Would Hopkins get the same heat..

[BennyST]

For fighting some of the top WW's of his time had they moved up to MW? Vernon Forest, Ricardo Mayorga, Mosley, Oscar & Tito? I doubt it..

I'm sorry but id take all of them over most of the scrubs he reigned over. Peace

Maybe Forrest, Mayorga and Mosley, but considering Oscar and Tito especially were middleweight champions, your whole argument is kinda ****e.

He still does get **** for them anyway, so if they had jumped straight from being 147 champs without ever having fought higher or been middleweight champions, then yes, he would have copped it big time.

But there is a big difference between an actual welterweight, a 147 pound welterweight jumping straight into fighting a 160 pound middleweight champion, and two middleweight champions fighting each other for a unification, one of whom happened to have moved up from welterweight.

Kell Brook is an actual welterweight, in every way. Oscar and Tito weren't. In fact, Tito was considered the best middleweight in the world.

What a douche.

[IMDAZED]

Who did Bernard Hopkins fight that jumped straight from 147-160?