You have re-posted the same post about 12 times, which shows your lack of knowledge and your basis for a fighter not being a quality opponent is original weight, again shows your idiocy as a boxing fan. Again, look at Hopkins's legal intake document when he went into prison, 139lbs. lol. Moron. You are breaking down Hopkins's wins against fighters that you KNOW, not his BEST wins. What a lunatic.
o yeah now Tarver isnt **** he only beat roy jones twice and was comin off beating Glen Johnson who even recently these days gave chad dawsona run for his money.
When these ***gots include smiley faces in their post, you know they are just trying to antagonize you and are idiotic, as well as ignorant.
To be fair to Hopkins, Tito struggled for a while to make 147, he was always closer to 154, possibly 160, than 147. Winky Wright was known to walk around at 170 according to Roy Jones. Dela Hoya fight was at a catch weight if i recall, not 160.
Now now, don't go start busting out facts. This kid just wants to (insert a bunch of gay smiley faces) antagonize people. Bow down to the smiley faces please.
Talks about frickin calzaghe who was not known in the us and was fighting up in the uk when tito trinidad was in america at that time and was in bernards division why wasnt roy jones or anyone else jumpin at the bit of fightin calzaghe? Cause the guy was nobody at that time the wins that define his career was jeff lacy and kessler who he fought in 06 and 07 and bernard fought him after the kessler fight.
Whole thing is bernard never fough tnoone cause after he beat the contenders in his diviison they fell apart and never won a title. When u come up like some of his opponants and u gain a stream of knockouts and u finally get to the top in biggest fight of your career and u get dominated and knocked out its gonna effect u mentally Meldrick taylor vs chavez taylor was never same after that or even when your a champion Roy Jones for instance when he got knocked out he went downhill. Antwun echols fell off the earth after his second fight with Bernard or even Mugabi he went on to mediocrity as well but he was knockin everything out in site and was haglers best opponant in my opinion hagler did fight better compeition but to say Bernards compeition sucked because they didnt go on to win world titles is flawed.
Hopkins dominated every single top contender in his division during his prime, anyone who writes off some of these fighters like Antwun Echols, Syd Vanderpool, **** I mean even Lipsey looked like a beast until Hopkins retired him...people writing off guys like that don't know the division very well....Trinidad knocked out William Joppy at 160 quick, which led everyone to say that Hopkins should fight Trinidad, so he did and beat him....Carl Daniels won an IBF title eliminator which led to a mandatory defense by Hopkins...De La Hoya was the one who said "I'd really like to fight Hopkins next" so Hopkins gave him what he wanted....how about a tough Andrew Council who went the distance with Winky Wright and Bernard? Terry Norris couldn't KO Simon Brown, but Hopkins totally obliterated him. I mean for instance, Keith Holmes had just beat the undefeated McCracken, so Bernard gave him a title shot. I know for a fact that this headbanger idiot with his ****** smiley icons saw none of these dudes fight, none of them.
Joe lipsey had a knockout ratio close to 80 percent too and was undefeated Bernard executed one of the most bizaare knockouts ive seen lol.
Look at that feather fisted bum Echols: [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ibtc45FVwKM[/ame] Morons.
I know man, Lipsey was on a ****ing run like some of these morons who don't know the history of the division wouldn't believe. Wait though, let that moron re-post the same thing for the 13th time as if it proves anything because his entire presentation is clearly biased and doesn't factor in that Bernard entered the sport as a fully grown man, had he entered the sport at the same age as the cats he's making excuses for he would have been a welterweight which was the weight he was entering prison at the age of 17.
WOOO that knockout was Ill. But yeah i think its funny that ppl think every fight u take should be against a big star who can draw 700 thousand to million paperviews but they critisize a floyd mayweather for fightin for money. Hopkins gave the fans what they wanted and fought alot and drowned out everyone in his division only had two big money fights in his career.