What's next for B-hop?

**El Dominicano** · 12-29-2008, 08:37 AM

Originally posted by anonymous12

I mean seriously, there are no real logical opponents for him. Will he fight again? How about a rematch with RJJ just to avenge his loss, cause I know ppl will be talkin **** for years to come if he doesn't.

Chad Dawson or go after that garbage of a H.W champion...Valuev

**El Dominicano** · 12-29-2008, 08:38 AM

No need for RJJ...not worth it. RJJ ain't the same and even I'll admit a win over RJJ right now ain't avenging anything...considering how shot Roy is

**hookoutofhell** · 12-29-2008, 08:45 AM

roy right now is not a big scalp for hopkins, b-hop is very smart and very shrewd he has a very calculating mind. imo he will wait till zaghe retires then go and after dawson, a win over dawson will zaghe is still around will mean that he can't say hes the no.1 light heavy.

imo he has the all the tools necessary to beat dawson, he has a mastery over southpaws, can time quicker opponents and his inside fighting will cause problems for dawson. like i isad though he will wait till zaghe retires and then go after him, if zaghe is still around then a win over dawson doesn't mean all that much and doesn't give him the no.1 status he wants.

**Kris Silver** · 12-29-2008, 08:52 AM

Originally posted by hookoutofhell

roy right now is not a big scalp for hopkins, b-hop is very smart and very shrewd he has a very calculating mind. imo he will wait till zaghe retires then go and after dawson, a win over dawson will zaghe is still around will mean that he can't say hes the no.1 light heavy.

imo he has the all the tools necessary to beat dawson, he has a mastery over southpaws, can time quicker opponents and his inside fighting will cause problems for dawson. like i isad though he will wait till zaghe retires and then go after him, if zaghe is still around then a win over dawson doesn't mean all that much and doesn't give him the no.1 status he wants.

Dawson has a pretty strict mandatory re match clause with Tarver, and I also heard would have one against Cloud, only the latter possible to get out of it Cloud takes a step aside.

So that fight is very unlikely considering Hopkins wants to fight no later than March.

I think a SMW/CW title is a nice little ender for him.

**_Hunter_** · 12-29-2008, 09:14 AM

probably arthur abraham or some other middleweight guy

**djtmal** · 12-29-2008, 09:22 AM

Hopefully retirement being that he is only looking to fight cats who are two or three divisions smaller.

**Kris Silver** · 12-29-2008, 09:24 AM

Some peeps still real upset over the Pavlik loss huh.

Kelly went up 10 lbs to 170, Hopkins went down by 5 lb's to meet him.

That was not LHW, it was 2 lb's over SMW, which is 1 division above Pavlik.

Get over it.

**Squabbles94806** · 12-29-2008, 09:25 AM

RJJ vs. B-HOP? Nah, i don't think it'll sell. It'll either sell and be a let down or not sell at all. Who wants to watch two older 90's fighters in the ring this golden in their career. At least, one of them is still golden. If they were to fight, they should have done it in 1993.

I think RJJ should retire. There's no need for him to continue to fight. Who can he fight that will serve justice to the contribution he's made throughout his career? Wait, i just thought of it. Jeff Lacy. That's be a prime suspect.
Give them both one more shot. In comparison, i think that RJJ should smoke him, but who knows.

As for B-Hop? His statue has grown a little bit in the past few months. A good match up would be Dawson or Tarver. I think he should fight the winner of that fight. Dawson's supposed to win the re-match with Tarver so if Dawson were to fight B-Hop, then there'd be legitimate significance to Hopkins vs. Dawson.

Imagine that. What if Hokpins whoopin on Dawson, stopping him from climbing was B-Hop's grand finale. That'd be dope.

I think i'm gonna go with B-Hop in '09

**Joe2608** · 12-29-2008, 09:31 AM

Chad Dawson would be an great fight, i think B-hop would win too.

What's next for B-hop?