BHOP wants Froch....

[Bhopreign]

No way Froch's people will take this fight. The last thing they want to see is a slick fighter such as Hopkins. They learned their lesson in the Taylor fight that a better technical fighter will beat Froch, given he doesnt fold at the end.

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No way Froch's people will take this fight. The last thing they want to see is a slick fighter such as Hopkins. They learned their lesson in the Taylor fight that a better technical fighter will beat Froch, given he doesnt fold at the end.

Exactly, can you imagine the mincemeat hed make out of Froch? it would be a glorified sparing session.

[ИATAS]

No way Froch's people will take this fight. The last thing they want to see is a slick fighter such as Hopkins. They learned their lesson in the Taylor fight that a better technical fighter will beat Froch, given he doesnt fold at the end.

It's possible because Froch has expressed numerous times his desire of fighting a big money fight, so $$$ could be worth the risk to him. Just like in the case of Pavlik.

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Bernard would have more problems making 168 than beating Froch IMO...


Froch mite be a lil awkard but his D isn't all that. Jermain was giving him a boxing lesson. Its hard to think Bernard can't...

[LEFTYGUNZZ]

Yes I am. i told you Guys will laugh but if the fight happends ill bump the thread.

Pavlik is a 1-2 rithym guy, ad comes straight forward, BHop gave him angles and Pavlik was done, because b_hop disrupted his rithym.

Froch is a akward fighter, he himself fight in anles and he doesnt have a rithym, so how B-hop will disrupt this guy if he doesnt evnt have rithym to disrupt. Plus B-Hop will have to lead some against this guy and B-Hop cant affort to lead becaus ehell get tire.

I will say Froch KO 11.

Again you guys will laugh at me now, but Ill bump this after the fight.

By the way, i dont even like Froch

Hopkins will hit him with so many counter right hands and head butts it will be ridiculous. I mean seriously you fcukers can't be serious right. Hopkins at age 50 beats this flat footed mummy. B Hop will pot shot grapple and get rough on the inside. he will lean in with the right and follow it up with the head as he usually does. He will frustrate Froch to the point of nearly quitting. You think JT schooled him for the first 11 1/2 rounds wait to see what B hop does to him.....Lefty

[Bobby Shaw]

Hopkins wants Froch, but don't count on it

Thursday, April 30, 2009 ESPN


LAS VEGAS -- Back in late February, Bernard Hopkins called out cruiserweight champion Tomasz Adamek, insisting he wanted to move up in weight and challenge for that title. Talks began and then quickly fizzled for a proposed HBO bout in July when Hopkins played Adamek for a chump by insisting that he and his promoter, Main Events, be paid no more than a flat $500,000 fee, laughably low for a fight that would generate millions more than that.



Adamek and Main Events rightly told Hopkins to take a hike and moved on to other business. He'll instead defend the championship July 10 against an opponent to be determined, probably on Showtime. HBO previously rejected a terrific fight between Adamek and former light heavyweight champ Glen Johnson, a fight not in Showtime's budget.



Hopkins, meanwhile, is still trolling for a fight, even though he'll tell anyone who listens that he doesn't really care if he fights again and that if he does, it's because of the money.



He said it again on Wednesday at the MGM Grand in the media center for the Saturday night's Ricky Hatton-Manny Pacquiao fight, which Hopkins is helping promote in his role with Golden Boy Promotions.



But as it always is with Hopkins, it's about him. So even though the international media was on hand for Hatton and Pacquiao, Hopkins turned to the conversation to himself.



He went on and on about how he doesn't have to fight, that he's done it all, but that if he does fight he has a certain number of dollars he will fight for or else he won't fight -- as if anyone cares about that threat. If he doesn't want to fight, fine. He can retire again and be done. If he wants to fight, that's also fine. But Hopkins was going on and on about how he's done this, done that, needs to make this much money, is owed this, is owed that. Blah, blah, blah.



Frankly, I've heard it all before. I got tired of his verbal diarrhea and walked away.



Later in the day, Richard Schaefer, the CEO of Golden Boy, told me that Hopkins had a new target: super middleweight titlist Carl Froch of England, who is coming off Saturday's sensational comeback knockout of Jermain Taylor with 14 seconds left in the fight. Taylor, of course, owns two decision wins against Hopkins at middleweight.



"Bernard Hopkins is interested to fight Froch. Why not? He just knocked out Jermain Taylor," Schaefer said. "[Golden Boy matchmaker] Eric Gomez spoke to [Froch promoter] Mick Hennessy and Mick is interested. They only want big fights. Bernard Hopkins is a big fight for them."



At least the silliness of a possible rematch with Felix Trinidad seems to have died down. Schaefer said maybe he could make Froch-Hopkins for sometime in July.



"What I have to do is discuss it with Bernard and HBO," Schaefer said, admitting he was unsure if Showtime had any rights to Froch following the Taylor fight. My sources tell me that Showtime, indeed, has a first/last option on Froch's next fight.



If the fight happened, Schaefer said it would be at super middleweight for Froch's title. Hopkins would drop down from light heavyweight, where he has fought for the past few years since moving up from middleweight and skipping the super middleweight division.



"Bernard told me he would do it at 168, so I'm going to try to make it," Schaefer said, adding that Hopkins might even be willing to go to England for the fight.



"O2 Arena in London," Schaefer said. "It would be big."



Sure, it sounds reasonable and is an interesting fight, although not as interesting as one with Adamek or Chad Dawson. But it will prove difficult to make. A fight in England means an afternoon HBO broadcast in America. When HBO does live fights from Europe, the price it pays is far less because it's not live in prime time.



Good luck to Schaefer in making the fight with Froch and satisfying Hopkins' financial demands. It's not like Froch brings a pile of British TV money to the table, and his side isn't going to fight Hopkins for chump change. The British networks paid exactly nothing for live coverage of the fight with Taylor. Only at the last minute did Hennessy manage to get less than six figures from ITV to show a taped replay.



In theory, Froch-Hopkins is a reasonable fight but they haven't even seriously discussed money, and that's always when it gets difficult with Hopkins. Just ask

The writer is obviously a troll and hates Hopkins

[ИATAS]

Bernard would have more problems making 168 than beating Froch IMO...

Why? He just made 170.

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nevermind

[Chunk..]

Not going to happen. Lets be realistic. Froch had to land a whole lot to wear Taylor down, and he won't be able to land more than 7 shots a round if he fights Hopkins.

Hopkins is old, god damn it!

[BetterCallSaul]

This fight is interesting. If Froch could somehow manage a KO, he would be one of the biggest names in boxing. While this might not be a pretty match up, it can't be any worse than the Calzaghe fight.

Froch will have a small chance in the late rounds when Hopkins inevitably tires, but that's all he has, a small chance.

Prefer to see Froch vs Kessler though.

[The_Visitation]

lol @ this post. i hope ur kidding

He isn't. I could see Froch winning this as well.

I just can't see this fight happening, though, despite it perhaps being less unlikely than it first appears. B-Hop has more reason than most others to respect somebody who stopped Taylor, even if it wasn't the Taylor that beat B-Hop.