Why is Hopkins' nickname "The Executioner"??

[Left Hook Tua]

Seriously. Some posters look so damn ignorant when they come up with this kind of ****. Lets see how Kelly Pavlik fights at 43.

i'm waiting for manny to take on julio cesar chavez...... 3-4 years and chavez should be ripe for the picking for pacquiao.

[ben41193]

Watch this right here and it ought to answer your question

[Zocalo]

The guy would actually let his hands go early in his career. He changed to a more technical style in order to stay at an elite level once he got older Love him or hate him, he is an amazing boxer. It is silly to say he doesn't deserve his nickname due to how he fights right now as a 43 year old.

[Pugilistic™]

It has some good old fights of Hopkins in it, other Hopkins highlights only have his most recent fights...


Hopkins vs Echols I


Hopkins picking apart a tough but outclassed opponent after the Roy Jones fight, 15 years ago.

Hopkins vs Roy Ritchie. watched that fight recently.

Hopkins vs echols 1 was a pretty good fight. i would reccomend it to those who haven't seen it.

[ИATAS]

I realize that Tito was good at 160 too, but his best weight was 147.

Hopkins is a big middleweight and he had a major strength advantage over the blown up welterweight/light middleweights Oscar and Tito....That's why Hopkins won, he was a real middleweight and was too strong.

Tito had a middleweight belt. Hopkins wanted that belt in order to unify the division and become the first person to unify the middleweight division since Hagler. That was a goal. Should he have not fought Trinidad and not accomplish his goals because some Internet clown would have criticized him for it years later? lol. Not too mention Trinidad was a 7 to 1 favorite going into the fight.

Who cares if Oscar and Tito are the biggest names on his resume? Just so happens those are the two biggest names of the sport

Further, beating Trinidad opened a lot of doors for Hopkins. He worked hard his entire career and was denied the shot at a big fight for many years. Then he beat Trinidad after putting on a great performance.

[RagingBull22]

I laughed pretty hard when Hopkins got ass ****d by Calzaghe

[The Narcissist]

Hopkins can barely execute a bowel movement smoothly now a days with his aged self. Pavlik is going to break his spirit and KO him late in the fight.

[slicksouthpaw16]

Tito had a middleweight belt. Hopkins wanted that belt in order to unify the division and become the first person to unify the middleweight division since Hagler. That was a goal. Should he have not fought Trinidad and not accomplish his goals because some Internet clown would have criticized him for it years later? lol. Not too mention Trinidad was a 7 to 1 favorite going into the fight.

Who cares if Oscar and Tito are the biggest names on his resume? Just so happens those are the two biggest names of the sport

Very good post and its the truth.

[pesticid]

Hopkins fights more like a ghost while Kelly fights more like an executioner.

[Zocalo]

Who cares if Oscar and Tito are the biggest names on his resume? Just so happens those are the two biggest names of the sport

Very good post and its the truth.

I think something has to be said that he has been the only guy who has stopped both Oscar and Tito in a fight.