Comments Thread For: On this day: Bernard Hopkins takes apart Felix Trinidad

[1Eriugenus]

The fool is you. I get it. You're a Hopkins fan.

Damn right, & if you knew the first thing about boxing so would you be.

It doesn't matter how long that he stayed at middleweight, he gradually moved to heavier weight classes naturally. He never fought anyone who outclassed him in size/weight, it was the other way around.

Yep, that is what you're meant to do. If you're SRL you may take on guys much bigger than you almost as a dare & if you're Duran you may end up fighting guys much bigger than you because the alternative would be eating & drinking sensibly, but what you just said is how boxers are meant to move between divisions.

He lost against the more powerful punchers.

We're just celebrating his victory over Felix Trinidad. With the possible exception of Julian Jackson, no MoFo ever has hit harder than Trinidad, well, maybe Bob Fitzsimmons or Sam Langford but there is no possible footage of them.

He got some of his biggest wins against smaller elite fighters, and he only beat two that were his size in their primes - Pavlik and Tarver.

Look up BoxRec, if you seriously don't think B-Hop beat top men then YDKSAB

Straight defense streaks mean nothing if you avoid the best, and get beat by fighters your own size.

But he didn't. So STFU.

[Mario040481]

manually change the quality to 720 60fps in the YT settings

[Corelone]

Hop waa great in the ring and a weirdo, funny and sad outside. Beating Trinidad was a master piece. Stomping on the PR Flag in Puerto Rico was to die for. He had to jump from the second story to escape. I should have known, anybody who can outrun a hundred raging Puerto Ricans wasn't about to lose to one.

[STREET CLEANER]

Tito dared to be great and Hopkins was considered to be the best MW at that time. That fight was postponed because of 911 and there were a lot of distractions. It should had been rescheduled but regardless Hopkins would had one. Tito was totally ineffective and Hopkins was in his head.

[1Eriugenus]

B-Hop was a very skilled & very intelligent guy. As Corelone says, he was a bit odd. He did prison time & I think that changed him, that he would do anything never to go back there. I loved his cerebral approach to boxing. He was like a Kasparov that could out-think anyone. He couldn't beat RJJ because boxing isn't chess. RJJ had speed & fast-twitch muscles that were different level. All B-Hop's deep thoughts couldn't nullify RJJ's superior speed.

[richardt]

One thing that I really appreciated is when Hopkins as he said he was going to do, flew to Puerto Rico to apologize for throwing their flag down.

[elfag]

Hopkins is one of the dirtiest fighters in history, and he lost to TWO white boys.

some of his later fights are horrible. he gets all these praises for fighting in his mid to late 40s but the fights are full of his antics. constant hugging. complaining to the ref that he was fouled. rolling around on the canvas trying to sell a foul like he is lebron. Then smith knocked his ass straight out the ***ign ring and he tried to complain and say he was pushed. bro you were punched you get 10 seconds to get your ass back in the ring. he quit that fight and tried to tell his remaining fans that he was pushed out

some remaining fans would say "oh hes such a crafty veteran" no he was straight up using his fame and notoriety to try to manipulate the refs, hes just straight up cheating

waited until roy jones was shot to ever rematch him too.

[elfag]

The fool is you. I get it. You're a Hopkins fan.

Damn right, & if you knew the first thing about boxing so would you be.

It doesn't matter how long that he stayed at middleweight, he gradually moved to heavier weight classes naturally. He never fought anyone who outclassed him in size/weight, it was the other way around.

Yep, that is what you're meant to do. If you're SRL you may take on guys much bigger than you almost as a dare & if you're Duran you may end up fighting guys much bigger than you because the alternative would be eating & drinking sensibly, but what you just said is how boxers are meant to move between divisions.

He lost against the more powerful punchers.

We're just celebrating his victory over Felix Trinidad. With the possible exception of Julian Jackson, no MoFo ever has hit harder than Trinidad, well, maybe Bob Fitzsimmons or Sam Langford but there is no possible footage of them.

He got some of his biggest wins against smaller elite fighters, and he only beat two that were his size in their primes - Pavlik and Tarver.

Look up BoxRec, if you seriously don't think B-Hop beat top men then YDKSAB

Straight defense streaks mean nothing if you avoid the best, and get beat by fighters your own size.

But he didn't. So STFU.

you cant be serious. his middleweight defenses are atrocious.

trinidad did nothing at middleweight why do you rate that win so highly, trinidad was already outboxed by DLH who is way smaller than hopkins. Trinidad's middleweight career is beating joppy, big ***ing deal.


which names are your "top men" that hopkins beat? antwon echols x2? fighting robert allen for 3x for some reason? lmfao come on dude

[SouthpawRight]

Hop waa great in the ring and a weirdo, funny and sad outside. Beating Trinidad was a master piece. Stomping on the PR Flag in Puerto Rico was to die for. He had to jump from the second story to escape. I should have known, anybody who can outrun a hundred raging Puerto Ricans wasn't about to lose to one.

One thing that I really appreciated is when Hopkins as he said he was going to do, flew to Puerto Rico to apologize for throwing their flag down.

hood igga Bernard Hopkins

lol he had the funniest reason to be cool with Tito after the fight

“Puerto Ricans gave some black in them too”

[1Eriugenus]

Firstly, BHop beat everyone that was around at M/W. Secondly, Trinidad had beaten ODLH at 147 & was stepping up because he couldn't make 147 NoMo. Trinidad terrified everyone, he damn near murdered David Reid before almost decapitating Joppy. Most M/Ws, at that point, wouldn't have gone within 100 miles of Trinidad. He was one bad MoFo &, as I've said, one of the hardest punchers of all time. BHop took him on & tamed him. You won't give B-Hop credit because you're a schmuck but B-Hop deserves credit, massively.