Bore Hard Slopkins: His legendary HOF Resume

[Tuggers1986]

I suggest u dl some of his prime fights.. Late 90s.. Hopkins fought MUCH different then.. he threw many more punches..
Dl
Glen Johnson vs Bhop
Antwun Echols Vs bhop 2

BTW, JC didnt wanna fight echols..
educate yourself bro.. seriously..
hagler is a better fighter yea, but hopkins figures out every opponent. he is boring NOW tho

Ive seen all of his fights.

Hagler beats Hopkins everytime they step in the ring.

[GTL]

ur probably right.. but it wont be a blow out by any means

[Guest]

Posts like these are what make me want to never come back to boxingscene. I can't believe you took that much time to make a post that did nothing but prove your lack of credibility on all things boxing.

Don't you morons realize that you can go through any boxer's resume and make it look like he hasn't accomplished ****. You can do it to anyone if you try hard enough. Even Ray Robinson, even Ali.

The only good thing about posts like these is they let me know to never read anything else by the poster.

Good for you... I can only hope one day to be on your level. :wank:

[Guest]

Creative. Now let us see you go back to boxrec and do the same thing with Joe Calzaghe..

Yeah... because Joe Calzaghe's resume is so highly regarded in NSB, right?

[Guest]

this is true u can find criticism of any fighter throughout history if choose to be picky

Picky? The guy's biggest wins came against midgets..

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Hopkins only fights fighters he thinks he will beat, Roy Jones was an oversight on his part. Joe Calzaghe will be another huge mistake. I still doubt this fight happens. Bernard will come up with a last ditch demand that Joe Calzaghe must go to Nepal and fetch him the tailfeather of a rare nepalese falcon.

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How can you say that with Jermain Taylor in your fav fighters?

??????people can like fighters for other reasons....i like jermain for the unfair criticism he's gotten...and it helps that he exposed hopkins' ass.....

[Easy-E]

I've seen a lot of talk over this lately, so let's take a look at this "modern great", eh?

(Before anyone starts, I've got three Yanks in my sig, and all of my favourite middleweights are Americans... just not Bore Hard).

The Beginnings: Loses his first fight on points against the legendary Clinton Mitchell, a guy who went on to have three more fights before being KTFO by another nobody. The legendary Bore Hard has arrived!! After 22 more fights against such stellar competition as "Who The **** Is He?" and "I Haven't Got A ****ing Clue" Bore Hard steps up and carves out a HOF career by taking on Roy Jones Jr. Calzaghe hasn't got anyone on his ledger that's near the status of Roy Jones. What's that? Hopkins LOST the fight to Roy Jones? STFU, ***got!!

Middleweight champ: Nearly two years after this defeat he finally becomes a champ by taking a vacant IBF belt against the awe-inspring Segundo Mercado, a guy he'd previously fought to a draw with. After this he spends the next five years defending that single belt during his "prime" by taking on such red hot competition as Steve Frank, Joe Lipsey, Robert Allen and William Bo James. The first bout with Allen is a No Contest, which goes towards his "twenty defences" (WTF???) Glen Johnson is a rare abberation in this line up of mediocrity.

The Unification Years: Bore Hard takes another belt against the incomparable Keith Holmes, then cements his legacy by beating Tito Trinidad, a man whose ideal weight was 13lbs below and who had had just one bout at middleweight, stopping the mighty William Joppy. More greats follow on Bore Hard's resume, with Morrade Hakkar and Carl Daniels falling to this legend. By this time Bore Hard has all the belts, and impresses by getting a UD over Joppy, the man who had been KO'd in five by a welterweight.

The Legendary Years: Bore Hard takes on Oscar De La Hoya, a two foot Mexican who had one fight at middle, looking **** in doing so, and even his own mother gives him no chance. The entire Boxing Scene forum says that Oscar is too small, doesn't have a hope in ****ing Hell, yet when he takes a dive (causing Bert Sugar to christen him "The Acting Amigo") all of a sudden Bore Hard has beat a "P4P great". P4P is right... he's a great at several pounds below middleweight. Bore Hard follows up on this by playing kiss-chase with Howard Eastman.

The Fall: Bore Hard takes on Jermain "Sad Intentions" Taylor, the guy who gets gift decisions with tiny guys and gets KTFO by someone his own size. Calzaghe hasn't had anyone like that on his ledger, STFU it doesn't matter that Bore Hard lost, etc. Bore Hard's clever strategm of "I can beat any great fighter... as long as they're a lot smaller than I am" is now set in stone.

The Rise: Bore Hard campains at Light Heavy, where he beats a weight-drained, only-regarded-because-he-beat-a-shot-Roy-Jones Antonio Tarver. The world sucks his ****. Consolodates this achievement by "showing mad skillz" (pulling his arms down and butting him in the face) against the plainly smaller Winky Wright, whose best weight was 154lbs.




