Hopkins most exciting fights?

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  1. Clearly Cool

    Clearly Cool Active Member Full Member

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    I appreciate this guy a heap. But to be honest I haven't seen a lot of his fights.

    His crafy, experienced style gets him by against some dangerous opponents of late, but could you recommend some (perhaps earlier) fights that you consider exciting?

    Trinidad fight was my highlight thus far, although one sided, it was so complete and it's slow rise from potential competition to domination was seamless.
     
  2. Thread Stealer

    Thread Stealer Loyal Member Full Member

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    The Echols rematch was a fun foulfest.

    His domination of Glen Johnson was fun to watch. I enjoyed both Pascal fights.

    The first Mercado fight was a pretty good fight, and competitive. The rematch was an ass-kicking.
     
  3. damian38

    damian38 BigDramaShow Full Member

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    Hopkins clowning Pavlik was a good fight
     
  4. HamburgBuam

    HamburgBuam Boxing Addict Full Member

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    His fight against his age.
     
  5. HerolGee

    HerolGee Loyal Member banned Full Member

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    his forthcoming fight against dementia.
     
  6. Badbot

    Badbot You can just do things. Full Member

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    Karo Murat was a good one. Then he had two wars/brawls with Pascal. Both fights had plenty of drama.

    And any true boxing fan should enjoy his dominant wins over Trinidad, Pavlik and Tarver. The cherry on the top for those 3 was that they were all the favourites heading in. :yep

    And i always liked the first Mercando fight.
     
  7. dinovelvet

    dinovelvet Antifanboi Full Member

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    The Pavlik fight was a msterclass. Very entertaining.

    Johnshon was good. He had crazy stamina back then and threw all sorts of punches like lead uppercuts.

    Joe Lipsy was another good one. Great knockout.
     
  8. HerolGee

    HerolGee Loyal Member banned Full Member

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    in his early thirties when prime when he could do 12 rounds full pace.

    by the time he was in his forties, beatable by fairly good fighters, he was slowing, spoiling, treading water for air, requiring a slow-middle pace in order to last the distance.
     
  9. richie leon

    richie leon Boxing Addict Full Member

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    both Mercado fights, both Echols fights, Trinidad fight, G.Johnson fight (those last 2 were awfully one-sided, but still a joy to watch) are the best i've seen off the top of my head. I thought the Pavlik fight was pretty damn good too, although again it was very one-sided. Oh and the first Pascal fight deserves a mention, even though it didn't have all that much sustained action, it was exciting to see BHop get up from 2 kd's and outfight Pascal down the stretch.
     
  10. MoJoGoodie

    MoJoGoodie Boxing Addict Full Member

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    i actualy liked both taylor fights
     
  11. jim jim

    jim jim Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Ye Murat was actually a good one just how he broke him down there was a lot of drama too
     
  12. heizenberg

    heizenberg Well-Known Member Full Member

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    The ones mentioned were all good fights but if you want to see a real good Bhop fight check out his fight early in his career against Gilbert Baptist, it was a real good action fight.
     
  13. Dorfmeister

    Dorfmeister Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Segundo Mercado, Joe Lipsey, John David Johnson, Segundo Mercado II, Antwon Echols I, Glenn Johnson, Simon Brown, Robert Allen II, Keith Holmes, Felix Trinidad, William Joppy, Howard Eastman, Jermain Taylor.
     
  14. Scar

    Scar VIP Member Full Member

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    Both Pascal fights were very exciting too.
     
  15. Dorfmeister

    Dorfmeister Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Forgot about those two, thnx bro!