@175 Oversized Oscar, Tubby Tito, Waddling Winky

As was I...tho I dont concede that Tito wasnt just fine at MW. He literally KILLED himself to make WW for his last couple of fights...and when he finally did move up, HE DESTROYED the number 3 MW in the world. Like noone had before, or has since. He was also a very large favorite going in.

But his biggest/most impressive wins if you ask me are...

1- Tito
2- Johnson
3- Tarver (not just because of who he beat...but the circumstances behind the win....the moving up, the age he did it in, the fact that he didnt take a tune up, the DOMINANCE he showed over a fighter who had never been dominated and was considered the MAN at that weight....AND who the fighter was...)
4- Winky (for the reasons I mentioned in my first post)
5- Jackson (Bernard was MASTERFUL in this fight...I suggest if you have never seen it you should go watch it...vs a very smart, very talented fighter...who had only lost once previous to this in a fight where he was winning BIG but was caught late...a fight that was incidently FOTY)

...I wouldnt add DLH in until after Joppy, Echols or Holmes.

 

The Echols fight amazed me. Echols bodyslammed hopkins (which injuried his shoulder). Hopkins could have retired but instead knocked Echols out. Great

 

Actually, Hopkins said in the run up to the Tarver fight that his natural weight was 175lbs. I think his trainer said the same thing. it's only because of his fantastic work ethic that he was able to make 160lbs all those years, but, according to Hopkins himself, his best fighting weight was 175lbs.

 

Im looking at it right now and it states that Hopkins was 177, which is over the limit....IF YOU WEIGHT MORE THEN THE LIMIT THEN YOUR NOT FIGHTING AT THAT LIMIT. WHICH IS THE REASON THAT THEY HAVE LIMITS.
:verysad