did hopkins ever beat an elite fighter in there prime or natural weight division?
LOL@ sneaking this in there - especially since Hops has beat several pound for pounders over his career. But humor me...what's natural weight division?
LOL@ sneaking this in there - especially since Hops has beat several pound for pounders over his career. But humor me...what's natural weight division?
Its a valid question. Maybe Joe shouldve fought Pacquiao since hes prime and elite and weight is irrelevent
Ok this is a ****** post/poll because you say it's for Calzaghe FANS, but obviously those that are going to vote will be Calzaghe haters, and they'll all vote NO.
The whole definition of what makes someone "elite" is so subjective it's not even worth discussing. Ricky Hatton has been in the top 10 P4P for years and anyone who tries to tell me he's more skilled than Kessler should ****in' die.
Lacy might not have been "elite", but everyone picked him to KO Calzaghe, and not because they thought Calzaghe ******, but because everyone was on Lacy's nuts so hard. So that win, especially when you consider what Joe did to him, definitely qualifies as a victory over a prime, elite fighter.
Also, the whole "prime" thing is ******. Some fighters are so good, that even outside of their prime they still do stuff that no one expects them to do. We recently saw this with Mosley beating Margarito. While Hopkins was not in his "prime", he was still ranked top 5 P4P, so why all the talk about "prime AND elite", it's really pointless. Some fighters don't have to be in their prime to be elite, and others may be viewed as elite by some people, but not by ALL people. The point I'm trying to make is that it's very easy to try to discredit someone's resume by picking it apart like this, and it can be done with every fighter.
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