Battle of the Old Men: BHop v Archie Moore

No lhw is knocking out bhop

 

Fighting a great puncher in his prime at 50 and still couldn't be knocked out

 

Hopkins stands no chance and takes a beating over 12 or 15 or however long it is scheduled for. But he makes the distance.

 

I'm pretty sure that Hopkins would have been knocked out if Kovalev went all out for a stoppage.

 

:deal Kovalev held back imo till BHop ticked him off. I think he wanted to show he could out-box Hopkins.

 

I'm not buying the idea that kovalev didn't want to be the first man to ko hopkins

 

Seemed to me that Sergey wanted to prove that he was a better boxer and that simply KOing BHop with youth and power would have detracted from that statement. Hey, I could be wrong.

 

Kov went like 70% (still put him down) and went ALL OUT in the twelfth.

If Kovalev even replicated that for three rounds he'd have laid 'Nard out.

 

Totally agree. Promotors don't pay overtime rates. If Kov could have outboxed him for a few rounds then taken him out he would have. It is sheer stupidity to think he boxed Hopkins for 12 rounds because he " wanted " to.

 

Ill pick moore in a fight to a decision. Itd be interesting but i find myself trying to figure out how hopkins would handle moore. I dont really have to think too hard to see moore in this fight so that tells me hopkins loses.

 

At times it DID look as though Sergei was holding back and giving the old man a break. He certainly didn't go after him with the same sort of tenacity that he absolutely demolished Pascal and Cleverly with. But there were several versions of both Moore and Hopkins. I think in most instances B-Hop could have gone the distance and on an off night even upset Archie. Bernard was never stopped in many fights and was still beating world class opponents in his mid to late forties. As great as Moore was, he was also survived by lesser men than Hopkins and even beaten by a few of them.

 

I think Kovalev held back to prevent Hopkins countering him. It was perfectly obvious what Hopkins was trying to do. Countering Kovalev was the only real way Hopkins could fight, at that age.

Sergey played it safe and not without reason, since Hopkins did catch him with some decent counters. But certainly it was strategic and not to prove some half-****d point.

To the topic at hand...Archie's natural weight and he was one of the best 175'ers ever. Logically it's his fight to lose.