Comments Thread For: Not making that mistake again: Hopkins beats Kovalev

[MDPopescu]

He had Alvarez cowering in the corner at one point. I think Mayweather was hitting the ginger plenty hard.

Canelo was (and is) an innocent kid.
Kovalev comes from another boxing school, that you (Americans) still don't have the required knowledge to understand it -- read "properly deal with it".

[Tom Cruise]

Ive flip flopped a bit about this fight... but i think im going to pick against Hopkins here.

I know he has looked better than he should for his age against Murat, Shumenov and Cloud, but really how good are those guys?

Fooking Clevery TKO'd Murat

Kovalev is good enough and smart enough to not let Hopkins dictate to him in this fight. I see the fight maybe being even enough through 6, with Hopkins smothering SK's work and trying to pot shot from the outside, but after that the pace Kovalev will set will be too fast for a 50yo Hopkins. I expect SK to take over after round six, and once he does that it will depend on how much BH really has left whether he reaches the final bell (I think he will). I dont think Hopkins much loved 'mind games' will work so well against a supremely confident and alpha as **** Kovalev either.

This is it for Hopkins.... maybe...

How many times have we said that?

I think i done alright?

Kova is smarter than i gave him credit for though, better fghter overall than i thought, which is why i thought it would be even going through 6

[Evil Abed]

This was a fun thread