Bernard Hopkins fights with a lot of exchanges

[Toney616]

In a lot of the Hopkins fights I have watched he tends to throw one or two punches than smothesr. Can anyone recommend me some fights were he stands in front of his opponents and exchanges punches without holding afterwards?

Has he ever been in an exchanges like the ones in Toney-McCallum I?

[SplitSecond]

watching that video reminds me of an interview i was just listening to with roy jones where he says hopkins doesn't have any skills, he just throws one punch then leads with his head and smothers you following with illegal blows and acting for breaks

[Toney Loc]

Haven't seen it in a while but the Antwun Echols II fight had a couple of good exchanges.

[Toney616]

watching that video reminds me of an interview i was just listening to with roy jones where he says hopkins doesn't have any skills, he just throws one punch then leads with his head and smothers you following with illegal blows and acting for breaks

That's what I have noticed in a lot of his fights. He never throws a punch, slips a punch then throws another punch. Its always one punch then smother.

[Toney616]

Haven't seen it in a while but the Antwun Echols II fight had a couple of good exchanges.

Thanks. It's been a while since Ive seen that fight. Off to check it out now

[SplitSecond]

besides the pascal fight, hopkins pavlik was good, hopkins trinidad i thought was good and the taylor fights were alright imo too

but then again, i also really liked the hop-jones fight which everyone considers boring

[Toney Loc]

That's what I have noticed in a lot of his fights. He never throws a punch, slips a punch then throws another punch. Its always one punch then smother.

That's Hopkins of now. Hopkins of old, which is ironically young Hopkins, threw more combinations and clinched alot less.

[Toney616]

besides the pascal fight, hopkins pavlik was good, hopkins trinidad i thought was good and the taylor fights were alright imo too

but then again, i also really liked the hop-jones fight which everyone considers boring

I have to watch the Pavlik, Tito fights again. But what should be pointed out is that those guys were 1d punchers with average handspeed so he could afford to let his hands go against those kind of opponents.

His offense was terrible in the Taylor fights especially during the first 8 rounds of both fights. Lead right hand then smother

[ИATAS]

Obviously he's had to adjust his style as he's got older. This is just basic common sense. You cant expect a 40 something year old guy to sit in front of the opponent and trade blows.

The only guy that I can think of that does that is Glen Johnson.

Watch Hopkins fights when he was younger, he fought a lot differently.

But even when he's older, he smothers based on the style he's fighting. Against Pascal and Pavlik, he doesn't need to smother. Against Calzaghe he smothered because Calzaghe has such an extremely high workrate. Against Winky he smothered to take away Winky's best weapon which is his jab.

[Toney616]

That's Hopkins of now. Hopkins of old, which is ironically young Hopkins, threw more combinations and clinched alot less.

Even during his prime he would fight the same way against awkward opponents like John David Jackson and Joe Lipsey. He would throw the right hand lead then smother and hit them with body shots