Did Oscar Take a Dive Against Hopkins?

[lakerstekkenn]

I think Hopkins corner"s game plan was to attack Oscars body, because they knew something and Oscar wasn't really a strong big fighter for his size and only had real susses with smaller opponents and for actually being 5"11, people ask like me, why couldn't he fight at middle weight and super middle weight and Hopkins and his team believed, Oscar was very weak strength wise, because Trinidad had no problem moving up in weight, to actually take Hopkins and Roy Jones deep into their championship fights and even going all 12 with Roy, and win the middle weight title earlier.

Body shot shout, was letting Oscar know what's coming and we know your body is weak and your core strength abdominal muscles are not going to take this bod shot.

Also these fighters are so heavy handed and hit so hard, because of their constant training to develop punching power they generate so much force that a simple looking body shot that we would land, is actually ten times more powerful when they land the same punch, it's like me throwing a right hand and landing on you and then Roy Jones hitting you with the same right hand and let's say he holds back, my right would hurt but his right even held back could brake bones in your face and knock you out or even kill you.

[sbbigmike]

I certainly thought it was fixed.

Watch a little bit before the round starts. Before the ninth. Listen when the camera’s in Bernard’s corner. Listen to what he says and his facial reaction.

Btw, I don’t think that was ****m shouting that during the round but I could be wrong. Either way doesn’t matter.

But yeah, when you listen to Hop’s corner before the round, realize someone’s shouting body shot and Oscar, then watch that weak shot drop him like a sack of breaks...hmmm.

Then they announce their partnership days later? That was something they must’ve been negotiating before they fought. That sealed it for me,

Oscar had a lot of questionable decisions in Vegas. It’s fair to suspect foul play.

Oscar was in promoter mode, he dived to lure bhop to Golden boy to get a piece of that bhop Roy 2 pie, if I'm remembering correctly Roy got koed thereafter though

[FinitoxDinamita]

I thought it was a dive watching it live and i still have no doubt in my mind that it was some fake bullsht.

Dont fkin tell me that a little love tap downstairs is gonna KO Oscar and have em rolling around the canvas like he was shot.

Man gtfo here with that lmfao oscar sucks at acting.

They made a deal from the get go. The plan was to make oscar look good for the first 8 rounds or before getting knocked out by a fake body punch. And Hopkins joins GBP right after and everybody wins.

Oscar held his own in the fight before getting hit by a fake tap, i mean punch.

[Luilun]

Looks like that

[True That]

It looks like a dive, but I know one thing. Oscar took a fist up his bunghole by one of those girls. Lol

[Vasyl’s dad]

Looked like it to me as it happened. Still looks like it now. I think Oscar was realizing he was gonna get Titoed. In his view, better to go down from a body shot than a head shot.

[R_Walken]

I’ll give Oscar the benefit of the doubt that it wasnt a straight up dive but you never know


But as a B-hop fan at the time and Oscar hater I f.ucking loved it


Oscar looked like sh.it the fight before against Sturm and shouldn’t have won ( that was a robbery) and only got that decision because of his name and because the B-hop fight was already next in line for all the straps I believe

I’ll chalk it up to at that point that it was strictly about the money for Oscar . so while a younger Oscar may have tried to dig deep and recover this Oscar knew he stood no chance against B-hop and just called it a day.

The thing to me that’s su****ious and can lead to believe that it could have been a dive is B-hop joining GB right after as a partner definitely to much buddy buddy going on so maybe there was a silent agreement that B-hop takes it easy on Oscar and for both to make a sh.it load of $ without having to go to war

[Jd903e]

100 pct he took a dive.....and ive been a looong time fan,since the Olympics

[A-Wolf]

Dive? No it was a fake fight from beginning to end. Bernard is a terrible actor. He was the one making it obvious.

[Scopedog]

I dunno, the punch looks kind of weak but it's hard to say just how badly it hurt without actually getting hit by it. I don't really see why Oscar would want to take a dive, it's not like he was hurting for money or anything like that, though there are some plausible theories itt. I suppose it's a possibility.