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

[jayjames616]

B-Hop will school both of these guys. But the fights won't happen because of the networks.

[Ravens Fan]

Dawson always was and still is highly overrated. Bhop is smart so oif he ever fights either one it will be Stevenson. Not only because he believes he can beat him but also because he is the true champion. Bhop is also smart enough that he will never fight Kovalev, never.

[hitman smax]

Roy Jones is wrong. Hopkins has never faced a fighter like Kovalev: swarming, precise and poweful.

Hopkins is a lazy fighter that likes to tie up and pot shot. No chance of that against Kovalev. To beat Kovalev, Hopkins would have to man up and hope for the best.

Doubt he's even willing to try.

[ИATAS]

Roy Jones is wrong. Hopkins has never faced a fighter like Kovalev: swarming, precise and poweful.

Hopkins is a lazy fighter that likes to tie up and pot shot. No chance of that against Kovalev. To beat Kovalev, Hopkins would have to man up and hope for the best.

Doubt he's even willing to try.

Lazy is a horrible way to describe Hopkins. Obviously at his advanced age he's slowed down quite a bit but there is intelligence in what he does and he knows he has to fight at a slower pace because he's almost 50 years old.

[Light_Speed]

I agree with Roy....its levels to this game....Adonis and Frankenstein just made the game interesting by snatching belts by way of early KO's....but keep in mind that both Adonis and Frankenstein capitalized off the ******ity of Chad and Clev....B Hop is anything but a dumb fighter who will stand in front of dudes who can switch your lights out...smh

Campillo ain't ****** though and Kovalev blew him out the water. Stevenson can get neutralized fairly easily for a ring general like B-Hop but Kovalev is a different story, he's an explosive guy with a high workrate who fires hard punches with both hands from multiple angles. And he hits you in the clinches too. This is close to a toss up for me but I'm slightly leaning towards B-Hop.

[hitman smax]

Cleverly was a bigger challenge than Hopkins presents, and Kovalev made that work look easy.

[Jloro]

Roy Jones is wrong. Hopkins has never faced a fighter like Kovalev: swarming, precise and poweful.

Hopkins is a lazy fighter that likes to tie up and pot shot. No chance of that against Kovalev. To beat Kovalev, Hopkins would have to man up and hope for the best.

Doubt he's even willing to try.

lol you act like Kovalev is the ATG. No that is Bhop.
Kovalev and Stevensen have never faced anyone like Hopkins

[marvelousmatt]

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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Carl Froch whooped that ass. Froch beat Pascal.

[marvelousmatt]

Carl Froch whooped that ass. Froch beat Pascal.

I am a fan of B-Hop and he has had an ATG career, legendary !!! But right now at 48,he is much slower than he was and doesn't throw much. KOvalev and Stephensen would destroy him.

Carl Froch backed Pascal up that whole fight and easily landed combos. Froch has gotten better since that win and Pascal has regressed to a slapper--move back--and fight for the last 30 seconds of each round to try to steal the rounds.

Froch over Pascal :

116-112
117-111
118-110

None of the judges were British either. It was an EZ fight for Froch who totally dominated Pascal. Pascal after that fight said that he "was never hit that hard ever before.The better fighter won the fight ,Froch was better." Pascal was wobbled in the 7th, 9thand 11th badly.

The Pascal interview is on youtube at Froch-Pascal Part 8.

[deanrw]

I agree with Stevenson for sure. With Kovalev I am not sure, mainly because we do not know how good Kovalev is yet. We only see one part of his game, and so far it has been successful. According to his John David Jackson, there is much more depth to him, but he has not needed to access it yet.