Originally posted by Chr0nic
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Pavlik is a huge middleweight who had plans of moving up in weight before Hopkins dissed him out a school lesson. Pavlik will probably be a 168/175lber later in his career.
Are you using the same excuse for Tarver that Jones used when Tarver handed him a TKO loss. sounds like it. Tarver looked like **** because Hopkins made him look that way. end of. Hopkins didn't make Tarver be part of a rocky movie, was Hopkins supposed to fight him at heavyweight ?

speaking of Hopkins never changing weight for his opponent, didn't Hopkins agree to fight DLH at the catchweight of 156 for his middleweight crown which was only two pounds shy of where DLH was natural at, at that stage in his career.
Let's not forgot that Hopkins moved up two weight classes to dominate the man at 175 in Tarver who was a huge favourite to win going in.
Hopkins fought Wright and Pavlik at 170 because at 42/43 he physically couldn't get any lower, lets also not forget both Wright and Pavlik were favourites over Hopkins but both couldn't deal with the old man.
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