at the latter stages of bouts if you aren't throwing many punches and always using lateral movement and on the backfoot.

Dont even try and tell me he's in better shape then the young guys, cause i wont believe it.

Look, he's not in better shape than young guys but who the hell says he's not in good shape for a young guy when actually refering to a forty something year old. Unecessary comment don't you think?
At the end of the day, he's judged by his age/boxing ability/workrate ratio.
His conditioning is great.

[oovavu]

its an opinion, and as i've sid my opinions don't relly turn out that good, i agree it'll be an ugly fight, but maybe hops will go out on one big hurrar and throw caution to the wind, its either going to be **** or be great.

[Haterfree]

How do we really know this fight is going to happen anyway?

[Azteca]

Look, he's not in better shape than young guys but who the hell says he's not in good shape for a young guy when actually refering to a forty something year old. Unecessary comment don't you think?
At the end of the day, he's judged by his age/boxing ability/workrate ratio.
His conditioning is great.

**** you, Bomber.

[NeXt In Line]

In the words of B-Hop before the Winky fight: "He is not going to dictate to me how this fight's going to be, this fight's going to be at MY pace, he's gunna fight the way I WANT him to fight."

Bernard is the master of making people fight HIS fight, and mark my words he'll find a way to surprise a lot of people, he's done it numerous times before. In fact he's similar in a lot of ways to Joe: Did most people give Hopkins a chance against Trinidad? Nope, and look what happened, same with Joe and Lacy.

[Lucky13]

28% and actually Kessler landed a better % than Calzaghe

28% while other boxers landed single digit numbers on Kessler because of his great footwork.
Kessler landed a higher % but he threw less punches and that won't win you a fight against Joe.

[Azteca]

Great footwork?

Er....

[Azteca]

He's good at the in and out **** but other then that, his footwork is nothing special.

[Lucky13]

How do we really know this fight is going to happen anyway?

At least we know that Joe wants this fight more that Popkins...
...so if it doesn't happen, blame Pops.

[Lucky13]

Great footwork?

Er....

Kessler does have great footwork no?
That's key to his good defense. Joe took that away from him.