Is Bernard Hopkins overrated?

[IMDAZED]

brush up on your 3rd grade reading...i didn't mention s**t about sturm...

it was common knowledge that he had the option to fight wright or taylor after eastman...he chose taylor...his ballickers gave the excuse that wright was too high of a risk for too little of a reward...we see why because wright damn near beat him at his worst weight...

You win. He ducked him.

[Pugilistic™]

brush up on your 3rd grade reading...i didn't mention s**t about sturm...

it was common knowledge that he had the option to fight wright or taylor after eastman...he chose taylor...his ballickers gave the excuse that wright was too high of a risk for too little of a reward...we see why because wright damn near beat him at his worst weight...

So say he chose to fight Wright,

Would that mean he was ducking Taylor ?

[Benncollinsaad]

He chose to fight Winky at 170. How more cowardish do you get?? He knew Winky was not a big puncher at 160, yet he had to make him fight at 170! And he still couldn't win the fight, not clearly.

[djtmal]

So say he chose to fight Wright,

Would that mean he was ducking Taylor ?

no...everybody knew taylor was green as grass and wright was the bigger threat...especially at 160 where wright would only have moved up 5lbs., but classic nard, he made wright move up two divisions and look like the michelin man...

[IMDAZED]

no...everybody knew taylor was green as grass and wright was the bigger threat...especially at 160 where wright would only have moved up 5lbs., but classic nard, he made wright move up two divisions and look like the michelin man...

I can't argue with this to be honest. I was stunned he took the Taylor fight as the guy clearly wasn't ready. And Wright at 35 and 170 is not much of a win.

[Rabbit ♠]

I like Bhop but to me he's like the Ric Flair of boxing

[ИATAS]

BHop IMO dodged a few fighters Winky Ottke Sturm Adamek. But he is still one of the best ever top 10 P4P over the last 20 years. Its a really really good thing he never fought Adamek cause BHop would have gotten his ass whooped

Big LOL at bhop ducking Ottke and Sturm. hahahahaha, that just throws all of your credibility out the window.

The adamek fight was close to happening but HBO wouldn't release their budget for 2010 in time to accept the fight (both hopkins and adamek agreed to fight). Adamek, rather than waiting on HBO's verdict, decided to fight Golota instead. And rightfully so, as I'm sure he made a lot of money in the biggest fight Poland has had in years, if not ever.

And please, don't say Winky.

[djtmal]

I can't argue with this to be honest. I was stunned he took the Taylor fight as the guy clearly wasn't ready. And Wright at 35 and 170 is not much of a win.

thank you....anybody who tries to come up with an excuse for this is truly delusional..

[joartcc5]

Hopkins is a bit overrated. Only slightly.

He's easily lose to Jones or Calzaghe at any time in his career.

The bad style matchups for him are guys which are just as big as him but faster.

[Heru]

Pavlik was sick going into the fight.

Like most of Bernard's opponents, Kelly moved up from a smaller weight division to face B-Hop.

A 6 foot 2 inch middleweight with a huge ko ratio that has to starve himself to make 160.

Just like the clowns trying to degrade the Trinidad win... Ridiculous.