Bernard Hopkins - Legendary or Overratted

[Frank Martin]

Can I assume that you Hopkins fans consider Hopkins to be a legend, based on the fact that he had 20 tittle defences? If so, do you consider any boxer with the similar number of title defences legends also, like Calzaghe.

See the resume for details.

[Guest]

No Debate A LEgend. He has been in the top P4P ratings forever.

Always astonishes me when people see a fighter being listed in the P4P rankings - a hypothetical match-up decided by boxing journalists - as akin to being an actual achievement in and of itself.

As for the thread title, are you asking if Hopkins has too many **** on him?

[Adamantium]

See the resume for details.

Do you consider Hopkins resume to be legendary?

[ßringer]

He's a hall of famer and atg though. But Ranking him higher than Pac and Floyd at ATG is a complete ignorance and pure idiocity.

You'd have to be mentally deficient to rank Mayweather over Hopkins in terms of overall legacy and accomplishment.

He may not have won as many titles in as many weightclasses but his record of competition ****s all over Floyd's.

[Guest]

See the resume for details.

Hopkins's middleweight comp was legendary, wasn't it?

[W1LL]

Hopkins got owned by Calzaghe and is scared to rematch Roy Jones. Who cares about him? Hagler would have ****d him.

[Adamantium]

You'd have to be mentally deficient to rank Mayweather over Hopkins in terms of overall legacy and accomplishment.

He may not have won as many titles in as many weightclasses but his record of competition ****s all over Floyd's.

Mayweather's accomplishments far exceed Hopkins. If Mayweather made his pro debut at super featherweight then moved down two divisons to fight super flyweights. Then you could compare there resumes, but he didn't he moved up, all of floyds opponents knew come fight night Floyd would be about 5 lbs max over the limit. Compare that to Hopkins who moved down to fight smaller guys in a weak division, come fight night his 170 lbs, or at catchweight 170 lbs he walks into the ring 180+lbs. All the big fights for Hopkins were 7 lbs north guys like: Toney, Jones, Eubank, Benn,Collins and later on Calzaghe. Why not reign there, against game opponents, instead of getting paid about 250k to fight Hakkar, Echols x2 etc.



If Hopkins wants to be considered legendary, he needs to fight Dawson.

[VipersThunder]

Hopkins's middleweight comp was legendary, wasn't it?

Compared to Calzaghe's line up of rusty tomato cans it was murderers row.

[VipersThunder]

Hopkins got owned by Calzaghe and is scared to rematch Roy Jones. Who cares about him? Hagler would have ****d him.

Gayzaghe Yeah right.

[Guest]

Compared to Calzaghe's line up of rusty tomato cans it was murderers row.

I forgot everything was a polemic.