All hail Bore Hard! He's a ****ing LEGEND!!!!

I think you need to change Bernard's nickname, he definitly Bores Hard, but he isnt a sloppy fighter...

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**** it, I'll take the time...

Wow, lost his first professional fight. Hopkins didn't have the luxury of fighting a long career in the amateurs or the Olympics, he spent 56 months in prison and turned pro not long after his release.

It was a cheap shot, I'll grant you that

Again, WOW, lost to a legend, Roy Jones jr. No shame there. Regardless, Hopkins was no where near as mature of a fighter that night then he became later down the road.

Plus, if you've watched the fight it was a pretty boring fight by both fighters - neither of them really landed any significant punches. It was the biggest fight by far for both Jones and Hopkins, and neither one really let loose at any time during the fight. All three judges had it 116-112. It was pretty close but Jones was the more active fighter.

I have seen the fight, and it wasn't a memorable one as you assert. While I'll agree he did creditably, it just never fails to amuse me when people talk about Hopkins having names on his resume that he lost to.

It was a no contest because Referee Mills Lane accidentally pushed Hopkins out of the ring when he was trying to break them up and injured hopkins, the fight could not continue. Hopkins was going to win the fight but unfortunately this happened. Cant fault B-hop for this (and it shouldn't go against his twenty defenses obviously).

Why shouldn't it? I don't get it, I honestly don't. Regardless of what "would have happened", surely his ledger is 19 defences, 1 NC?

Mediocrity or not, Hopkins did what he had to do and cleaned out the division.

But this is what the Blow does against competition that's better than frequently given credit for - (old) Eubank, Robin Reid, Lacy, Kessler, Bika - and he doesn't get half the credit.

People always criticize fighters for jumping up and down in weight and "ducking" opponents in their own weight Class. Well, you cant fault hopkins for staying at Middleweight, cleaning up the division and beating whoever they faced in front of them.

See above.

And? Trinidad chose to fight Hopkins. He was undefeated and a favorite to beat Hopkins. Should Hopkins have turned down the biggest fight of his career (at the time) because some internet dorks would criticize him years later? lol. Again, b-hop did what he needed to do, and KO'd Trinidad.

No, but then should other "internet dorks" talk about this as if it's a history-making achievement?

pfffffft. He's the only man to ever KO Oscar, a legend, an all time great. And the claim about it being a dive is laughable. No evidence whatsoever to back this up at all.

See, I really don't give a **** if Oscar's a "legend, an all time great" because he was those things AT A MUCH LOWER WEIGHT. Are we really saying that if Wlad Klitschko KO'd Manny Pac he'd have a P4P name on his ledger so he's a great? As for Oscar diving, well shouting "I can't breathe" at the top of his voice did give me doubts...

Another mandatory fight. Again, b-hop does what he's supposed to and wins.

.. and then gets overrated on here. ****ty performance, also.

Weight drained? Where's the proof of that? lol, Tarver at the time was ranked P4P top 10.

He told me he was when I was bumming him. As for "P4P", it's not only a HYPOTHETICAL ranking by (largely US based) journalists, but it's also frequently wrong. After The Slop lost to Taylor, he was no longer P4P No.1. What happened? Did he suddenly get **** overnight, or was he overrated on the P4P list that night? Let's be real... Hopkins wasn't P4P No.1 (if indeed he was at all) since he beat Joppy. Or are we really saying that The Blow would have played kiss-chase with Eastman for 12 rounds?

Hopkins was a huge underdog. Hopkins dominated him. Tarver hasn't been the same since.

He's always been ****, with crap stamina.

A nasty fight, no doubt. But he controlled the fight and won. Not too bad for a 42 year old.

What, nutting someone in the face? Yeah, real impressive.

Now do the same thing with Calzaghe's resume. I might recognize 3 or 4 names on there, that Manfredo win was HUGE!

There'd only be a point in me saying The Blow's resume was overrated in NSB if it WAS overrated. As it clearly isn't (because I regularly read "Joe Calzaghe is a legend" threads in here, don't I?) then there's no need.

Oh, and it's also funny how Yanks talk about themselves not "recognising names" as an indicator of quality. How many names did I recognise on Slopkins's ledger? Not Hakkar, that's for sure.

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Oh Annie...

Weren't you that guy who got on Floyd fan's nuts for discrediting Hatton's career, because it would make Floyd look like **** if he won?

Looks like Joe Calzaghe is wasting his time taking on this bum from Philly, right? I mean, what the **** is it going to do for his legacy if he wins?

Next to **** all in my eyes, seriously.

The guy was never that good, never had superpowers like The Blow (come on, he has natural gifts that Bore Hard doesn't have, am I right?) and is WAY past his prime.

But cos he's a "name" (), all the Fat Yanks will rate Joe on it for ten minutes... then change their minds and say The Blow's a bum and Hopkins was overrated.