Who Won The Roy Jones Vs Bernard Hopkins Rivialry?

True.
Calzaghe, and more specifically his manager, FW, waited until both Jones and Hopkins slowed down considerably before they dared to come near them. Joe says he didn't like to fly, but once Jones and Hopkins degraded, Joe jumped on a flight with a quickness.
Golovkin has a lot of Calzaghe in him. :smoke

 

I decided not to add a poll to the thread because I'm sure at least several already exist.
Rather, an enjoyable discussion was the intention.

Both fighters are ATGs worthy of respect, and both will have their loyal fan bases. Although over the recent few years I feel that Jones's base may have shrank while Hopkins due to his consistency, has grown.

 

Hopkins was taking much larger challenges facing top guys who were 15-20 years his junior, and most were world champions. He even won his fair share and even in loss didn't embarrass himself.

Sure they were carefully picked like Shumenov, but even still, for his age it is impressive.
Plus your false statement about Hopkins hugging his way to a win is totally false and deceitful.
You act as if Hopkins is on the ropes he is supposed to sit there and allow his 15 years younger opponent to freely tee off and hit him repeatedly.
That's as dumb as the previous "going out on his shield" comment.

People who often make this comment are those who DKSAB and simply have an agenda to reduce Hopkins's accomplishments.

There is no way in hell you can possibly compare Hopkin's loses with Jones. :-(

 

The first time Jones and Hopkins meet Hopkins was still leaning on the job and his skills had yet to develop lacking the same amateur experience Jones possessed. Contrary to casual belief, the fight wasn't evenly matched because Jones was prime and Hopkins had not yet reached his prime, but still like Wilder today, learning on the job.

I don't believe Hopkins really began hitting his stride until 2 years later in the 2nd Mercado fight when he won the IBF title and afterwards, ran off a sequence of TKO/KO victories against Lipsey, Jackson, Johnson and others.
Even in loss, BHOP learned a great deal from the Jones fight.

In the Jones-Hopkins rematch, Jones did pull a lot of dirty tricks. It's funny how many distractors say that Hopkins is a dirty fighter while watching Jones do even dirtier stuff to survive in that rematch.
and don't act as if Jones hasn't call the ref's attention to fouls in his fights either. I can remember quite a few times when Jones took 2-5 minutes after being hit low.
Also, I haven't forgotten Jones's DQ loss to Griffin either.

 

I'm glad you brought this up and acknowledge Jones losses weren't to scrubs because Hopkins beat those same fighters, I.E., Tarver, Johnson, and IMHO, Calzaghe.
Jones however, did clearly lose to Calzaghe, and got beat up to boot.

The part about hugging I won't address because it is nonsense.