Comments Thread For: Kovalev Not Focused on KO, But Aims To 'Crush' Hopkins

[damned1974]

I've haven't been impressed with Hopkins as much as other people. His best wins came against smaller fighters who weren't real Middleweights. He lost to JT twice, and he refused to take random-blood testing against Pascal. He still hasn't been tested for a fight btw.

I'm sure Kovalev would have demanded random-blood testing if he thought B-Hop would have accepted and not ducked the fight...

Don't be surprised if Hopkins schools him...he will go from being Sergey to SIR GHEY

[MisanthropicNY]

yea,,,those little slaps really battered hopkins. get a clue dude. hops lost a close fight

Hopkins lost 11 rounds to 1 that fight lol. Lol @ this myth that Hopkins was competitive against Calzaghe. Hopkins doesn't engage, so that makes it very easy to never be KOed. Go review the fight and look at the punch stats, Hopkins should be shot for throwing so few punches and making over a million for that fight. I'm sure you're one of those "enlightened" boxing fans who thinks running away and not engaging is "Ring Generalship."

[parrish duke]

Crazy how the enormity of the moment is creeping up on Kovalev. Hopkins is business as usual. Kovalev is a tough SOB, but Bhop is a tougher one, and its funny how many haters Bhop has - lol - and the man is 49 years old, and this fight is a toss up - he is 18 - 19 years older than his opponent and the fight is damn near even??? people get so caught up in hating the man that they do not even realize that they can speak on history, they can say hey I saw when he beat such and such at 46 years old - he is 3 years older than that - embrace the Alien win lose or Draw, his career is in its final stages, possibly this fight and one more at 50!!!!! to be undisputed?????? can you say top 20 of all time ........with the hate sprinkled on top...

[LouIE G]

Calzaghe destoryed Hopkins???lol..i agree he won..but come on man...Calzaghe destroyed Jeff Lacy that we can agree on

Jeff who??? Lol

[parrish duke]

Hopkins lost 11 rounds to 1 that fight lol. Lol @ this myth that Hopkins was competitive against Calzaghe. Hopkins doesn't engage, so that makes it very easy to never be KOed. Go review the fight and look at the punch stats, Hopkins should be shot for throwing so few punches and making over a million for that fight. I'm sure you're one of those "enlightened" boxing fans who thinks running away and not engaging is "Ring Generalship."

Naw Hopkins will never lose 11 rounds to 1, but I felt he did lose that fight, - he looked old in that fight. Why bring up a fighter that if you want to hate on Mayweather, shyt Calzaghe was the worst! the only threat he fought in his prime was Kesseler, and of course you will rebuttal with Jeffrey Lacy. Calzaghe was good, but we will never know if he was great - Froch has surpassed him. Not sure if you know what ring generalship is - here is a quick tour - (Hopkins vs Pavlik / vs Shumenov / vs tarver / vs Cloud / vs pascal / vs Trinidad / vs glen Johnson / just to name a few - the man is 49 years old, relevant, and is 50 / 50 against arguable the best - and you want to bring up Cal slappy - who made his run once he felt the big names where beatable and no longer a threat....

[MisanthropicNY]

Naw Hopkins will never lose 11 rounds to 1, but I felt he did lose that fight, - he looked old in that fight. Why bring up a fighter that if you want to hate on Mayweather, shyt Calzaghe was the worst! the only threat he fought in his prime was Kesseler, and of course you will rebuttal with Jeffrey Lacy. Calzaghe was good, but we will never know if he was great - Froch has surpassed him. Not sure if you know what ring generalship is - here is a quick tour - (Hopkins vs Pavlik / vs Shumenov / vs tarver / vs Cloud / vs pascal / vs Trinidad / vs glen Johnson / just to name a few - the man is 49 years old, relevant, and is 50 / 50 against arguable the best - and you want to bring up Cal slappy - who made his run once he felt the big names where beatable and no longer a threat....

Froch has surpassed Calzaghe lol? You're crazy... Andre Ward is lucky Calzaghe isn't around still... We'll leave it at that...

Why would you bring up Mayweather? Nobody even mentioned Mayweather js... Calzaghe and Mayweather are pretty similar, but Calzaghe never had a Pacquiao-type fighter in the same division and just blatantly do everything to make it more difficult to make the fight... Calzaghe had Jeff Lacy whom everyone said he was ducking and then Kessler... Roy Jones and HOpkins were not in the same division as Calazaghe during their primes... Pacquiao has been in the same division as Mayweather for a while now..

[bojangles1987]

Hopkins lost 11 rounds to 1 that fight lol. Lol @ this myth that Hopkins was competitive against Calzaghe. Hopkins doesn't engage, so that makes it very easy to never be KOed. Go review the fight and look at the punch stats, Hopkins should be shot for throwing so few punches and making over a million for that fight. I'm sure you're one of those "enlightened" boxing fans who thinks running away and not engaging is "Ring Generalship."

I sure hope you're joking. 11 to 1.

[hitking]

X is trying his damnedest to hand Father Time his first L. But eventually, FT has to get him, I think. That said, if it doesn't, I really don't see anything in Kovalev's game that is gonna bother Nard all that much. Kovalev's bandwagon jumpers are basically the same dip****s that have GGG rated ahead of Ray Robinson as the all-time P4P King. But Kovalev can't carry GGG's jock when it comes to skill level. Not only that. In his last two fights he's been dropped due to bad balance. And was noticeably uncomfortable with the rough stuff in the Agnew fight. I'm sure Nard is well aware of all of this, which is why he wanted the fight. Unless Nard has a considerable drop off. I think he's gonna skool this boy and make him look silly.

[hitking]

Hopkins lost 11 rounds to 1 that fight lol. Lol @ this myth that Hopkins was competitive against Calzaghe. Hopkins doesn't engage, so that makes it very easy to never be KOed. Go review the fight and look at the punch stats, Hopkins should be shot for throwing so few punches and making over a million for that fight. I'm sure you're one of those "enlightened" boxing fans who thinks running away and not engaging is "Ring Generalship."

Next level ******ity

[Weebler I]

You need to go into this mean, Sergey. Don't play Hopkins's game.

SK doesn't gaf, he fights like a wild man. I don't see him taking a cautious approach out of respect.