Bernard Hopkins wants to fight "The WBO Guy From England"

I'd go just to see Hopkins in person. Unless it conflicts with the gigs i'm going to this year.

 

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Wouldn’t be so sure. I’m constantly amazed at how little boxers know about the sport, and especially their divisions. He didn’t seem to know when he was on Bruce’s Boxing Hour.

 

I actually think Dirrell gets a hard time from a lot of people. In terms of how good of a fighter he is, not the fact he's a bit of a dick. Or more than a bit, whatever. You know what I mean.

I don't bother defending him anyways though, because when his fans are worse than he is you've already lost the battle really.

 

OK, so put the Smirnoff Ice down and explain to me how Cleverly beats Hopkins.

I don't think you can surely believe that Cleverly wins because he is bigger and has a better work-rate. If all you needed was a good workrate to beat Hopkins then he would have been beaten alot more then he has.

 

Earl, a few months back DeGale would have destroyed Dirrell according to you. Between that time and now Dirrell has fought two rounds against a journeyman and suddenly he's the best boxer at 168.

Now you're trying to tell us that a guy who was soundly outboxed for large periods against Tony Bellew is the man to beat one of the most proven and craftiest boxers in the game.

Do you ever stop and ask yourself, "Am I really being balanced in my view here, could it be possible that I'm getting a tad carried away?"

 

Whether you thought he beat Calzaghe or not, he got close and Calzaghe is far better than Cleverly.

Pascal lose clearly both times IMO, a few rounds aren’t that important, Hopkins is a technical fighter who can adjust. Don’t want to get too much into the couple of rounds of the Dawson fight but Chad didn’t land that much of note, so would dispute him winning easily.

It was an unbeaten Pavlik, thought of a lot higher than Clev is. Easy to write it off now.

 

This wouls be like Hopkins-Pavlik all over again.

 

Fair enough. :good We're all entitled to our opinions.

 

Dawson wasn't beating him easily (apart from the body slam) if anything the fight was starting to be controlled by Hopkins, did Dawson even land a decent punch?

The reason Joe beat Hopkins was more than just his fantastic workrate, Cleverly is no Calzaghe, he doesn't possess the handspeed, footwork or versatility that Calzaghe has done. He's a different fighter.

I don't know how you can take anything away from Hopkins with the Pascal fights, especially the second one, Hopkins was mocking Pascal throughout. Toying with him.

I'm sure I don't need to tell you that prior to the Hopkins fight that Pavlik was seen as some kind of unstoppable beast, by some atleast, that win is a very good one on Hopkins' record and cannot be disregarded by "it's Pavlik." Even taking into consideration what we now know about Pavlik's lifestyle, doesn't change anything.

The RJJ fight was a glorified exhibition, and embarrasing, I agree this fight holds no weight.