Comments Thread For: Felix Trinidad Comes Clean on 'Why' He Lost To Hopkins

[Hex-One]

Tito had allot of personal problems leading up to the fight. He couldnt sleep thinking about his mistakes and of course his family. Would the outcome have been any different? I personally dont think so but we will never know. Hopkins refused to give him the rematch.

[Hex-One]

Tito is my favorite boxer of all times but I just dont see him beating Bhop,Im sure all that affected him but Bhop would have done a number either way,maybe not by knockout but definetly he would have ud Tito IMO

I agree but we will never know how much he was affected with all the personal crap happening to him. Think about it this way, Jermain Taylor beat Hopkins 2 times and he isnt the same caliber fighter a prime Tito is.

[machotime]

are you guys serious trinidad lost cause hopkins was the better man. i mean really ODLH beat him. fernando vargas (being so freaken young) dropped him.evidently hopkins was gonna win that fight regardless. these are all excuses from tito.

WOW- your top fighters list has to be a joke...


As an aside.... Tito lost to BHop bc BHop is a smarter, bigger fighter. BHop started his career at middleweight, Tito started his at JWW... 3 weight classes below BHop... Furthermore, BHop was a defensive wizard. And as far as Vargas knocking him down, what does that have to do with Tito's skills? Tito was knocked down by quite a few fighters in the first couple rounds... but he recovered and knocked them the **** out... like he did Vargas. Vargas was never the same after that fight... actually, after that left hook that nearly decapitated him.

[djtmal]

WOW- your top fighters list has to be a joke...


As an aside.... Tito lost to BHop bc BHop is a smarter, bigger fighter. BHop started his career at middleweight,

actually started his career at lightheavy

[machotime]

actually started his career at lightheavy

ah, yes... good point... which supports the fact that BHop was naturally a much bigger guy than Tito.

[djtmal]

ah, yes... good point... which supports the fact that BHop was naturally a much bigger guy than Tito.

not only was he much bigger, but far stronger...he could have just walked tito down and probably would have got the ko within 6 rounds...

[BoxerXL]

They are probalby planning a rematch, Hopkins vs Trinidad 2

[djtmal]

They are probalby planning a rematch, Hopkins vs Trinidad 2

it still would be a natural lightheavy fighting a guy who just couldn't cut it above 154

[mexicali]

I knew there was controversy on the hand wraps of TITO on the hopkins fight. But after reading that article it does raise an eyebrow

[machotime]

I knew there was controversy on the hand wraps of TITO on the hopkins fight. But after reading that article it does raise an eyebrow

afterwards BHop admits that it was a game to distract Tito... he admitted that the plan was to have them rewrap the hands close to fight time.... an unecessary distraction... a strategy that was typical of BHop.