Has Hopkins ever fought a decent fighter at their own weight class?

Rjj, though Roy soon moved from middle.

 

So basically all the people he's fought at the correct weight, he got smacked the **** out of by?

 

It's not even a top 5 win of his, hell, not even at MW. Johnson was a flat out journeyman at the time.

 

Tarver

 

Just Tarver. And his resume would be mediocre, if it wasn't for the wins over a shot Jones.

 

I would hardly say Calzaghe smacked the **** out of him.

 

Now English, just because this forum is overloaded with Calzaghe-haters doesn't mean we have to start pissing all over Bernard.

The man's an ATG and a living legend.


Occasionally, he fails to properly mask a bit of an attitude problem, but his greatness is unquestionable.


ANd besides, as a purely practical matter, if you denigrate the executioner, you are implicitly downgrading the significance of one of Joe's more important victories.

 

Jones
Taylor
Tarver
Echols
Eastman
Holmes

Some great some decent.

 

Ok, he beat he to a quivering jelly, made he resort to cheating, and just prior to that, ring raped him.

 

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So ?

 

Undefeated journey man? I never heard of that. Glen Johnson was a great win for BHOP and I would put that as his 3rd best.

 

Agree there the only Great is Jones.

Tarver and Taylor though are more than "Decent"

The rest i wrote i think can be described as "decent".


But youre leaving off Tito,Pavlik,Wright,DLH,Jackson etc on the basis that they didnt start at MW, and thats not how a resume is defined, whether you think it should be or not.