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hopkins ruins the sport.
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hopkins does ruin fighters, he's retired a dozen or near a dozen fighters, most guys that fight hopkins are never the same afterwards. there have only been a few fighters who have gone on after fighting hopkins and actually done something, most usually if it's not the end, it's the beggining of the end, and what i mean by that is, usually after a lost to hopkins guys have either a string of losses or don't return to the sport, especially if he ko'd them.
it's no fun to fight hopkins, even in a win, taylor was the only one to give hopkins a rematch, and i'm sure he was forced to do so. jones didnt want any part in hopkins after they fought, and same with calzaghe, tarver says he does, but you know he doesn't, because he would still be harping for it. glenn johnson's career really took a nose dive after losing to hopkins, but he made it out the rough patch and has been pretty vocal at fighting hopkins again. i think he's the only one who actually means it, johnson is a warrior for that and many other reasons.
hopkins is a mean bastardo, if you don't learn from him, basically you lose from there on out.....Comment
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Learn how to spell his firstname before starting anymore threads! he ruined bull**** blag fighter Calslappy and was robbed. he ruioned Taylor and was robbedd, but he then got KTFO! Same will happen to Joe if he carries on and fighhts someone who si not washed up. Joe will probably call out Sugar Ray Leonard or roberto Duran because he knows since Hopkins ruined him, if he has ONE more proper fight he might just die. it is the curse of the EXECUTIONER!!!!!Comment
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To be fair, I think you're right, with a few exceptions.
But, when you mention other fighters who ruined people, we have to talk about Calzaghe.
Jeff Lacy's 12 round transformation from "the saviour of boxing" to a meaningless wreck has to be one of the most mentally destructive performances I have ever seen.
Not very often has somebody so highly touted been made to look like such an amatuer, and Lacy is now ruined.Comment
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I think Hopkins affects fighters mentally more than physically because he gets under their skins so much and they can do nothing about it when they get in the ring, that stuff can get to a fighter.Comment
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Wright ruins himself by being delusional about his box office worth.
De La Hoya, I think, was already sort of caught between two worlds, the world of fighting and the world of promoting, when he fought Hopkins. Hopkins beating DLH pushed him much more in the direction of promoting, and he's not been an active fighter since then (2008 was the first year since then he fought more than once in a year).
Taylor just faced better opposition, so naturally he struggled more in his performances, and then finally faced a big puncher and got stretched.
On the other hand, I never really heard anything from Mercado again after Hopkins beat the hell out of him. Lipsey never fought again. Joppy seemed to go from aging to shot after Hopkins turned him into a chipmunk.Comment
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this why i like hopkins, becuz he leaves a good impression on his opponents win or lose..takes his opponents confidence away from them before n during the fight...he makes the subtle things in the ring count..Comment
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It really depends on the nature of the fight/or beating.great fighters win fights ,or as is sometimes the case when they lose(hopkins) they make it extremely difficult for the victor.How a fighter reacts after is down solely to themselves.Also the humiliation factor can really make a fighter doubt himself in the future.Two cases: Jeff Lacy v Joe calzaghe-Lacy and his camp spent two months whipping themselves up into a frenzy about what they were going to do to Joe,telling everyone that he couldnt hit,he slaps,will get KO'd inside three etc. the reality was a humiliating and painful battering
Bernard Hopkins v Kelly Pavlik-Much the same thing again,although we havent seen kelly since,but the rumblings coming out of Ohio are not goodComment
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