Hopkins Mistake

[Pac Man Fan 83]

The fact of the matter is a lot of you seem to think that winning the 11th and 12th rounds is more important than winning the 1st and 2nd rounds, but in reality, it is not.

The rounds are not weighted to give an advantage to the guy who wins the late rounds. On a scorecard, the first round counts just as much as the last round.

[gdblstx]

I can feel it,
coming in the air tonight...........What an entry song.....told the story right there.

[tito4life216]

I also think Hopkins probably thought that the "KID" wasnt doing anything special to TAKE the title away.. So Hopkins fought in a non-chalant manner in the beginning... I mean if you're a judge you have to give this fight a draw... because you dont just erase a decade of domination AND give the undisputed middleweight championship to someone who cant sprint to the finish line...

Other than starting late nobody is talking about B-Hop's technical mistakes... because he hardly made any...

AMEN. Couldn't have said it better.

[gdblstx]

Champs are not entitled to anything...got to earn it and keep it, not rest on your laurels. Thats what pissed me off about Oscar. Fight all 12 rounds.

[Zeroflip1]

Champs are not entitled to anything...got to earn it and keep it, not rest on your laurels. Thats what pissed me off about Oscar. Fight all 12 rounds.

Thats true, but after 10 years if anyone deserves a ****in gift dicision its not mosleys', or titos', or oscars' its ****in BHOP.

[gdblstx]

Well, if you look at it that way tito.....once a champ, as long as you can go the distance, you never lose? WTF? 10 years dont mean crap! Are you so biased that you would pre judge a fight based on past history? C'mon, he lost early. Not denying he would have cleaned the floor up with him if he started earlier. He didnt. Guess what? HE LOST! 10 yrs, 20 defenses, wooptedo. He did not look like it tonight did he. Can you honestly say, he looked like the icon you have built him up to be? Not tonight. And I like BH. He just lost.

[IwatchBoxing]

Hopkins mistake was fighting Taylor, peroid.

[Zeroflip1]

Well, if you look at it that way tito.....once a champ, as long as you can go the distance, you never lose? WTF? 10 years dont mean crap! Are you so biased that you would pre judge a fight based on past history? C'mon, he lost early. Not denying he would have cleaned the floor up with him if he started earlier. He didnt. Guess what? HE LOST! 10 yrs, 20 defenses, wooptedo. He did not look like it tonight did he. Can you honestly say, he looked like the icon you have built him up to be? Not tonight. And I like BH. He just lost.

I didn't mean it as in a if you can go the distance only, he started slow, how many ****in boxers do that and still pull it off, Hopkins won, yes I am biased, I admit it.

[gdblstx]

NOBODY DESERVES A GIFT DECISION! Do you realise what you just said? If he would have lost all 12 rounds.....instead of the7 he did, would you still agree he should have won because he is a 10 yr champ? When does it end? 15 yrs....25yrs, hell as long as he doesnt go down he always wins?

[IwatchBoxing]

NOBODY DESERVES A GIFT DECISION! Do you realise what you just said? If he would have lost all 12 rounds.....instead of the7 he did, would you still agree he should have won because he is a 10 yr champ? When does it end? 15 yrs....25yrs, hell as long as he doesnt go down he always wins?

Thats how they see it with Hopkins, DLH, Castillo, Chavez ect ect., you'll get use to it.