Originally posted by lparm
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Better resume. Bernard Hopkins or Roy Jones Jr?
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I’d give Roy the edge, Toney was a top 3 P4P fighter when Roy beat him.
B-Hop, McCallum, Hill, Johnson, Griffin, Tarver and Ruiz are all solid wins as well.
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Originally posted by chrisJS View PostJones was the better fighter and won the fight when it counted. Hopkins' longevity closed the gap though but not sure if quite enough.
Hopkins did better with Tarver head to head and Johnson but Johnson barely counts for Jones and he was a far better fight then than he was vs. Hopkins. Jones got Toney which was a better win than anything Hopkins did. Trinidad was Hopkins' best win and I'd say that would probably be better than anything else Jones did. Jones' beating Hill, Johnson, Ruiz, Griffin and even an old McCallum are better than Hopkins wins over Fishnets, Wright, Pavlik, Holmes, Joppy for example.
Like I said it's close on resume. Hopkins' was legit undisputed at 160 whereas Jones unfairly got the WBA and IBF belts and never fought the guy who was clear #1 when he got to the division. Now Jones would have beaten Michalczewski, but he didn't. That was Jones' 3rd weight class after being the clear #1 at 160 and 168 before vacating each. Jones was the better overall talent and won when it counted so he gets the edge IMO.
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Originally posted by BKM- View PostWhen it would have counted most would have been the late 90s through the mid 00s. Roy didn't beat the best version of Hopkins, neither did Hopkins beat the best version of Roid.
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