Has Hopkins ever defeated a world-class fighter his own size?

[TheGreatA]

Great job ignoring all the arguments against you and quoting a Margarito troll.

[Rane-Ex54]

Hopkins is the most overrated fighter in boxing right now. His resume is a joke.

Yall must be the most ignorant people in the world. I think you hate cause you don't like how he fights... but but name me a ton of people in the last 20 years who you think have great resume's. Like I said before, you can break down anyones resume and say the same ol crap, weight drained, moved up in weight, he wasn't himself that day, blah blah BS. BHOP has a Great Resume and is NOT overrrated, ur tripping

[jabsRstiff]

Chris Byrd

I hope you're being sarcastic ! Byrd had the world class skills.......

[Phil McRevis]

The question was has Hopkins beaten any world-class fighters his own size. Johnson and Tarver were both undisputed light heavyweight champions (Johnson was even rated fighter of the year 2004) at one time so yeah, I think they are world-class.

The question wasn't 'were they in their prime?' or 'how many losses they have?'.

Perhaps it should have been.
Truth is Hopkins has NOT beaten a prime fighter his own size.
He can never say that he defeated a World class fighter in their prime.
Even Oscar was past his prime and he was never a Middleweight.

[kayjay]

Johnson also lost to Omar Shieka who Calzaghe obliverated in 5.

People always forget these little facts when dismissing Calz's opponents. But that's not the question.

Hopkins beat Tavrer and Johnson, both world class and both his size

[Tijuana Tornado]

Yall must be the most ignorant people in the world. I think you hate cause you don't like how he fights... but but name me a ton of people in the last 20 years who you think have great resume's. Like I said before, you can break down anyones resume and say the same ol crap, weight drained, moved up in weight, he wasn't himself that day, blah blah BS. BHOP has a Great Resume and is NOT overrrated, ur tripping

The fact is Hopkins does not have a great win on his resume. Trinidad and DLH were too small. Tarver was done and never that good to begin with. Johnson is an overrated journeyman. All Hopkins is known for is his title defenses and he beat nothing but bums. When he stepped to a good fighter like Taylor, he lost twice. He has lost to the best true middleweights he fought.

[Rane-Ex54]

The fact is Hopkins does not have a great win on his resume. Trinidad and DLH were too small. Tarver was done and never that good to begin with. Johnson is an overrated journeyman. All Hopkins is known for is his title defenses and he beat nothing but bums. When he stepped to a good fighter like Taylor, he lost twice. He has lost to the best true middleweights he fought.

I hate to be mean, but ur an idiot and didn't even read anything I said in my previous posts. Ur making excuses for his wins, Wins are wins especially verse P4P greats, he still was the underdog verse tito and odlh, did you know that? Who has a better middleweight resume in last 20 years then BHOP??? Who didn't he fight that you wanted him too, that makes his resume look so bad to you?

[Jim Jeffries]

I hate to be mean, but ur an idiot and didn't even read anything I said in my previous posts. Ur making excuses for his wins, Wins are wins especially verse P4P greats, he still was the underdog verse tito and odlh, did you know that? Who has a better middleweight resume in last 20 years then BHOP??? Who didn't he fight that you wanted him too, that makes his resume look so bad to you?

Hopkins was not an underdog vs DLH, please do not print lies. In fact, DLH was a SIX TO ONE UNDERDOG:

http://www.hbo.com/boxing/events/2004/0918_delahoya_hopkins/columns/fighter_oscar.html

The fact that he was an underdog vs Trinidad is a testament to how poor his opposition was prior to that.

Like Calzage he stepped it up late in his career.

[Rane-Ex54]

Hopkins was not an underdog vs DLH, please do not print lies. In fact, DLH was a SIX TO ONE UNDERDOG:

http://www.hbo.com/boxing/events/2004/0918_delahoya_hopkins/columns/fighter_oscar.html

The fact that he was an underdog vs Trinidad is a testament to how poor his opposition was prior to that.

Like Calzage he stepped it up late in his career.

whatever wit hthe odds, I'm glad there were like that since he lvied up to them, didn't he??? yall are avoiding the questions I've been asking since i saw this thread:

"Who has a better middleweight resume in last 20 years then BHOP??? Who didn't he fight that you wanted him too, that makes his resume look so bad to you?"

[Jim Jeffries]

whatever wit hthe odds, I'm glad there were like that since he lvied up to them, didn't he??? yall are avoiding the questions I've been asking since i saw this thread:

"Who has a better middleweight resume in last 20 years then BHOP??? Who didn't he fight that you wanted him too, that makes his resume look so bad to you?"

Well, if you don't count the loss to Jones, the losses to Taylor, and the blown up SFW and WW, then Michael Nunn.