How Can You Hate Bernard Hopkins?

[gauze]

i think he's a pretty funny dude. not always the most entertaining fighter in the ring and i don't always root for him but i can't hate a guy who's given me so many chuckles over the years. for example...smacking jay nady in the balls during the 2nd (i think) taylor fight

[iNDOLiFER]

how can u hate manny pacman??

[djtmal]

People do not like technical skill. In other words they are ******s and don't realize Hopkins is a once in a lifetime person.

this is this most ******ed statement i've ever read here...always makes it seem like nard is the cleanest technical fighter in the sport when its obvious most don't care for all the dirty tactics he employs...not to mention that he was a scaled down lightheavy who made a career out of beating up smaller men...

[Joe2608]

He's a very dirty fighter who has also spent his career fighting blown up guys. Plus he never shuts up when he loses, i'd like to see him lose and accept it for once instead of whining about it. I thought his actions in the Calzaghe fight were very low and it showed desperation from a fighter who could not compete with his competition, he tried to cheat by diving on the floor like a ***** and rolling around because for once someone gave him a bit of dirty fighting back, the old saying 'if you can't take it then don't dish it out' springs to mind.

No doubt he has accomplished a lot and should go down in boxing history as a great fighter, but he acts like a child sometimes especially with all this i'm a thug from the streets bollocks it's just pathetic. You would have thought he would have grown up and grown out of that rubbish by the age of 45.

For the best part of his career i respected him but this latter stage has just annoyed me. Tbh i don't care if he beat Pascal or not, why didn't he fight Chad Dawson when he had the belts? Why did he wait for a weaker fighter to come along which was easier to beat. I bet you he doesn't fight Dawson if/when he beats Pascal in the rematch.

[djtmal]

He's a very dirty fighter who has also spent his career fighting blown up guys. Plus he never shuts up when he loses, i'd like to see him lose and accept it for once instead of whining about it. I thought his actions in the Calzaghe fight were very low and it showed desperation from a fighter who could not compete with his competition, he tried to cheat by diving on the floor like a ***** and rolling around because for once someone gave him a bit of dirty fighting back, the old saying 'if you can't take it then don't dish it out' springs to mind.

No doubt he has accomplished a lot and should go down in boxing history as a great fighter, but he acts like a child sometimes especially with all this i'm a thug from the streets bollocks it's just pathetic. You would have thought he would have grown up and grown out of that rubbish by the age of 45.

For the best part of his career i respected him but this latter stage has just annoyed me. Tbh i don't care if he beat Pascal or not, why didn't he fight Chad Dawson when he had the belts? Why did he wait for a weaker fighter to come along which was easier to beat. I bet you he doesn't fight Dawson if/when he beats Pascal in the rematch.

he probably would have been easier to stomach if he didn't whine so much when he loses...sportsmanship isn't one of his better traits