Hopkins at 40 jumped from 160-175 to fight the best

Nobody is pushing Golovkin to fight Kovalev but message board trolls.

My point is very valid. You give an example of a 40 year old man moving up after he loses his belt, and ask Golovkin to do the same. Ok, wait for him to lose his belts and turn 40....

Hopkins didn't move up to fight Tarver because he was pushed. He had no options at middle after losing to Taylor twice, and Tarver was a better match up for him than Calzaghe.

 

I don't care about what you think GGG should do.

Is the thread starter saying "GGG should move up because of your perception of what a star should be?" NO.

The thread starter is asking GGG to do the same as Hopkins.

Is vacating titles and moving up in weight at 34 years of age the same thing Hopkins did? No.

 

This is the intelligence level on display.

It's like telling a 34 year old to knock up his girlfriend because his 50 year old brother got married and had a kid when he was 40.

 

He may move up to SMW within the next few years.

Let's just wait and see how his career unfolds.

 

Hopkins has a big frame for a light heavyweight 3 inches taller than Golovkin and 5 inches more reach. Moreover, he was a natural light heavy who killed himself to slim down to 160 and fight smaller overmatched opponents while ducking Roy Jones, James Toney, and all the other killers at super middleweight and light heavyweight in the first half of his career. When they were all washed up he jumped into a vastly diluted light heavyweight pool of nobodies to beat stepping stones like Shumenov and Murat. He jumped over Andre Ward and Carl Froch when that division was heating up.

I'll give him credit for Pavlik, Tarver, Calzaghe, Pascal, and Kovalev, but that's the kind of guys he should have been fighting all along, and let's face it, he lost to Calzaghe, Kovalev, and Dawson when he finally stepped up.

 

He fought Roy Jones at 160 so he didn't duck him.

He didn't kill himself to make 160 otherwise he wouldn't have been able to compete at such a high level there, he is just a slim guy for his height.

 

He still fought the guy who was the #1 in the division at the time (Calzaghe) at a weight that was beneficial to them both.

I think he also called out Froch but Froch/Hearn wasn't interested.

 

I can't speak for or say what Rumsfield is thinking but to me it's the exact opposite of what he's trying to say. Golovkin has pressure from fans to move up to bigger challenges such as Ward who is campaigning at LHW but despite that GGG actually has less pressure to do it than Hopkins. People can set here and say that Hopkins had a place set in history before his move but that would just be projecting their own satisfaction onto Bhop. Bhop has the mentality that I love in a fighter. No matter is your name is in history or not, that place can be improved upon indefinitely. As Bhop is still proving today, he still has desire to further his rank among the record books and strive for a greater legacy. I can only imagine that that desire was greater at 40 years old. Bhop was not getting the attention he deserved from fans and the media so it put pressure on him to do something that nobody should expect a fighter to do in order to achieve something that only he has the willingness to achieve. More pressure than Golovkin has on him to do that same.

Wait until Golovkin has achieved his first goal before you judge his desire to improve his legacy. It takes time and small steps. After all, A fighters career can last over 20 years. It's easy to get impatient when you visit the same forum and complain every day during those 20 years.

 

lol they're making response threads to my threads as well