Comments Thread For: Bernard Hopkins: This is The Biggest Fight of The Year

[E. O. Wilson]

In a day, this won't have 1/10th the comments as Floydie/Maidana or Pac/Algieri... so no Bernard, you're just an old blowhard who gets more boring every day. You like to go on and on blabbering way too much. You fight well, albeit with way too many clinches, but you should concentrate on fighting, not talking.

As for the fight, it goes to Kov within 6, or to BHop if it's a decision. Kov HAS to be more aggressive than ever in this one.

This is still a better fight than both of those. Floyd and Manny could fight blowup dolls and it would be huge. They are celebrities more than fighters nowadays. Can't fairly compare.

[Hougigo]

sure is right now. 3 belts on the line

[mike gonzalez]

Hopkins plan A, clinch, plan B, clinch

I want to see a boxing match, not wrestling, by Hopkins.

[DondiNeverLeft]

WBA/IBF light heavyweight champion Bernard Hopkins (55-6-2, 32KOs), 49-years-young, is knee deep in training for his unification with WBO kingpin Sergey Kovalev (25-0-1, 23KOs). Their fight is set for November 8th at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City. HBO will televised.

Three titles at stake, and either the historic career of Hopkins will come to a close and the legend of Kovalev will grow - or Hopkins will once again shock the critics by defeating another fighter who is viewed as the next big thing.
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Kovalev need to be Maidoness to win this.
No respect for the HOF legend and get very physical and dirty if need be. Break out of clinches with furious abandon and just throw punches.

If not rounds will go by and BHop will win a boring slow paced fight.

[Citizen Koba]

Well, for me it's certainly one of the most significant. OK Pac and Floyd certainly bring the bigger viewership but this 3 title unifier between the 2 and 3 in the division takes it for me. The up and coming murderous puncher vs the wily old veteran has epic written all over it.

Both Pac - Algieri and Floyd - Maidana hold a certain fascination but I think in both cases the frontrunner is easily picked.

With Hopkins - Kovalev it genuinely is up in the air. I'm pretty sure Kovalev will be the betting favourite but Hopkins has defied time (and the odds) so many times he's gained an almost mythical status.

LOL @BHops saying they're not doing it PPV so that everyone can afford to watch though. At the end of the day no-one at LHW is PPV popular, sadly, but for me this is the still the most intriguing fight of the year so far.

[bigjavi973]

This is gonna be a great fight! Can't wait, get ya popcorn ready!

[skinnystev]

popkins was down 3 times vs the light punching pascal popkins is canvas ready and will fall early

[bigjavi973]

When one of the biggest fights coming up involves current Hopkins, you know it's a shitty year for the sport.

Word that is kinda sad. But then you have some people that LOVE the job al haymon is doing.

[bigjavi973]

In a day, this won't have 1/10th the comments as Floydie/Maidana or Pac/Algieri... so no Bernard, you're just an old blowhard who gets more boring every day. You like to go on and on blabbering way too much. You fight well, albeit with way too many clinches, but you should concentrate on fighting, not talking.

As for the fight, it goes to Kov within 6, or to BHop if it's a decision. Kov HAS to be more aggressive than ever in this one.

agreed. He would have to swarm him with punches, but not to get too close so bhop wont hold him.

[Bushbaby]

Sure is, the fighting atg greatest at 50 takes on the most feared fighter in boxing.