Got to see Hopkins live last night....

Hey, how was the crowd at the stadium? What is capacity and how many attended?

As for your analysis, i completely disagree. I thought he looked great. It was a "tune up" fight and Ornelas was the perfect opponent to make Hopkins fight hard to enough where he had to use most of his skills to win. He was breaking Ornelas down from the 6th on. He did a little bit of everything. I do agree that he got hit a bit but that was on the onside, where i'm sure he expected to get hit some to give some.

 

crowd was like 6000 or something

 

What is capacity?

 

I think its 10K for basketball so probably more

 

Damm, that's pretty sad for Hopkins in that he can't even sell out a 10K stadium in his farewell fight in his hometown. How many "legends" had this problem? But hard core fans will always appreciate him.

 

I had it 2-2 after four and either 6-2 or 5-3 after 8. The only question after that point was whether he'd get the stoppage or not. I think Reg was right, he had to work off some rust early. Ornelas caught him with more than a few nice right hands, he impressed me in there.

Bernard's stamina is still a thing of beauty. Didn't look winded in the least after 12 competitive rounds.

But... Roy's loss cost him a payday, and it also cost him a high level fight he could look good in. I don't see how he competes at heavyweight with his frame, and I don't see him beating Dawson with the reflexes he has left.

I honestly only want to see him in about two or three more fights. Fight Dawson or Haye, maybe fight Toney for the history books, then a farewell fight and start commentating or training.

 

He was off for over a year. He was rusty. After he shook the rust off he took over and started to look more himself. I think he'll look better in his next outing after taking this tune-up, but I do think he's lost a little step since the Pavlik fight.

 

Rough part of the country and this is a recession...

 

Just treasure the time you had, mate. I agree with your observations about the great Bernard Hopkins, I could only see a shot version of my favorite fighter live. I'll always be able to say I saw the great Marco Antonio Barrera in action though, and that's good enough for me. All of this talk of Hopkins going to Heavyweight, needs to stop.

 

Disagree, thought he looked fine. A few less certain moments but as the fight progressed he dominated and won easily.

I think you can put a lot down to the inactivity, that can hurt anybody nevermind a 44 yr old. Plus this is not really a fight like Pavlik that would get somebody like Hopkins fired up, it was just a case of doing the job.

 

This is why he should just fight Jones. Any of the young guys are gonna beat him, maybe not badly, but he won't be particularly competitive with them.

 

That's Mayweather mentality there mate.

 

lol So true but i got to give Mayweather credit cause hes really ready to fight Paq Man! We the fans forced him so lets all just pat ourselves on the back