Just re-watched Hopkins-Trinidad

One of my favourite BHop fights and the one I've probably watched the most. 3-1 underdog who was expected to try and fail to maul Tito on the inside totally shocked everyone by putting on a display of pure boxing. Hopkins breakout fight and the one that announced him to the world as a top P4P fighter and an ATG middleweight.

Foreman was clearly biased. He had fallen for the Tito hype like so many others and just like everyone else had forgotten the flaws De La Hoya exposed in his fight with Trinidad.

 

I'd put it on par with his performance against Zaggers. He lost a SD with a legend and H2H nightmare and came up a little short, but kept it close at times. Anybody that loses a SD to Calzaghe must be really ****ing good.

 

Great performance but my favourite was against Johnson. And Joe Lippey who was a savage ko artist. Hop destroyed him.

 

In this fight you saw Prof Hopkins holding class He schooled Trinidad
I saw earlier someone mentioned the cowardly welsh slapper ROFL
A gift is not a legitimate win Joe but youre going to try to believe it

 

ROFLMAO are you serious??? Slappy Joe a legend?? He might be close to being a legendary cherry Picker Hopkins was ROBBED!!

 

do some of you truly believe the great calz was lucky he got the dec over hops ? from what I remember hops won one round and that was due to the KD, other than that single shot KD super joe dominated hops in embarrassing fashion..

the reason I say embarrassing fashion is because hops couldn't hang and was faking low blows and rabbit punches to try buying time and trying to buy points so he could finish the fight on his feet.

he spent more time rolling around trying for the DQ win more than actually trying to win rounds. Super Joe is Hops daddy

 

Tito was no big deal at MW. He beat a paper champ (Joppy) before fighting Hopkins and got exposed for being to small at MW.

 

ROFLMAO @ the GREAT Calz !!!! That clown didnt throw 30 LEGITIMATE scoring punches all fight long. He slapped like a schoolgirl. Plus he got put on his cowardly ass AGAIN!!!!
Watch the fight again that LOW SLAP was a blatant foul so were the rabbit punches. Yet not one warning, but when you look who the ref was, that was no surprise
If you think Slappy won this fight so easy explain this to me??
Why did he turn down a rematch at home in Wales??? That would have been great for his welsh fans. Instead Slappy took the cowards way out shot a finger to his fans & retired.
He then made headlines getting caught sniffing coke, getting drunk, dumping his long time G/F & chasing skanky ho's in clubs
Oh Yeah he was The Great Calz alright ROFLMAO:hi:

 

Tito has trouble when his opponent has lateral movement and boxes his ass off. De La Hoya proved it for several rounds but took his foot off the gas pedal. Hopkins saw that and was on Tito's ass all night long. Winky proved it again and, in my opinion, in a much more dominant fashion. I don't think it was a matter of him being too small for MW, more of he really doesn't know what to do against someone who can move.

 

No, it wouldn't have.

That "fight" ( if you can call it that) was ATROCIOUS.

NOTHING hapened, for 11 rds.

Al least Joe tried to press and make it a contest. Borenard chose to run all night, and then cry over the decision.

The same thing he did vs Kovalev, when after 60 sec he understood he had no chance.

Borenard might have scored more meaningfull punches, but he lost the right to dispute the decision by being so negative.

Good thing Calzone never gave him a rematch. :hat

 

I don't think he was lucky, he deserved the decision. But to say Bhop only win one round is simply wrong. Enzo was screaming at Joe before the final round saying he needed the KO, his own corner thought it was close.

At the time I had Calzaghe winning a clear decision but it was closer than I initially thought, a lot of Calzaghe's shot's simply didn't land and Hopkins was landing clean, hard single counters but it was hard to see that, as while Calzaghe was taking the cleaner, harder shots he was the one flurrying at the end of each exchange so it gave the impression he was winning each exchange when he wasn't.