today Wilder maybe. Young Wilder for me had looked promising. I watch Oly games and World / Continental championships, not that bad he was. Pros, yeah, he then with these bags in the ring had degraded. I pick not only GGG, also Canelo and Ward to stop him in distance while for Ward maybe this will be 8-10 th round with main health remaining taken from G man till end of G man's life. Canelo and GGG like Nigel had turned this kid into paraplegic like Nigel had achieved. He was also too cocky, maybe worse than Wilder btw.
Why? Hopkins had fought in age when boxers usually are retired long years ago. He is judged also from fights when he was already really old, therefore he is valued not enough highly in forums.
If someone ever will attempt to mark Hopkins as unskilled bear in mind that he was 40 years 1 month old when he was absolutely UNDISPUTED and had The Ring belt. Legacy wise I rate his legacy higher than Usyk exactly because his age when he had fought and he for sure was very skilled boxer. Unique specimen btw.
If prime GGG will have bad night vs prime Nigel then yeah, Nigel might stop him. He looks for me lesser predictable and more difficult to hit properly with long term impact and I think that Nigel did not had undervalued his opponents like G man had with a glance.
G-Man went in to the Benn fight damaged goods, the brain problems surfaced in sparring where they had to stop sparring because of punches wobbling him, jabs. To much weight cutting imo caused his problems. A few fights earlier he’d of decapitated Benn where the injury hadn’t yet surfaced. A good team around him and he would’ve been retired before the inevitable
Why? Becuase he had stopped lad with 0-11 pro fight record and had beated up boxer with 4 lost fights via stoppages before fight with G man hype job? Only because he had good fights with 1 notable guy and is from U.S this bum is considered as even top 10 material not alone to beat up guys like Ward, Canelo, GGG, prime Kovalev etc. " Crude " Nigel Benn had put this rude hype job in place where he deserved to be and in condition he had deserved to have today. Lesson. Do not promise to kill ppl at weight ins. Espeically if you are not top 10 material.
This bum is only one boxer in the world who I think had deserved his lesson from God in the ring. While I never will type this if this had happened with Wilder or buterelo or Floyd. Different levels to be from the hell. Gerald get his lesson for his cocky shitty mind and mouth.
Maybe. Most likely Benn then didn't had looked enough old. Match making in boxing is like in all other causal businesses. Mistakes happens. Prices are different of course. Prices for mistakes.