Calzaghe resume = Hopkins resume?

This has quite literally never been discussed before.

 

Oooo here we go.... again.

 

more to the point what do you consider bhops best wins and joes best wins....put aside assent to the lhw crown for a second

 

ever

 

listen i'm a massive JC fan but Hopkins resume kicks his ****ing arse man

:deal

 

Tito Trinidad, the Golden Boy, Antonio Tarver, Winky Wright, Kelly Pavlik, Glen Johnson, are some of the big names on Bernard's record (I obviously haven't included RJJ and Jermaine Taylor).

It's reasonable to call that a legendary resume.

 

bhop moved up two weight classes and dominated tarver. completely dominated him. beat winky also. he also took my boy out behind the woodshed and pitched a complete shutout. combine that with what you have and it may help clear things up

 

Don't be so hard on KP man he stepped up took a gamble didn't pay off

 

Agreed. I would venture to say if you combine the 2 lists of their wins, 4 out of the top 5 wins would belong to Hopkins. Aside from that, after the wins mentioned for Calzaghe, aside from him beating Hopkins, his opponents would fall off precipitously.

 

c'mon man, tarver and johnson are B level fighters at best

tito and oscar much lighter fighters

pavlik = lighter fighter

plus he's lost to jones, taylor twice, and calzaghe. hopkins seems to get praise for losing fights

 

oh i've been a fan since his early days and he'll be my guy until he hangs'em up. but it is what it is. i still can't bring myself to watch it again. but you are very right. he moved up and lost to an atg. there shouldnt be any shame in that but its reason for many to hate on him.

but it literally was a shutout.

 

:goodi give him credit for taking a fight against a brilliant fighter in what was essentially a no win situation. pavlik should get more respect, not less, for that fight