Does this make Hopkins great?

[dansapien]

maybe.

I definetely think Joe is a bigger man though.

He walks around at 14 stone he says in his book.

Hops has a tiny waist and always looks in shape.

did you actually read that crap book?

[sparked_85]

did you actually read that crap book?

yeah it is a **** book.

haha.

Had a 6 hour coach trip to manchester so I had to get something from waterstones.

I've read alot of books and autobiographies by great people, Joe's is shallow. Somehow he witholds any real deep stuff about himself. haha.

[Funky_Monk]

Whats the problem with setanta other than the annoying fee's etc....

[RichCCFC]

Joe has said himself he is 6 foot, 6.05 in his prime.

[warp1432]

Even then it's only a 1 inch difference then Trinidad. I realize their body structures could be different, but Trinidad still had trouble mkaing 147. Maybe even 154.

He wasn't a blown up welterweight. Just throwing that out there.

[TheGreatA]

You'd be lying if you said Calzaghe would not take those fights against Trinidad and De La Hoya if they were offered to him.

[RichCCFC]

You'd be lying if you said Calzaghe would not take those fights against Trinidad and De La Hoya if they were offered to him.

I would.

I wouldn't call him an all time great because of it though!

[D_Chosen_1]

Study this picture. You should notice almost instantley the size differance between Joe and Oscar. It's a bloody disgrace how Hopkins gets to fight Welterweights and then gets called a great because he knocked him out.

He will finally meet a man his OWN size.

When he fought Oscar it was at 160 and he weighed in around 157 or so. he moved up to LHW and obviously is now bigger. At the time he and Oscar were around the same size. It's not rocket science.

[RichCCFC]

[D_Chosen_1]

Even then it's only a 1 inch difference then Trinidad. I realize their body structures could be different, but Trinidad still had trouble mkaing 147. Maybe even 154.

He wasn't a blown up welterweight. Just throwing that out there.

Yup, that was evident when Cheato had trouble weighing in at 170 against Roy Jones. He had to strip down and weigh in twice. What a disgrace.