Comments Thread For: Hopkins Makes History Again, Beats Cloud For IBF Title

[White_Knight]

If people think he gets himself into the condition where he can beat the division's best at 48 by eating celery sticks and jumping rope they are very naive.

[TheGoldenChamp]

Big De la Hoya fan. Hated Hopkins when he beat Oscar. When Bhop signed with Golden Boy and bought stock into the company, I started following his fights!!! After he schooled the young undefeated buck Pavlik, I became a fan!!! Was astounded with what he did to Pascal !!! And now this slick victory over Cloud !!!! This guy is the greatest inspiration for all the 30 n 40 something year olds out there, heck even the 50 something year olds. The guy keeps defying father time!!!

[PowerFlow]

Masterful performance by B-Hop. Very happy for him.

[I Love Jesus!]

Of course most B-hop fans cannot get over the fact that Joe beat him and your post prove that.

Most Calzaghe fans can't get over the fact that he slaps like a girl and is seen as a joke.

[Marcov]

Yeah. Kind of stating the obvious?

Yeah but the obvious often escapes posters here. Very often!

[RSBonos]

Easy to say in hindsight that the Hopkins win was easy to predict. You can't predict how a 48 year old will react in a prizefight. If everyone here was so certain you should have bet and made money...i did

[RSBonos]

B-Hop fan here but this record of winning the title is diluted by the fact that he is fighting in a time where there are four champions per division. Archie Moore won the undisputed title, Foreman won the linear title Hopkins beating a average titlist like Cloud does not rank up there.

He beat the undisputed champion when he was 46 (which is the all time RECORD) and tonight he beat a top 5 fighter in a division without a champion (Dawson doesn't deserve it lineal or not).

B-Hop #1 at LHW baby.

He would beat Cleverly and Shumenov would be easy money. Just stay away from the scary Russian.

[Light_Speed]

B-Hop fan here but this record of winning the title is diluted by the fact that he is fighting in a time where there are four champions per division. Archie Moore won the undisputed title, Foreman won the linear title Hopkins beating a average titlist like Cloud does not rank up there.

Good point but this also applies to Pacquiao's record of winning titles in 8 divisions.

[ROSS CALIFORNIA]

Amazing being able to witness history like this.

[LA_2_Vegas]

Can't believe he still has that footwork. I'm reluctant to call it a masterpiece performance because he made it look so routine, he didn't even have to bring out the expensive brushes or special paint. There were some blueprints on Cloud but damn he figured him out very early. LOL I guess the old man just keeps on going then, he looked fine.