devise a strategy to defeat Bernard Hopkins

Just hire Enzo Calzaghe.


That's if you can all get your mouths off Hopkins' **** for enough time to actually speak to Enzo about the plan. :yep

 

He couldn´t even give his own son enough advise to beat Hopkins :tong

 

The words for today are "Silly Catchweight Fights...for aging boxers."
For example, If Bernard Hopkins fights Kelly Pavlik at Kelly's middleweight belt level, and beats him, then people can provide all the accolades to Hopkins. Right now with these catchweight fights its all about the money and proves little. Boxing is becoming more like wrestling with these silly fights, e.g., Pacman vs De La Hoya. Oh, Hopkins TKO's De Lay Hoya...does that make De La Hoya one dimensional ?
BHop and Pavlik proved nothing. Pavlik still has the middleweight belt. And, a nice fat paycheck. It's all showmanship, snake oil and mirrors. Let BHop fight Kelly P at the middleweight level for the championship. In fact, let
BHop fight any champion at the respective weight class for all the marbles, then when he becomes a champion again we can all say how great he is. These catchweight fights just provide aging fighters like BHop with a few more pay days. They are basically exhibition fights with no meaning, no title belt on the line, and have no impact on historical greatness.
I don't recall if Ali, Marciano, L. Lewis,
Tony Zale, R. Graziano, Sugar Ray, fought at these catchweight fights for non-title belts. Maybe they did. But, it seems boxing has changed and these fights are more or less a day at the gym for these professionals who can easily pull the wool over your eyes.
If I was a 26 year old middleweight champion (with many more fights on the horizon) and I was offered 3 million to fight a 43 year old and my belt was not on the line, hell yeah--I'll take the money.

Just my opinion.
KMcDee:hat

 

He did. Your opinion means ****. :hi:

 

The criteria is PEAK Hopkins not old faded Hop that run Calz close

 

Please climb back under the rock you just emerged from.

 

Oh, ok. Ask Roy Jones then. :good

 

Well, to me it means everything

 

Oh, so Jones beat a peak Hopkins now :rofl

 

People like you and Powerpuncher score fights before they see them. I can even fill his Jones-Calzaghe card for him now if he wants. We know how it's going to read anyway.

 

P-E-A-K!!!!!!!

If you're claiming Hopkins was peak (yes) for Jones we all need to move on

:bbb

Or YOU do

 

IF it goes the distance Dinner!

 

Well he improved as his nemesis had finally jumped ship, so he could get on with beating far lesser lights (and by 'lesser'' I mean 'shite'). When rematch talk came about in 2001 the consensus still picked Jones to win, even Hopkins pole smokers felt that it was 50/50 (which translates as they thought a Jones repeat victory was probable).

 

Oh really?

 

Ha ha, even you thought Hopkins-Jones around 2001/02 would probably be won by Jones. Suffering some memory loss it seems. :hi: