The overrated Bernard Hopkins

[Method Checker]

Question: what do DLH, Trinidad, Wright and Pavlik have in common?

Answer: They were all smaller fighters than Hopkins, but they're his greatest wins.

The best fighter he ever beat besides smaller fighters was Tarver. As some of you may know, Tarver was weight-drained, due to the fact that he just finished filming a Rocky Movie and had to cut weight fast.

He exposed by a man the same size in Jermain Taylor and then once again by a smaller fighter in Calzaghe.

I don't doubt that he was a solid middleweight champion but to consider him one of the greatest fighters of the last decade is absurd.

Now, he's fighting the man that gave him the most decisive beating of his career in Roy Jones. Except now Jones is beyond past his prime and was just knocked out by a contender-like fighter.

Way to seal your legacy, Hopkins!

[Championart]

If you think Hopkins is overrated you need to delete thread promptly and stop watching boxing asap.

[Toney Loc]

Tito stopped Joppy, a fighter Hopkins decisioned, prior to fighting Hopkins and was also favored to beat Hopkins. Hopkins also weighed in less than Tito.

[talip bin osman]

hey checker... good day man...

whats with all these "overrated" threads u are having lately?

[Method Checker]

Tito stopped Joppy, a fighter Hopkins decisioned, prior to fighting Hopkins and was also favored to beat Hopkins. Hopkins also weighed in less than Tito.

Who was the naturally smaller fighter?

hey checker... good day man...

whats with all these "overrated" threads u are having lately?

Just stating my opinion.

[Toney Loc]

Who was the naturally smaller fighter

Does it matter? No, Hopkins was the better fighter that night. Did it matter that Hopkins was the naturally smaller fighter against Antonio Tarver?

[Toney Loc]

If Tarver was so weight-drained, he wouldn't have bet 500K on himself to win by KO.

[Method Checker]

Does it matter? No, Hopkins was the better fighter that night. Did it matter that Hopkins was the naturally smaller fighter against Antonio Tarver?

Trinidad was useless without his power wraps, anyways. Tarver was weight-drained and anyone who denies it needs help.

[Toney Loc]

Trinidad was useless without his power wraps, anyways.

I wasted my time then.

Tarver was weight-drained and anyone who denies it needs help.

If Tarver was so weight-drained, he wouldn't have bet 500K on himself to win by KO.

[djtmal]

Tito stopped Joppy, a fighter Hopkins decisioned, prior to fighting Hopkins and was also favored to beat Hopkins. Hopkins also weighed in less than Tito.

joppy was tailer made for tito honestly...

even at middleweight hopkins was always a lightheavy...a freak of nature lightheavy who scaled down to middle, and enjoyed unfair height, size, strength, etc. advantages over fighters like simon brown, bo jackson, robert allen, antuan (sp) echols, and the list goes on...best win on hopkins resume is an unfocused tarver who was hanging out with stallone on movie sets...

hopkins may have weighed less than tito on the official scales, but you can tell he was far bigger and stronger come fight time..., even though he followed the boxing blueprint on tito that de la hoya used, hopkins was more than capable to streetfight tito early...he really didn't have to worry about tito hurting him...agreed hopkins is overrated...