Comments Thread For: Hopkins: No Excuses, Golovkin Should Fight Kovalev!

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This is where it started, with this question to Canelo

Canelo said GGG needs to fight someone before he would take the fight. I asked Canelo who and Bernard Hopkins chimed in with "Kovalev." WTF?

— Andreas Hale (@AndreasHale) May 4, 2016

Taking a cue from Mayweather and Canelo, BJ Saunders has just tweeted..."I'll fight Golovkin as soon as he moves up and beats Fury!"

[about.thousands]

LMAO at tossing in De La Dive in there....So in a decade plus in the U.S. he fought 4 total names in a reign that spanned twelve plus years. You want to compare him to a guy that spent almost his full seven unrecognized outside of europe. Talk about grasping at straws.

His resume from age 45-49 ****s all over GGG's. Bottom line!

[about.thousands]

yeah, I was so disappointed back then that Hopkins-Allen 4, Hopkins-Echols 3, Hopkins-Hakkar 2, Hopkins-Vanderpool 2, and Hopkins-Council 2 never got made.....

His resume from age 44-49 ****s all over GGG's. Bottom line!

[about.thousands]

Hilarious that the first two names are guys that never fought at middleweight minus like 1 fight prior...
Names for sure but not middleweights by any stretch.

So in 3 years we can say GGG beat Canelo,Brook,Jacobs and one other middling middleweight and that would be equal to the guys you just listed bud.

His resume from age 44-49 ****s all over GGG's. Bottom line!

[about.thousands]

Yea Hopkins MOVED UP...AFTER he Lost HIS TITLES..when he was champion HE DID NOT MOVE UP

His resume from age 44-49 ****s all over GGG's. Bottom line!

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His resume from age 45-49 ****s all over GGG's. Bottom line!

Nope...that's not what we are discussing here bruh. Don't conveniently try to shift away from the point now that your first argument didn't hold up. 2010 - 2014 He fought Shumenov, Murat, Cloud, got treated like a b*t*h by Chad Dawson and trying everything in his trickery book to get out of it, beating Jean Pascal and Roy Jones. Outside of Pascal he beat one washed up fighter in Jones and a bunch of b-/c class fighters...the only reason that's impressive is because of his age...again please show us where the huge resume is bruh.

[PulpFriction]

I disagree with X in that I'd rather aee Ward-Kovalev than Kovalev-GGG. As for GGG moving up to light heavyweight to fight the Ward-Kovalev winner, its a no-brainer. Unfortunately for Gennady, the Canelo thing is unlikely. At least in the next 12mons. The closest elite to GGG in terms of weight will be the Ward-Kovalev winner. Will be an excellent superfight for the first has of 2017.

Golovkin doesn't even rehydrate to 175. How is it a no brainer he should fight at a weight where he'll have a 15-20 lb disadvantage?

[joseph5620]

Hilarious that the first two names are guys that never fought at middleweight minus like 1 fight prior...
Names for sure but not middleweights by any stretch.

So in 3 years we can say GGG beat Canelo,Brook,Jacobs and one other middling middleweight and that would be equal to the guys you just listed bud.

Trinidad was considered a legitimate middleweight by anybody with even a little bit of intelligence.

[Swatty]

Trinidad was considered a legitimate middleweight by anybody with even a little bit of intelligence.

No. Just no. TRINIDAD NEVER WON A FIGHT AT MIDDLEWEIGHT. NEVER.

[Jsmooth9876]

Trinidad was considered a legitimate middleweight by anybody with even a little bit of intelligence.

Why? Because he beat William Joppy? The guy was a career 147-154 lb fighter. He was not a middleweight. He got schooled by a real middleweight in Hopkins and I believe Winky at 160 as well. Anyone who says he was a legitimate middleweight based on one fight against a middling guy in Joppy was badly mistaken.