Hopkins' Heart

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  1. The Kurgan

    The Kurgan Boxing Junkie banned

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    Rate it between 1 (Charlie Zelenoff) and 10 (Joe Frazier).
     
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    nastynas Boxing Addict Full Member

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    quit against Dawson, Echols, and Allen. Had no intention of actually fighting against Calzaghe. Talked **** about Roy Jones, James Toney for 5 years but had no actual intention of fighting them.

    So, you tell me.
     
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    Hopkins has a heart of titanium.
    Always the underdog, and always winning.
     
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    Does winning as an underdog prove heart?
     
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    bailey Loyal Member Full Member

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    Good post. He wanted timeout against Echoles, Calzaghe, Jones Jnr, couldnt continue against R Allen or Dawson and is now looking past Dawson.
    Hopkins is good when it is going his way but when its not, its a different story

    Very amusing :lol:. Look at how Hopkins fought through adversity against Dawson and Allen 1
     
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    Looked good on Peterson last night. Hopkins is 100x that. :yep
     
  8. realsoulja

    realsoulja Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    If Hopkins had not heart, or little heart, he could/would have retired after losing to Taylor.

    If Hopkins had been a *****, he would have ran away from the sport to participate in some dance competition and sniff coke and smoke weed. :lol:

    Hopkins got more brain than heart.
     
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    5-6/10.

    He's had some unquestionably gutty performances, but the number of fights in which he's wanted (and occasionally, gotten) out of just can't be ignored or excused.
     
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    Bernard simply plays and jokes with all of you. Something like throwing a flag to the floor, make dozens of Ricans run after him, get Tito mad and wins based on cool, cold blooded performance in front of thousands in MSG. Nard is getting old but he has class and he is all a boxing specimen so quit that small talk about heart cause he would bite every single nose of yours off.
     
  11. Zmora

    Zmora Sława!!! Full Member

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    If fighting young champion at 46 doesn't prove that then what? He doesn't need to prove anything still dedicates himself to the sport and has some great success.

    Most of you are probably basing your opinions on Dawson fight but hey, he's a boxer not wrestler and doesn't need to know how to fall after a takedown. And why would he fight if something was hurting him after other guy fouled him?
     
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    So many keyboard warriors in this thread. The way you lot were talking, I'd think the thread was about Cintron ffs.
     
  13. cesare-borgia

    cesare-borgia Übermensch in fieri Full Member

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    He showed heart vs mercado and pascal, I say about an 8, dude has heart.
     
  14. Daruf

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    8.5/10 , and in his younger days probably even higher.
    I think at his current age though his Brain has a higher rating than his Heart.

    He just came of 2 fights against a young lion in his own back yard, even getting dropped twice in the first fight.
    How anyone questions his heart is beyond me.
     
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    Typical G heart , when beating up smaller men in Oscar and Felix , he wants to post his **** on youtube.

    Comes up against men he should have always fought in Calzaghe and Dawson , gets his ass tapped and then pulls all manner of tricks.

    True Gangsta , should hang out with Zab Judah and throw stools at each other.