Could Bernard beat Mikkel Kessler? Calzaghe doesn't think he could...

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  1. Decebal

    Decebal Lucian Bute Full Member

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    First 30 seconds or so...

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    What do you think?

    This video also "proves" how highly Calzaghe thinks of Kessler and how important that win was for him, and rightly so.
     
  2. 196osh

    196osh Mendes Bros. Full Member

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    Kessler is all all wrong for Hopkins. Much more so than even Calzaghe.

    Kessler TKO9
     
  3. I'd give Hopkins an outsider chance on a technicality like a cut but Kessler is all wrong for Hopkins. So so fast, pinpoint accuracy, great stamina and able to dish out punches while on the back foot. Totally wrong for Bernard.
     
  4. Beatboxer

    Beatboxer Well-Known Member Full Member

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    In his prime.. it pains me but Hopkins...just about. Style wise its not going to be pleasant but I do feel a prime Hopkins has more than the current Kessler. Then again we might not yet have seen a prime Kessler.

    Now? Kessler by a nice sustained beatdown.
     
  5. 196osh

    196osh Mendes Bros. Full Member

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    McGrain old chap, care to explain how you see Hopkins beating Kessler now?
     
  6. Krisv1

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    What makes anyone in good mental health think Kessler beats Hopkins?

    Considering Kessler best wins were against averga eB list fighters like Beyer Mundine and Andrade, he has done absolutley 0 to suggest he can beat Hopkins.

    Also after seeing keel over from a body shot from a guy who isnt an effective puncher at world Level, I expect Hopkins to re arange his face.

    Kessler is one of the most over rated guys on this forum. Hes a good looking white guy....and people jump on the bandwagon because of this.
     
  7. Beatboxer

    Beatboxer Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Hopkins trying to convince himself that he can't lost to Calzaghe always amuses me.
     
  8. 196osh

    196osh Mendes Bros. Full Member

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    Hopkins just cannot cut the mustard anymore, he does not have the legs or the workrate to keep Kessler off him and he would eat 1-2's from the dane all day on the way to being stopped.

    Prime Hopkins is a different matter.
     
  9. Kessler would easily beat Taylor, that should answer alot about this fight, then again maybe Kessler and Taylor will fight after Miranda!!
     
  10. McGrain

    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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    I think you guys may be exaggerating how "wrong" Kessler is for Hopkins. He has great timing and makes great angles. He's in against a straight-lines fighter. Coutner-puncher v fast straight-lines technician.

    Nothing like the bad mix you boys seem to think it is.
     
  11. Decebal

    Decebal Lucian Bute Full Member

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    :think
     
  12. 196osh

    196osh Mendes Bros. Full Member

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    Straight lines technician with faster hands and feet and is better at puting punches together than counterpuncher = a bad way for that counterpuncher
     
  13. McGrain

    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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    I totally disagree. Straight-lines is the key phrase here. Hopkins has been beating faster, smaller guys for years based upon his control of the action and the distance. Kessler doesn't (or hasn't, that I have seen) vary his attack in the type of ways neccesary to upset a counterpuncher with these type of generalship skills.

    I think that Kessler's best bet would be to leap on Hopkins but that might not be a thing he is up for/to. I won't insist that Hopkins would win, but I'd see him as a favourite.

    Dec, you shut the **** up :D
     
  14. Decebal

    Decebal Lucian Bute Full Member

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    :D
     
  15. 196osh

    196osh Mendes Bros. Full Member

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    My placement computers block anything that has any swearing in it so....

    I assume somebody swore on page 2, :lol: