Bhop has been ranked by the Ring's top 10 pound 4 pound for 10 years!

[Chr0nic]

That's pretty damn impressive if you ask me. He was ranked in:
2009
2008
2007
2006
2004
2003
2002
2001
2000
1999

The only year was 2005 when he lost two razor sharp decisions to Jermain Taylor.

The only other fighter who has done that is Roy Jones:
2003
2002
2001
2000
1999
1998
1997
1996
1995
1994
1993

Pernell Whitaker also had I think 9 years ranked top 10.

what year was roy pound 4 pound #1?

[savorduhflavor]

He's the ****en boss.

He's still a racist and kind of a prick though.

[ИATAS]

what year was roy pound 4 pound #1?

Jones was #1 in 1999 and 2003.

Hopkins was #1 in 2002 & 2004.

[Mr. Philadel]

one thing I always tell the B-Hop haters and doubters is you don't have to LIKE him but you gotta RESPECT him.

[TheCheetah]

This is what BHOP had to say about being top 10 for 10 years

"I been on the streets for 10 mother****in years and strong u know what i'm sayin"

[egreezy]

Who will be the next fighter to stay up here for 10 years? I'll go with PW.

[The Gambler1981]

That is pretty damn impressive. Just hthink about how impressive his career might have been if he was not like against every promoter in the sport until he hooked up with Golden Boy, or if the middlewieght division was not a barren waste land for a large chunk of his career. It is remarkable really the legacy he has when you think about the renegade he was (before 2005 atleast).


Forgot to add about B-Hop, he did not get on the rankings until he was 33 or 34 years old, so staying on 10 years after that is pretty sick

[ßringer]

Floyd Mayweather was ranked top 10 from 1998 to 2008 when he retired.

That is true. Though I don't think there is much comparison between the two at all when discussing legacy.

B-Hop > Pac also

I'd agree on that one as well. Somewhere out there in the world right now, a Pinoy's head just exploded...........

He's the ****en boss.

He's still a racist and kind of a prick though.

I really doubt that, I mean he hired Freddie Roach as his trainer when Naazim was sidelined, he put Mackie Shilstone in the most important role in his camp for the Wright and Calzaghe fights, he's a pretty good friend of Randy Couture from all I've read, and that whole thing he did with Shaun Negler.

[ИATAS]

^^Good point.

It's also funny that he was considered old 10 years ago!!!

Even before that, I remember in the Robert Allen II fight they were saying before the fight hopkins got old overnight and Allen was going to knock him out!

[Chr0nic]

Jones was #1 in 1999 and 2003.

Hopkins was #1 in 2002 & 2004.

in the mccallum introduction(the announcement) fight i heard he was ranked the best p4p fighter in the world and that was in 1996 i think