Open Question:BHOP VS ODH

At the time Hops was famous for being at or near fighting weight 360 out of 365 days a year.

Not weight drained when you are a 20 defense middle champ moving down 2 lbs

 

hopkins went easy on dlh. The whole thing there was that dlh was a finer boxer, so hopkins went in there trying to outbox dlh. when he finally put in some muscle behind a punch, he dropped him. He gave his all to tito. I give tito props for slugging it out with hopkins

 

You mean Bhop went in there and ruffed up Delahoya!

 

Yep. This is true. Unwatchable fight. Hopkins made it completely obvious with his sparring match intensity. He babied the **** out of De La Hoya.

On topic Hopkins was drained. He looked horrifically gaunt, and weighed in at 156. That's nothing for a guy over six feet carrying as much muscle as he, and at 38/39 years old.

 

Yea, hopkins gets all the credit in the world from me. He weight in at 156, DLH at 155. In addition Hopkins put his belts on the line despite the fight being at a catchweight. And he was old as **** to be coming down in weight. It's a good win, particularly since he stopped DLH.

 

He could have ended the night earlier. Watch the fight Tito was out on his feet in the 2nd. But I must give it up to Tito b/c he still kept coming forward.

 

The fight was awful. Who cares?

 

Hopkins used to eat a vegetarian diet to make weight so i highly doubt he was drained

 

It's a fair point I guess.

 

I agree with half. When he boxed DLH he was losing. He began to push DLH around and used his size, started turning things around, but DLH was still getting the better of it until the ko. I think Hopkins was more careful of Tito though, kept his distance, moved like DLH did against Tito. I think only at the end did Hopkins go in for the kill but before that he was staying away while scoring, clear away.

 

Oscar lost to sturm beforehand, so it didn't matter.

 

As to the original post, every fighters different. We have to think of their optimum weight and how far they are removed. DLH's optimum weight was probably 140-147.

 

I agree with this. He carried de la hoya.