Comments Thread For: Hopkins Confident He Would Beat Golovkin - Explains How!

[Larry the boss]

At this stage i am sure Hopkins has the mind to pull it off but his reflex's have gone and he would not be able to pull the trigger when he needed to...GGG would beat him at this age

[MDPopescu]

... Prime for prime, Tutankhamun would beat GGG...

[robertzimmerman]

But he still fought ODLH at catchweight of 158. But you cant expect every fighter to dare to be great..

There was nothing great about a guy of 6'1, with a 75" reach, who started out at LHW/CW, beating Oscar at MW, who'd look like **** against Sturm.

That wasn't greatness.

Here's a quote from Bernard from 2008 in the lead up to his fight against Joe Calzaghe:

"I could have moved up to LHW about 6 years ago had I have wanted to, but I didn't want to give up my advantages"

[basic_bounty]

Hopkins just retire already.

[PunchyPotorff]

GGG fans fail on so many levels to accept their cult leader's limitations. He doesn't do well vs solid boxers with some pop. Brook proved that undeniably. BHop would likely lose, but not before embarrassing GGG a good bit.

[-Freddy-]

I think Bernard wants to die in the ring.

[Reloaded]

GGG fans fail on so many levels to accept their cult leader's limitations. He doesn't do well vs solid boxers with some pop. Brook proved that undeniably. BHop would likely lose, but not before embarrassing GGG a good bit.

They dont know boxing , they know Boom Crash Pow , casual fans can see power they cant see the rest of it .

[Deletrious]

He used a different analogy to say the exact same thing about Kovalev, then had to eat his words.

:: 5 minutes after fighting GGG:: "I thought I was the matador in with the bull but turns out I was the cow::

[sirron000]

There was nothing great about a guy of 6'1, with a 75" reach, who started out at LHW/CW, beating Oscar at MW, who'd look like **** against Sturm.

That wasn't greatness.

Here's a quote from Bernard from 2008 in the lead up to his fight against Joe Calzaghe:

"I could have moved up to LHW about 6 years ago had I have wanted to, but I didn't want to give up my advantages"

But wasn't he still willing to challenge himself by going down to a catch weight for DLH? And Oscar didn't look like **** against Bernard he was actually winning the fight. You guys kill me trying to protect 'that no special effects guy' on one hand and swear he's a god on the other.

[IronDanHamza]

And both those guys bigger n longer than ggg and I'm using taylor from the hopkins fights, before hopkins and winky soften up his chin.. I always thought that hopkins concussed taylor late in the first fight and he was never really the same..

Like I said before,, not sayng taylor wins, just that it's 50/50. Golovkin has never faced a caliber of fighter of taylor 2005, so we really don't know how he reacts when faced with a big athletic young power puncher with a long jab

Would definitely be interesting early.

I'd expect Taylor to be ahead at the halfway point but you have to think that when he fades and Golovkin starts landing flush that he'd break down and get him out of there.