Hopkins Mistake

[gdblstx]

If you think BH needs a gift decision, you automatically just said he got beat, and needed intervention to gaurantee a win. SO basically, you just said, he got beat by JT and woulda won only if the judges helped him. Not by himself? HMMMMMM,

[Zeroflip1]

If you think BH needs a gift decision, you automatically just said he got beat, and needed intervention to gaurantee a win. SO basically, you just said, he got beat by JT and woulda won only if the judges helped him. Not by himself? HMMMMMM,

I don't know how I can respond to this. Lets see. Do I think B-hop should get a gift decision, well I like b-hop, so it would be a biased staement.

I always want to see him win, the fight was just so close it could have gone either way, and I think it should have went to Hopkins.

[gdblstx]

If he would have started pounding those right hands off JT 1 rd earlier, he would have.

[Zeroflip1]

If he would have started pounding those right hands off JT 1 rd earlier, he would have.

We are in agreement on that.

[BigIppoFireworks]

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.

yes they are worth the same... but usually the refs see those rounds as significant rounds... ITS NOT ME... i dont see it that way. It's the refs. I obviously thought that Tito got whooped... but he got the decision because those later rounds are significant... and Oscar learned that the hard way.

but they are called Championship rounds for a reason.. u cant expect to win the first 7 and cruise the rest of the way... I'm in the old school of thought of where... if you're in the boxing ring you're trying to inflict damage on the opponent... not WIN rounds...

Rounds / Scorecards / Decisions should be after the fact of trying to hurt each other. Now the 1st round is worth the same as the 12th round in POINTS but not in significance...

The fact is in the later rounds Jermain had no juice in the tank. A real champion can go the distance. That's just the point I'm trying to make.

[gdblstx]

He did go the distance. So i guess your saying he is not a real champ now or what?

[Zeroflip1]

He did go the distance. So i guess your saying he is not a real champ now or what?

He didn't deny that he went late, he is just saying he had no juice while hopkins still did.

[gdblstx]

I agree 100% BH had a lot of juice left. Hell he dint start fighting till the 8th round. Ithink he woulda been worn out too if he fought as much as JT did.