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

[Weebler I]

LMAO, joking around? He got hit all night from the opening bell. If the fight was fixed then sure. It seemed that way with the score cards.

The whole fight was a joke. Hopkins was playing around throughout, trying to be entertaining to land a big fight.

Shumenov was training himself. Get real. WHo the **** had he beaten. Dude got a gift to get his belt against a club fighter.

Shumenov won his title against Campillo. Nevertheless, Hopkins took the fight seriously and schooled him.

[TLC8]

Kov Better Quiet Down His Talking; Bhop Is A Freak

I'm just saying..., you better bring more than just a punchers chance. Bhop has been in with a lot of guys that hit hard. Hopkins has forgotten a lot more than most guys learn in a career of Boxing. I won't be surprised if Kov runs out of gas by rounds 7 or 8, unable to land his thunder as well as he'd like, then Bhop gives him one helluva boxing lesson in 'greatness' to the finish, to put another to rest.

[twosweethooks]

I 'M Ready for some Crushin by the Crusher !!!

[beez721]

I'm just saying..., you better bring more than just a punchers chance. Bhop has been in with a lot of guys that hit hard. Hopkins has forgotten a lot more than most guys learn in a career of Boxing. I won't be surprised if Kov runs out of gas by rounds 7 or 8, unable to land his thunder as well as he'd like, then Bhop gives him one helluva boxing lesson in 'greatness' to the finish, to put another to rest.

its the slick boxers that have given hops trouble. he usually handles the flat footed punchers well but he may just be a little too old finally to pull this one off. mad props tho if he does

[kafkod]

Wow. Just wow. Theres a reason why calslappy never moved up weight and "retired" once the big names wanted to fight.

Calzaghe did move up in weight to fight BHop and he retired because he was 38 years old and had achieved everything he wanted to achieve as a fighter.

[Main Source]

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...

No he did not refuse any testings. Pascal shouted "Take the test! Take the test!" in broken English in a pre-fight press-conference a month before the fight. You don't pull that **** AFTER the contracts have been signed.

Pascal was shook.

[Citizen Koba]

Best wishes to Sergei and Natalyia on their prospective parenthood, but I can't help thinking it woulda been better if Krusher had kept it in his pants for another month or so...

[- Ram Raid -]

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."

"Can You hear the drums Fernando?" . . . . Are you looking for a job with the WBO!?! . . . "There was something in the air that night" . . . . 'Cause your scoring's ****e, Fernando!



. . . Nice trolling though

[boxingfocus]

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."

Er dude, you should watch that fight through again. Calzaghe was mostly missing - the HBO punch stats were so far out in this fight - and Hopkins was landing all the best punches.

If ever it was said that a fighter outworked another, this was it in a nutshell. Calzaghe won rounds where he barely scored a clean punch - and got caught many times - purely because he threw a lot of volume. I think Hopkins deserved the W, but you have to credit Calzaghe for not letting BHop slow him down as most other fighters do when they start missing like that.

What Joe did that was key was to be the first to the punch and smother Hopkins, which took that eye catching lead right away from him. A lot of BHop's best work was short inside fighting that is hard to spot unless you are on the correct side of the action. (Conversely, if you are throwing a lot of shots, from some angles they look like they land when they are actually blocked or missing.)

I don't buy the arguments about Hopkins dragging Calzaghe up in weight. BHop was a career middleweight, and Calzaghe a career super middle. They looked the same size.

[hitking]

Er dude, you should watch that fight through again. Calzaghe was mostly missing - the HBO punch stats were so far out in this fight - and Hopkins was landing all the best punches.

If ever it was said that a fighter outworked another, this was it in a nutshell. Calzaghe won rounds where he barely scored a clean punch - and got caught many times - purely because he threw a lot of volume. I think Hopkins deserved the W, but you have to credit Calzaghe for not letting BHop slow him down as most other fighters do when they start missing like that.

What Joe did that was key was to be the first to the punch and smother Hopkins, which took that eye catching lead right away from him. A lot of BHop's best work was short inside fighting that is hard to spot unless you are on the correct side of the action. (Conversely, if you are throwing a lot of shots, from some angles they look like they land when they are actually blocked or missing.)

I don't buy the arguments about Hopkins dragging Calzaghe up in weight. BHop was a career middleweight, and Calzaghe a career super middle. They looked the same size.