Which surprised you more?

Neither...
Trinidad should have never left the 147lbs division.

 

**** you ******!!

 

CLEARLY Hopkins. LMAO @ the people claiming neither surprised them. GTFOH! CLEARLY non boxing fans in 01. Lying.

 

They both surprised me but Wright more so since he was a 154 lb and not as accomplished as Hopkins was.

 

Little history lesson, kids. Trinidad was believed to be INVINCIBLE at the time he fought Hopkins. Only the best schooled boxing fans (.02%) understood what Trinidad was facing, and even they weren't completely certain of Bernard's chances. If any. There's a reason Larry Merchant called what Hopkins did one of the greatest single performances inside a boxing ring he had ever witnessed.

 

Trinidad was out of his element as soon as he left the Welterweight division.
Sure he scored some KO's outside of it... BUT ****ed himself by taking away his advantages.

The Hopkins win is ****. (For Bernard)
Winky, Well lets just say Wright is like a a ***** that don't put out.
(Trinidad had blue balls by night's end.)

 

At the time Hopkins win was more surprising. At the Time he was unbeaten and on a pretty good run with wins over David Reid, Fernando Vargas and William Joppy over the previous year.

 

Exactly. Hopkins-Trinidad was thought to set up a Jones-Trinidad fight. That´s how good Tito was thought at the time. That was a biggie.

 

i don't get how the Trinidad/Jones fight was suppose to happen....there was no way Trinidad was gonna go up to 168 and there was definitely no way Jones was going to go all the down to middle again......

 

Said from a real boxing fan....

I remember watching the fight; at some point, must have been the 6th or 7th round my mouth open in utter shock that Bernard was outboxing, outfoxing, out hustling Tito Trinidad.....

The way the fight went, the ending was inevitable but when he dropped Tito in the 12th I was filled with this incredible rush of emotion that this is boxing history, its like seeing what was inevitable come true and still being surprised. I've seen Tito get outboxed before but he usually turned things around. I still remember George Foreman commenting on how Tito's father lying to Tito and telling him that he's winning.

This is one of those fights that you may have missed the significance if you didn't watch it not necessarily live but at around the time of airing.

Winky's dominant win surprised me equally, but at the time especially after the Joppy massacre, I thought Hopkins was a dead man.

Boy was I wrong...

 

Trinidad was going to go up to 168 to fight Jones after he was supposed to beat Hopkins. it would have been a Trinidad Jones fight which sounds crazy now (their actual fight notwithstanding) but seemed almost like logical choice.

 

I couldn´t see it live but only two days later on delay after downloading it since there was no stream and it wasn´t shown in Germany. I avoided the result though. When I watched it, I was so excited and hyped. That was history in the making. In the 12th I had tears in my eyes - no homo.

 

Not true. DLH's fight with Tito. Nuff said.

 

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