Hopkins should not have gotten to 20 defenses

[ИATAS]

Anyone have a good copy of this fight or a link to it? I just realized my copy has no sound when I put it in my dvd player

[Dan...]

We hear a lot about Joe Calzaghe's title defenses, but many of Hopkin's opponents were no better.

Echols was a top level fighter in his day. He would probably be in Joe's top 5 wins.

[El Dominicano]

Bad foul, but aside from that what a performance that was...

I love Hopkins, but damn he is dirty.

Actually let me rephrase that I love Hopkins, AND damn he is dirty. When you foul as much as he does and you rarely get caught, that's a skill.

Agree, that is one thing I like about B-Hop, I'd do it to if I could get away with it but people gotta remember, Mercado and Echols were also dirty fighters, Mercado was on a whole different level

Anyway, B-Hop vs Echols 2, Mercado 2, Johnson and Tito are my favorite B-Hop fights to watch

[Fox McCloud]

To everyone who mentioned the body slam (except that **** Fulcrum, I'll get to him in a second), please keep in mind that the rabbit punch happened rounds before the body slam, so it's hard to use that as a reason why the referee didn't take serious action against Hopkins.

We hear a lot about Joe Calzaghe's title defenses, but many of Hopkin's opponents were no better.

As a lot of people have said, everything that I have heard is that Echols was a really good prospect/contender who was ruined by Hopkins. I've seen his two battles with Echols, and man, he really beat the hell out of him, completely brutalizaed him.

Echols was even dirtier in those fights so what's your point dumb ****?

Eat a **** Fulcrum. Is your argument that the referee looked into the ****ing future and saw the body slam before it happened? If not, then I don't know what you are going for here. It was the first thing that was seriously dirty in the fight and the referee looked over it like it was nothing.

The day a ****ing idiot terrible poster like you talks down to me... this forum is unreal. How is it that the morons who know nothing about the sport talk the hardest and make the boldest claims?

[Ch@mpBox@PR]

There is no way in hell that he should not have gotten DQ'd against Echols for that loaded up rabbit punch in the rematch...

That's just nuts man, I can't believe Hopkins wasn't worried about accidentally killing him with that shot.

Hopkins doesnt have 20 defenses, he have 19 and 1 NC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[DiLLiNGER]

theres a difference between pushed and ko'd.f** the haters b-hop is a legend!

[Fox McCloud]

theres a difference between pushed and ko'd.f** the haters b-hop is a legend!

Literally saying anything bad against a fighter makes me a hater does it?

Okay... that rabbit punch was strategic and Hopkins was robbed of a KO from it.

Better?

Are you serious? You thought that was a push?!? Is this guy ****ing serious?

[Steak]

I dont know about him being DQed, since that was a pretty dirty fight to begin with.

but I find it pretty funny that his KO loss to Mills Lane is considered a 'title defence'. if you didnt include that fight, he would only have 19 title defences of the IBF belt.