Insider Notebook: Hopkins vs. Adamek - High Risk

[rizkybizness]

"Schaefer spoke with mad respect"

this article was pretty good besides what i quoted. i dont know about you guys but i despise running into **** like that when i'm reading "professional" pieces.

[street bully]

Please guys start doubting Hopkins. I am 100% behind B-Hop, but this eerie certainty everyone has that Hopkins will win is starting to bother me. Without doubt Hopkins doesn't achieve his full potential.

[Abstraction]

It's don't matter who people think is going to win.

If 100% of people though Hopkins can win this, it's still a feat since Hopkins is moving up at 44 to face a bigger, stronger, quicker and younger guy.

Could be one of the biggest wins of his career just because of that.

However, i personally feel Adamek takes this easily, and will probably boss Hopkins around in this ring.

[street bully]

Hopkins i sgetting KO. Why people get fooled, is beyond. Hopkins is fighter a bigger, stronger, younger fighter, who have equal hand speed and is a bigger puncher, with a solid chin.

Hopkins wont be able to keep Adamek off him. Adamek will walk through Hopkins punches with ease.

Adamek is a patient selective puncher, and I dont care how good B-Hops chin is, if he gets hit flush with one big right hand from Adamek hell get KTFO.

I think Hopkins will look good for the first 3 rounds and then Adamek will carry on the fight, Hopkins will get tire of Adamek puching him around, and him constantly moving to avoid Adamek. Adamek will then, take over the fight, hitting Hopkins with 1 punch at a time, breaking Hopkins down slowly, and about the 10th round, hell land his right hand and B-Hop wont get up.

Call crazy or a hater or whatever, but this is what going to happend. this time Hopkins wont be the bigger man. I wouldnt be surprise, if Hopkins takes it tho. but I think Adamek will be too much.

Respect and props to B'Hop for taking this fight!!!!!!!!!!

Wanna bet 10K on it?

[Walt Liquor]

Adamek really isnt a come forward guy. The past few fights, he's been very patient and really landing his effective punches when he was countering. He's really been a boxer puncher recently.

But Bernard doesnt see this as a challenge at all. To say he's looking to fight the best is bull. I know what he's thinking and thats Adamek is a one dimensional white boy.

If he was taking the best fight out there he would fight Chad. If I recall, he put it on Adamek...duh. They really know that the general public is dumb.
Again, I got Bernard by boring decision.

[Walt Liquor]

If Hopkins does this, def. an ATG.

He already is. This fight is a little bit of a cop out, but who cares, he already stepped up and whooped Tarver, fought even with Hall of Famer Calzaghe, beat a HOF Tito when he was destroying people, beat Winky handily which no one does, taught class to Pavlik, and broke the MW record for defenses. He gets props for taking out adamek if he does even though I see it being boring. his style is all different from pavlik

[Dave Rado]

Hopkins looks like a freakin' creepy, dirty psycho in that picture of him in the article. He's such an ugly bastard, but, I would really, really love to see this fight. Hopkins is great...........but really ugly.

But, Secondsout is right. Anyone thinking Adamek wins this are out of their damn minds. This will be an easy decision for Hopkins. The fact is that he won't get hit flush, if at all. Adamek telegraphs his shots too much, even more than Pavlik. He has slow feet (he does not have the feet to be fleet-footed) and is simply made to order. I also have this a UD. Good achievement after moving up again, but it is not really a challenge for him. He knows he will beat him. Dawson would be a challenge and he has already dominated Adamek.

That would make Hopkins a real ATG, as in top twenty-forty type stuff.

Hopkins can't cope with the speed of Dawson at this stage in his career. What's the point in losing to Dawson when he can still beat top fighters like Adamek? If he still had something to prove it would be different, but he's 44 and I can't blame him for picking a fight that looks risky on paper but which he believes he can win. I agree that beating Adamek shouldn't really affect his ATG ranking one way or the other, though, except in the sense that he'd have won a lineal world championship in a third division, which is a great achievement.

It's unfortunate for Dawson, though, as a win over Hopkins is the sort of thing he needs to become accepted as a dominant champion.

[MANGLER]

I like Adamek, but I wanna see Bhop whoop him or Dawson this yr. I hope this fight comes off.

[handler000]

Hopkins can't cope with the speed of Dawson at this stage in his career. What's the point in losing to Dawson when he can still beat top fighters like Adamek? If he still had something to prove it would be different, but he's 44 and I can't blame him for picking a fight that looks risky on paper but which he believes he can win. I agree that beating Adamek shouldn't really affect his ATG ranking one way or the other, though, except in the sense that he'd have won a lineal world championship in a third division, which is a great achievement.

It's unfortunate for Dawson, though, as a win over Hopkins is the sort of thing he needs to become accepted as a dominant champion.

One of the best and most logical post I have read on boxingscene.

[WESS]

I love cake!

Hop by UD!