Comments Thread For: Roy Jones: Hopkins Beats Stevenson and Kovalev

[marvelousmatt]

Former four division world champion Roy Jones Jr. is tabbing 48-year-old IBF light heavyweight champion Bernard Hopkins to defeat both of the young gun punchers at 175-pounds, WBO champion Sergey Kovalev and WBC champion Adonis Stevenson. Jones, speaking with ATG Radio, said Hopkins will be too smart and execute a very safe strategy in order to win a twelve round decision.

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Roy really needs to stop smoking crack. Hopkins is old. He was dominated by Dawson and down twice to feather-fisted Pascal who only fights 30 seconds in each round. Kovalev and Stephensen aren't Cloud-type plodders. They both have skills to go along with their power.Both would easily defeat B-Hop at this atge in his career.

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Originally Posted by BIGPOPPAPUMP

Former four division world champion Roy Jones Jr. is tabbing 48-year-old IBF light heavyweight champion Bernard Hopkins to defeat both of the young gun punchers at 175-pounds, WBO champion Sergey Kovalev and WBC champion Adonis Stevenson. Jones, speaking with ATG Radio, said Hopkins will be too smart and execute a very safe strategy in order to win a twelve round decision.

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Roy really needs to stop smoking crack. Hopkins is old. He was dominated by Dawson and down twice to feather-fisted Pascal who only fights 30 seconds in each round. Kovalev and Stephensen aren't Cloud-type plodders. They both have skills to go along with their power.Both would easily defeat B-Hop at this atge in his career.

Anybody who can out**** Carl Froch is hardly featherfisted and if you think Stevenson and Kovalev are on the same skill level as Dawson as far as pure boxing and ring generalship then you are pretty damn slow.

Hopkins is playing it smart by keeping busy with Murat because at this age you cant risk long layoffs anymore. If he fights either of these two within 4-5 months of Murat I favor Hopkins.

Lets not forget Hopkins said hed fight Kovalev no problem before Kovalev cherry picked Cleverly because of HBO.

However if HBO locks in Kovalev and stevenson long term and Golden Boy stays beefing with HBO and Hopkins has to wait 8-12 months to fight them then id favor the age finally getting to Hopkins but it will be far from dominating but a close decision.


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[RawDawgHasSpokn]

The executioner has to be the favorite, especially against Stevenson.

[MDPopescu]

B-Hop should contemplate a legendary career theatrical conclusion.

Roy Jones should let people alone and speak for himself.

[A-Wolf]

Hopkins is obviously in a class above but are his reflexes good enough to keep him safe? I literally wouldn't bet on it.

[MDPopescu]

Hopkins is obviously in a class above but are his reflexes good enough to keep him safe? I literally wouldn't bet on it.

A responsible person would have had called B-Hop's protege, namely Andre Ward, into this context. I wonder why they don't mention Roy Jones himself in this one... Or even Ali...

[Straightener]

Anybody who can out**** Carl Froch is hardly featherfisted and if you think Stevenson and Kovalev are on the same skill level as Dawson as far as pure boxing and ring generalship then you are pretty damn slow.

Hopkins is playing it smart by keeping busy with Murat because at this age you cant risk long layoffs anymore. If he fights either of these two within 4-5 months of Murat I favor Hopkins.

Lets not forget Hopkins said hed fight Kovalev no problem before Kovalev cherry picked Cleverly because of HBO.

However if HBO locks in Kovalev and stevenson long term and Golden Boy stays beefing with HBO and Hopkins has to wait 8-12 months to fight them then id favor the age finally getting to Hopkins but it will be far from dominating but a close decision.


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pascal did not 'out****' froch he backed the *** up evertime they exchanged with solid shots

just saying

[mathed]

Hopkins is a legit ATG....he'll beat both guys, even at 48 years old.

[wja1966]

I would love to see Kovalev vs Adonis a 3 round bomb out until someone gets knocked out

[Tuavale]

Jones is so wrong

Hopkins would lose to either guy. Although I'd give him a better chance against Adonis because perhaps with his relative inexperience he could be duped by the Philly fraud. I could see Hopkins possibly opposing Adonis but no way would he ever enter the ring with Kovalev. Jones is right in the regard that Hopkins is supremely smart. And Hopkins knows he'd have absolutely no answers for the Krusher. Kovalev would stop Hopkins in 6 rounds.