Hopkins' Best Victory

Trinidad and Pavlik were both awesome

 

Tito

 

Give sometime for Mayweather to become old news and yesteryear generation and people won't give him much **** for it.

Nard still gets **** for fighting smaller men, but I think after all he has done over the past couple of years and has now sorta comfortably started to fade into that gentle night...people won't be too harsh anymore.

 

naw, b-hop was a 3-1 dog and he bet $1k on himself which was confirmed by jim during the fight.

a cool mill would have been the most savage bet ever -thats some jordan **** rite there.

 

Calzaghe's greatest victory was calling himself a champion when all he held was the friggin IBO strap for a decade and allowing Sven Ottke to retire undefeated and avoiding Marcus Beyer and Eric Lucas.

Mikkel Kessler wins respect from me because he was the only mother****er who was willing to break the SMW stalemate by going to the other guys backyard, win or lose.

PS **** Frank Warren.

 

Glad you mentioned that one, it's a pretty underappreciated win by BHop, maybe a lot of people haven't seen it.
Johnson wasn't yet the grizzled vet we see today, but a technically solid 32-0 fighter, and Hopkins dominated him every second of the fight, constantly bouncing on his feet and snapping out 80-90 punches a round in a technically near-perfect performance. It's always one of the fights i point to when nitwits label Hopkins a 'boring fighter'.

However it was an under the radar type of fight, neither guy had a big name yet and Johnson hadn't yet beaten anybody of note, and so even if it had been an option in this poll i would still have voted Trinidad.

 

For me it's the Trinidad fight. Not only was it a superb performance but it was historically important for the division and represented him overcoming boxing politics.

 

Don't forget B-Hop remains the only man to have stopped Johnson also.

 

Trinidad. But Tarver was the most satisfying for me.

Most people thought Hopkins was well past it for that fight...

 

Yep. And it wasn't even a proper KO, it was a TKO. Hopkins hit him with everything but the stool, still Glen wouldn't go down or quit.

 

In terms of legacy the Tito win will be his most defining fight. But I think the Tarver win really sealed his greatness for me. Hopkins had his detractors before who said he picked on naturally smaller men at middle but by jumping up 2 divisions and beating Tarver he disproved that nonsense.

 

I say Trinidad just because before that one, people questioned how good he really was. I was one of those who at the time was going for Trinidad, and thought Benard Hopkins was pretty good, but haden't really been tested. I think that fight showed a lot of people how skillfull he really was. The victories after that were also brilliant, but the Trinindad victory started it all.

 

Trinidad then Pavlik.