If Hopkins Beats Taylor...

[Truth]

If B-hop defeats Jermain Taylor I think the boxing community should give him the respect he deserves. I don't want to hear after the fight that Taylor was too young, thats not Bernard's problem. Hopkins deserves all the respect in the world for taking this fight, he is fighting #1 middleweight prospect at 40 years old. If Bernard wins even if its not exciting thats an incredible feat in my opinion. How will you view Bernard Hopkins if he is victorious come July 16th? I will view him as one of the greatest fighters of all time and an all time great athlete in general.

[neils7147933]

Even if he loses to Taylor, he should be respected for a brilliant career and Middleweight Champion reign.

Beating the heir apparent would just be icing on the cake.

[Truth]

Even if he loses to Taylor, he should be respected for a brilliant career and Middleweight Champion reign.

Beating the heir apparent would just be icing on the cake.

I agree...

[Truth]

Everything for Hopkins at this point is icing on the cake, he could easily just retire now.

[Tha Greatest]

Hopkins will beat Taylor in dominant fashion

not domininant as knock him out but as in a technical fight

I think Taylor will put up a good fight to

I think Taylor will be very hungry

[czars_salad]

Even if he loses to Taylor, he should be respected for a brilliant career and Middleweight Champion reign.

Beating the heir apparent would just be icing on the cake.

i agree, being at the top of your game and being the champ for a decade, is just too much of an achievement to be ignored.

[Manny_P]

Ima give him his dues if he wins convincingly. No controversies no nuthin. If he wins by KO, even betta!

WTF? This pointless cuz ma man Taylor will whoop him! Taylor might have too much respect to knockout Hopkins (he dont want B-Hop embarrased) so I think he'll win by UD!

[Truth]

Hopkins will beat Taylor in dominant fashion

not domininant as knock him out but as in a technical fight

I think Taylor will put up a good fight to

I think Taylor will be very hungry

I swear if I hear Larry Merchant making fun of Hopkins for dominating Taylor I am going to be pissed. Has anyone else noticed that HBO down plays great performances? I hate that

[Hisoka]

Win or lose, I have a huge amount of respect for Hopkins. Taking this kind of fight in this stage of his career takes a lot of balls. I think he'll win, but it won't be crowd pleasing.

[FrankJack]

Hopkins should've been gettin respect a while back. Whoever doesn't respect him bynow, it's not really worth trying to prove why he's good.