Comments Thread For: Bernard Hopkins Felt Undersized Against Sergey Kovalev

[BIGPOPPAPUMP]

Sergey Kovalev was intelligent in the way he fought Bernard Hopkins on Saturday night, smartly using his size and employing a strategy that kept him in control throughout the bout, according to Hopkins.

“I couldn’t overpower him. I just felt like a middleweight in there, maybe a super middleweight in there, against a cruiserweight,” Hopkins said at the post-fight press conference. “I don’t know what it looked like to y’all, but I couldn’t get in the range that I wanted to get into. And the range was the length, whether it was his height, his reach, his stepping back, because he was stepping back when I wanted to engage. And that’s smart, because we are taught not to engage because your opponent want to engage. You fight when you want to fight. You make him fight when you want to fight. And that’s part of the strategy of any seasoned fighter.
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[-MARKAVELLI-]

It's the turtle shell doe!!!

[SplitSecond]

strength for you

[LoadedWraps]

WAR Kovalev!!

[The Hammer]

According to HBO, Hopkins has longer arms and is the same height.

At the weigh in, Hopkins appeared to be a slightly bigger man, as we can see in most of the photos (except the top one) shown on boxingscene.

http://www.boxingscene.com/photos-hopkins-vs-kovalev-monster-weighin-gallery--83995

They both weighed in slightly under the limit of 175.

But I was expecting to see the "Kovalev is a cruiserweight doe" excuse if he won.

[ИATAS]

According to HBO, Hopkins has longer arms and is the same height.

At the weigh in, Hopkins appeared to be a slightly bigger man, as we can see in most of the photos (except the top one) shown on boxingscene.

http://www.boxingscene.com/photos-hopkins-vs-kovalev-monster-weighin-gallery--83995

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They both weighed in slightly under the limit of 175.

But I was expecting to see the "Kovalev is a cruiserweight doe" excuse if he won.

No, he's saying that's how he felt compared to Kovalev because of his power, because of skills and game plan. He's saying Kovalev made him FEEL like a middleweight. Read the whole thing not just the headline he's ggiving Kovalev nothing but props:
“I really couldn’t get inside to do the work that I wanted to do,” Hopkins said. “I had some success, but not a lot. I had some success here and there, but it wasn’t enough to get some early rounds in the bank and get his respect to the point where he got off his game. He never got off his game. There was some excitement at the end, but he controlled it earlier more than I did.”

“He had a really good game plan,” Hopkins had said earlier in the evening, immediately after the bout. “When he got hit with some of my shots, he would sit back and wait, but he used his reach and his distance and that was his key. He has very good mechanics and patience, and because after I hit him he sat back, that would cause me to have to reset. It was hard that he stayed patient. He had a really good game plan. … He also countered his right hand over my jab. I give him a lot of respect.”

[IronDanHamza]

Likely how Trinidad, Oscar, Pavlik and Wright felt when they fought Hopkins.

[ИATAS]

Likely how Trinidad, Oscar, Pavlik and Wright felt when they fought Hopkins.

yeah sure except they were in the primes of their career, except probably Wright.

[IronDanHamza]

yeah sure except they were in the primes of their career, except probably Wright.

Regardless I can imagine they all felt undersized when they fought Hopkins.

[ИATAS]

Regardless I can imagine they all felt undersized when they fought Hopkins.

none said so. Plus it's not like Hopkins was some physical KO machine. He beat guys without much power, more so on technique and boxing ability.