Dick Tiger vs. Bernard Hopkins

I like this very much Longhhorn71!!!

 

And this I like very much too Russell!!

 

Hey Cobra! How's this weekend treating you so far, sir? Anything good planned?

 

“Good trombone player”

 

Just work unfortunately...but that's ok,...I can remember an even grimmer time...with no work, lol...how're you doing Russell?

 

I lean towards Hops on a stylistic basis I think, by dint of his lateral movement and defensive nous. I think he'd be negative though, leading to a boring fight where both don't land much and he bitches and complains to the ref every so often. Tiger's strength and technical ability would make him very wary I think, especially once he tasted it first hand at close quarters with most subsequent work being about trying to make Tiger look bad enough to lose a close fight. As opposed to imposing himself and his full repertoire of tricks to win proactively as he did against lesser, more inexperienced guys with fewer tools in their boxes. Make it a footwork fight as much as possible and not a brawl nor a counterpunching contest at mid/close range where Tiger excelled. Keep him from setting his feet too often and try to ambush him with quick, single shots before extracting himself or haranguing the ref to protect him while snidely trying to land a rabbit punch to disrupt when Tiger manages to catch him at close quarters and give him more than a taste of his own medicine. He'd have to be careful not to let Tiger win by force of pure work rate though.

Hopkins by a point or two in a non-starter, maybe. I'd want Tiger to donkey punch the snaggle-toothed old **** though.