Comments Thread For: Hopkins Hints Again at Desire to Face Floyd Mayweather

[La_Vibora]

floyd would not beat his ass, we have weight classes for a reason. isnt bhop 6 feet tall, floyd is fcking 5'7. this would be like oscar-hopkins.

if floyd moves up to beat bhop, nobody here can ever doubt his greatness

edit: floyd is 5'8 sorry

As someone who has stood next to Floyd on 3 different occassions, dude is really like 5'6

[Mr. Philadel]

Bernard Hopkins has spoken of it before, and he’s now bringing it up again: a potential fight with pound-for-pound and box-office king Floyd Mayweather.

“After I become light heavyweight champion again, if there’s one big fight out there and I think ‘50-50,’ he gets 50 wins, I turn 50, that’d be huge at 165, 170 pounds,” he said, a reference to Hopkins’ upcoming birthday in January 2015 and to Floyd Mayweather’s anticipated record of 49-0 once he reaches the end of his Showtime deal at the end of 2015.
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just **** up Adonis and Froch if Frankenstein still didn't figure out how to cross to street....and then sign out!!...let Floyd continue to do him....dude is a buck 50 soak and wet....BHop tripping!!!...smh

[Bushidō]

So basically:

Hopkins wants Mayweather
Stevenson wants Hopkins
Kovalev wants Stevenson

and we get none of these

[TintaBoricua]

Why...are...people...talking...about...this?

It's just Hopkins being funny and carrying on with an interview. They'll take anything and run with it.

I've said it several times before: This fight will never happen, and has no driving factor for it to happen.

Hopkins is NOT, at age 48-50, sweating down TWO weight classes to 160...a weight he hasn't fought in since Jermain Taylor back in 2005.

If that happens, he'll drop dead on the scales. If he goes into the ring, he'll be looking worse than Morales in his second fight with Pacquiao or De la Hoya versus Pacquiao. There's also hardly any financial incentive. Hopkins doesn't exactly have a fan friendly style and doesn't have a rabid fanbase.

If this fight ever gets signed, I'll change my avatar to something worse than what Queen Leia puts up.

[MoneyMayFan]

Hopkins will probably ask for 50-50 or 55-45 or something.

Yep hes been known to price himself out

[Kagami Taiga]

Let Kovalev take your titles then retire
I want the $0 I spent on that Shumenov fight back

The idea that kovalev takes anything is laughable. He's really not that good.

[MJ406]

^ right.

The theory is that if Cotto wins a title at 160 Floyd would get a freebie middleweight belt against a past it fighter he's already beaten, which isn't impossible... but the real problem with this theory is, why would he stick around and defend it?

A win by Cotto in June could certainly lead to another Mayweather fight, but Cotto has to get by Martinez first.

If Floyd is able to wrestle that title away from Cotto, I don't see why Floyd defending it or not really is much of an issue … as look how often Mayweather defended his 154 pound belts (no defenses, unless I'm mistaken)

in past Floyd has only fought north of Welterweight for big fights (De La Hoya, Cotto, Canelo)

it would be no different if Mayweather were to try Middleweight.

[Carpe Diem]

As someone who has stood next to Floyd on 3 different occassions, dude is really like 5'6

I doubt it. He's definitely short, but he's definitely taller than 5'6". If Floyd is 5'6", then Marquez is 5'5", Manny is 5'4", and Bradley is 5'4". No way.

[White_Knight]

He won't get past Stevenson anyway.

[Porter's Dad]

It's a damn shame Rigo, Hopkins and Ward aren't around Floyd's weight range. It would be amazing to see him in with similarly gifted fighters.