Originally posted by cupocity303
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As I said before, so what if Tito was favoured to beat him? Just because a lot of people thought something it doesn't make it true. How was Tito expected to win that fight? Hopkins has never been koed. He is the much bigger and stronger fighter and he is a much better boxer than Tito. Hopkins is class A boxer, while Tito is a class B boxer.
The p4p rankings are an imaginary system, which assume that all fighters are the same size, which they are not in real life.So they are at best a guide and nothing more
Originally posted by cupocity303
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Originally posted by cupocity303
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Which is why Hopkins wanted nothing to do with him, when Calzaghe offered him a fight back in 2003.
Pavlik is a 1d puncher, who basically has a jab and straight right hand. He is a class C boxer at best, made to order for an elite counter puncher like Hopkins. Or to put it another way, he is the complete opposite to Calzaghe
In fact a lot of knowledgeable fans thought that Pavlik was going to lose, the Hopkins-Johnson fight comes to mind.
If Hopkins wanted to prove the world wrong, why didnt he face someone in his own division instead? Why fight a guy from two divisions below him?
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At the day of the fight, Pavlik came into the fight at 171, only one pound over the 170 pound catch-weight, whereas Hopkins reportedly re-hydrated up to 187, which gave him a 16 pound weight advantage. As such, Hopkins was pretty much a cruiserweight going up against a slender light heavyweight in Pavlik.
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