Until he is beaten. Based on longevity and quality of opposition. Everyone with a brain knows he beat Taylor, so in the last 2 years he has beaten the man at 154 (Winky), the man at 160 (Taylor) and the man at 175 (Tarver). And he beat a younger version of Oscar much more convincingly than Mayweather did. The winner of Mayweather-Hatton can pass him and Manny can also pass him if he beats Marquez but as for now Nard is still the top dog and if he beats Calzaghe he is no 1 no matter what.
for the taylor - hopkins thing. it was a close fight wasnt a robbery big difference to say it was a robbery totally shows that he was robbed twice...peple even mix the 2 matches together like it was 1 fight
Look, Nobody said it was one sided. But sometimes close fights have clear winners. For example: Mayweather-DLH was a close fight but Floyd clearly deserved the decision. Hopkins clearly deserved the decision against Taylor, even if the margin is not wide (2-4 points).
Oh **** here we go again. :-( :huh Everybody knows Bhops lost twice to Taylor on a close point decission. Live with it dude, you're making yourself look stupid.:yep
Is this thread a joke. BHop with 2 consecutive losses to Taylor, a win over Tarver who lets be honest, p4p is nothing special, and a good win over Winky is suddenly p4p no.1 when floyd hasn't lost, and just went up ANOTHER weight division and beat a future HOF in Oscar. As opposed to Hop who made Oscar come up to fight him. Your kidding yourself. I think BHop with his recent win could be considered no.2 p4p, but even then its debatable as to whether Pac should be placed higher.
you could go on all day saying that bhop was robbed of one or two victories over taylor but that fact of the matter is he lost dude. there are two more marks in bhops loss column because of taylor. PBF is a multiple division champ who haven't lost yet. how could you put bhop on top of him?
my thing is this bhop was p4p1 until that bs in the 1st taylor fight.i the fight should have been a draw or win for bhop, no way he should have lost the titles to jt in that fight. winky wright is number p4p 2 and bhop just beat him, so if you think bhop was robbed in the 1st jt fight and he just beat winky not to mention tarver before.well damn what you can you expect. i want call bhop number 1 but damn i say he is 3 maybe. pbf 1 pac 2 only because winky just loss other then that he would be number 2 bhop 3 some **** like that but i will tell you this if bhop was able to beat jc in a mega fight.then he would be number 1 in my book.pbf will have to win over mosley or hatton.
I Don't know how anyone thought Taylor beat Hopkins the 1st go around but he's long since avenged those losses ..I personally don't mind that he be put atop the p4p list .
It's reasonable to have Hopkins top 5 pound for pound. He gets lumped together with Winky and Taylor in my opinion. Pac and Mayweather are still ahead of this group. Rafa Marquez, JM Marquez and Hatton are right in the mix as well.
I have Winky as my number 2 and Bhops just beat him ..Manny isn't as technically sound as Bhops so I personally put him ahead ..And Taylor I didn't see him in most people's top 5 ..