Comments Thread For: Hopkins: Kovalev Was Better Man, Stuck To His Plan

[speed2kill]

Hop became gunshy once he tasted Kov's power. His offensive output was pathetic. His only strategy was "dont get hit, try a sneaky haymaker a few times a round and duck out the way." It's commendable that at almost 50 he was still able to go the distance, but that was NOT a spirited effort. Everytime Hop did try to open up some offense, he got hit so I think he became very conservative.

That was probably the worse performance of Hop's career- but it was because of his opponent. Hop probably could have still beaten most of the other top 10 LHW last night.

[speed2kill]

i understand that, but you have to take into consideration of the skill levels of fighters he will be potentially facing in the future, like a ward, pascal, dirrell, has anyone kovalev has faced ever prepared him for fighters with real raw talent, in their prime that take it and dish it out like ward, direll, and pascal???

lets not forget these guys are real real veterans of the sport, especially ward and pascal and can make kova miss and make him pay, thats the sport of boxing... and we both know kova is skilled but he is not a fast fighter and who knows what will happen when he fights a guy who reflexes are not compromised by age like b-hop...

Pascal should not be on that list. Would not consider him good, but not elite.
Dirrell has talent, but would likely fold once he gets hurt. His "matrix" style will get him caught with a big punch when he pulls out.

Ward is the guy that might trouble Kov.

[lutenco]

I'll never let a white boy beat me! ×2
Anyway 49y mother****er, legend!

[junior gong]

what i mean by very easy,(though hopkins took him to the distance and looked very clean after the fight) is that when he moves up further in competition hes gonna fight fighters who know how to nueterlize his power a little bit better then a legend who is 49 years old... now i gave kova full credit for this win btw, but im talking about fighters like ward, maybe even pascal who could sit there with real skill and quickness, and be able to give and take from a fighter like kovalev and take him into deep waters and be able to pull the trigger..you know....hopkins did what he could but he couldnt pull that trigger.....ward,pascal, andre dirrell are fighter who can, and id like to see all 3 get their chance at kova, to show how good this guy really is....

So, tell us more about how Buttkins was going to take Kovalev to school. Typical bloody flowmo racetard.

[sicko]

Boxing B-Hop is the right strategy, even he admitted it that he wanted Kovalev to come to him but Kovalev WISELY would get his clean work off and then back off, keeping his distance away from Clinching and avoid B-Hop inside tactics

It is no secret B-Hop struggled the most with BOXERS, most of his loses was him getting out-boxed

[LouIE G]

So, tell us more about how Buttkins was going to take Kovalev to school. Typical bloody flowmo racetard.

why dont you tell us more about how kovalev was going to ko hopkins....typical power puncher nuthugger.

[RightJabLikeZab]

Boxing B-Hop is the right strategy, even he admitted it that he wanted Kovalev to come to him but Kovalev WISELY would get his clean work off and then back off, keeping his distance away from Clinching and avoid B-Hop inside tactics

It is no secret B-Hop struggled the most with BOXERS, most of his loses was him getting out-boxed

you're right. When Dawson was good he schooled B-hop.

[junior gong]

why dont you tell us more about how kovalev was going to ko hopkins....typical power puncher nuthugger.

I said that? I said I expected Hopkins to pull some shady crap, which props to him, he didnt. You on the other hand were just racetarding as usual and showing you know absolutely *** all about boxing. 'He gown get takin ta school...'herp de derp de derpins.

[nycsmooth]

let this old guy who is not a legend go away...Ray Robinson was a legend, Monzon, Mike Spinks that NEVER lost @ LHW, Bob Foster, all these would have dominated hopkiins......Hopkins never fought 10 ellites in his whole cherry picking career...

[LouIE G]

I said that? I said I expected Hopkins to pull some shady crap, which props to him, he didnt. You on the other hand were just racetarding as usual and showing you know absolutely *** all about boxing. 'He gown get takin ta school...'herp de derp de derpins.

oh thats right you dont make predictions, cause you dont know shiat about boxing! all you do is troll peoples threads looking for posters to leave offensive memes for about autistic children.... my bad i forgot