You do make a good point if hopkins is rated p4p number 4 at the moment. Calzaghe win is quite a big one. It doesnt seem fair to rate hopkins so high and when he loses say that he is old and shot. Should a old and shot fighter be rated so high by the ring???:huh This was also the case with hatton win over tzyu. Tyzu was p4p at the time. Also cotto's win over mosley who is p4p number 3 at this time. They cant be old and shot one minute then be rated p4p the next. Cotto never got the credit he deserved for that fight.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/boxing/4181323.stm Hopkins is 3, I would assume they got this from an official source. Yes I agree with your Cotto statement too, especially as people want to see Mosley vs Mayweather (myself inc)
Perhaps someone will be kind enough to explain to you the difference between "smashed" and "split decision", and "prime" and "43 years old". Hopefully they will also give a a quick guide to these things we have in boxing called "weight classes" because I know from past experience that this is an issue you have trouble understanding. :good
A: I have already done that B: when I said Junior Middleweight 154lbs, I put a ? because that was your weight. I'm tired of these no show , no pic ESB keyboard thugs. [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_q1wu82k84[/ame] pwned.
Don't know about the greatest, but he is certainly one of them. Not of this time but all times. I really admire what BHOP has done and should be an example to follow. After jail he really dedicated himself and that is why, AT HIS ****ING AGE, he still has a great physical condition. As good shape as BHOP has, its impossible to call a 42 year old "PRIME" Plus, Split desicion is very far from smash.
If Hopkins had had another big win this year, he would have been breathing down Pac's neck for 'Fighter of the Decade'. But whatever, Hopkins certainly belongs in the HOF, is an ATG and also a Modern Legend of the sport.
Anyone who thinks that Hopkins got smashed by Calzaghe didnt watch the fight. Power shots. LOL. If you like him or not, Hopkins is clearly one of the top Middlewleghts ever & also one of the best of his era.
He got one judge giving him teh home gift, I gave Hopkins maybe 4 rounds, more likely 3. Hopkins started late in his career, he is currently p4p 3, now I can not be sure, but i think 3 is the highest hes ever been, though I admit I could be wrong there. Also, look how he battered Pavlik, this is a guy, that people said would beat calzaghe, and Hopkins brutilised him.
hopkins was old. hopkins knocked joe on his ass. joe never hurt hopkins.... joe won the fight by a bit, he landed more and was busier and by the end hopkins was tired...but to say he "smashed" hopkins is false and ridiculous. furthermore JC never stepped one little UK toe over the pond when the likes of RJJ, Hop, Toney, Mcallum were in there fierce younger days. Joe was an all-time great but he picked his fights more carefully than any other HOF guys of our era.
:yepAngosaxon, Are you serious? Your hitting doll without any head movement. Show some sparring and I might be impressed. Why are you humping the floor?:?
Anglosaxon, COULD BE wrong. Bhop was P4P for years until the Taylor fight. You have no idea what your talking about pal.atsch