Official: HBO- Bernard Hopkins VS Joe Smith Jr. RBR Thread

[crazed_z06]

Smith Jr hits so hard that Bernard thinks an entire man's weight was on him..

[Enayze]

Dan Rafael. Right before it happened the crew was actually talking about it.

A bunch of idiots, especially after B-Hop had a two year layoff. And I understand Hopkins has a lot of pride, and its hard for him to swallow a KO loss, a KO loss that should've never happened if the team weren't half way idiots, and picked more or less a lay up opponent.

[M Bison]

He actually has a case

Lmfao no he doesn't....

Carl Frampton, Roman Gonzalez, Terence Crawford and I guess maybe uhhh Usyk will likely all be front runners for that award

[M Bison]

A bunch of idiots, especially after B-Hop had a two year layoff. And I understand Hopkins has a lot of pride, and its hard for him to swallow a KO loss, a KO loss that should've never happened if the team weren't half way idiots, and picked more or less a lay up opponent.

This, exactly this!
Imagine If he picked Adonis Stevenson it'd be even worse than what we just saw tonight It's good we got a good scrap Joe Smith Jr just did what he was suppose to do maybe he shouldn't have took the fight on principles but on other hand beating Hopkins by KO is a huge platform will make him public enemy number 1 doubt many ppl will be fans.

[Larry the boss]

You sure seem to enjoy this which is strange when you support every black fighter like they're your son.

1-Enjoy?? hell no

2-Keep all that race **** to yourself

3-I am just posting facts as usual

[The Gambler1981]

A bunch of idiots, especially after B-Hop had a two year layoff. And I understand Hopkins has a lot of pride, and its hard for him to swallow a KO loss, a KO loss that should've never happened if the team weren't half way idiots, and picked more or less a lay up opponent.

Yea it was a really poor choice because Smith was determined to win with the ability and will to fight as the young man which is something B-Hop had trouble with for a long time.

20/20 hindsight but still the risks were there.obviously.

[MasterPlan]

A bunch of idiots, especially after B-Hop had a two year layoff. And I understand Hopkins has a lot of pride, and its hard for him to swallow a KO loss, a KO loss that should've never happened if the team weren't half way idiots, and picked more or less a lay up opponent.

Which is probably why Nazeem wasn't in his corned tonight.

[GMAN SUPREME]

Hurts to see this interview from BHops

Kind of wish they had showed him the replay first to avoid this crap, but it is what it is.

hopkins knows what's up he knows he was knocked the *** out but he'll never admit it because of his huge ego so he'll make up fake injuries instead. this is classic hopkins.

[Pigeons]

Lmfao no he doesn't....

Carl Frampton, Roman Gonzalez, Terence Crawford and I guess maybe uhhh Usyk will likely all be front runners for that award

Fonfara was the #2 ranked LHW contender before Smith knocked him out in 1 round (http://www.tbrb.org/2016/06/14/14-june-2016/).

Hopkins was the #2 ranked LHW contender before exiting the rankings due to inactivity last year (http://www.tbrb.org/2015/10/13/13-october-2015/). Smith scored the Knockout of the Year and became the first man to stop Hopkins while subsequently retiring him.

[GMAN SUPREME]

And the clinches... Oh boy, so many clinches not a single warning its like we should make exceptions because Bernard Hopkins is brave and an exception to the rule with how he has aged that we should let him hold and we should ignore all the work of his opponents just because Bhop is old and a legend...

Doesn't work like that for me, some of the people on here scoring the fight was atrocious the Boxnation commentator Steve Lillis made an absolute fool out of himself he had Bhop up by 5-2 I think?

no doubt about it.make no mistake if the fight went the distance they would have robbed smith. WAR smith!