Hopkins farewell fight against Smith

LOL @ all the haters!

How old was Hopkins?

Why you guys mad that he's an ATG? hahaha

 

Marciano-Louis is the more brutal daddy of Smith-Hopkins.

Rocco KO'ing Joe might just be the worst one, all things considered. At least off the top of my head.


I disagree that Hopkins had lost all the rounds to Smith, there were glimmers of the old spark there, and those fumes were enough to sneak him a 10-9 or two. But he had looked ominously shaky in a number of them.

Doing that fight after two years inactive at 51 (almost 52) was naive for such a guru of the game.

Retiring on being the first to take Sergey Kovalev the distance was honorable enough.

I get why he wanted to have a farewell bash with all the trimmings, but boxing is rarely kind to vanity projects.

 

Exactly the man was 50 fighting a prime ko artist he had balls and should be applauded instead he's laughed at.

 

You mean his first loss against Maskaev?

 

Laughed at by the worst possible type of fans boxing has.

I can't imagine mocking a fighter for losing, let alone losing when being in his late 40's.

 

Loved every second of it. Obviously a fresher Bhop would have won but he arrogantly dismissed the crude but dangerous and hardworking Smith. Obviously hasn't gained any class or humility with his whining after the fight claiming he was pushed out even after the replay clearly showed Smith punching him out of the ring. He was able to carry on but in classic BHOP fashion tried to look for a way out when the going got tough.

 

If we're talking about worst losing swansongs in terms of opponent caliber,

the one that turned out to be Pernell Whitaker's final bout, his match with Carlos Bojorquez, was pretty ignominious. Faded Whitaker being cuffed to the canvas while nursing a messed-up shoulder and then waving his own fight off with a look of weary resignation.

 

Certainly was brutal. Worse still they interviewed him!

 

Agreed, that two years of sitting it out at a half-century in age made a clear, perceptible difference. I forgot the Smith bout actually went into the 8th, had remembered it ending in the 6th for some reason, so I might even have had him winning up to three rounds in that fight despite his badly detiorated state.

 

The absolute beyond shell of Muhammad Ali v Berbick

Oscar getting a beat down from pac

 

Nah. Live by the sword die by the sword.
At age 52 it's still very respectable, this is boxing you don't usually get to go out undefeated or in a blaze of glory.

Some of my favourite fighters like Mike Tyson, Erik morales, Roy Jones, meldrick taylor, Roberto duran, Julio Cesar chavez, Miguel Cotto, Shane Mosley, SRL, Holyfield, ali and countless others went out ugly. Some went out quick, others made comeback attempts or extended their agonizing death(in a boxing sense) over several pathetic years far past their prime.
I actually prefer 1-2 devastating defeats over the Holyfield/duran/RJJ/Muhammad Ali type exit where they just stick around until their fans are begging them to quit.

It's just how it is.