Hopkins win v trinidad - is it hugely overated?

:verysadNo buddy, they didn't duck a rematch with "Tito" Trinidad, if you want to accuse anybody of ducking in this particular instance besides Trinidad himself than fairly speaking it would be his promoter Don King.

Let's be fair here as I stated earlier on this thread Don King was the one who didn't want to rematch Trinidad against Bernard "The Executioner" Hopkins after B-Hop's huge sensational upset tko win over him in 2001 and four years later after Trinidad's huge one-sided decision loss to Winky Wright no one who saw the fight, except for Winky himself since it would've meant $7-million dollars gaurenteed, wanted to see a rematch because that's how bad "Tito" got beat. And last but not least, three years and another ending retirement later came another fairly lopsided decision lost, this one to Roy Jones Jr., in a fight that as I recall no one was screaming for an encore.

You can also accuse the Trinidad/Don King duo of ducking an immediate rematch with Oscar De La Hoya in 1999 following their controversial decisioned match when King wanted to do the rematch at a catchweight of 150-151lbs, while having Trinidad the champion leave his at the time unified IBF/WBC Ring Magazine World Welterweight title on ice for insurance and practically giving Oscar nothing to fight back for at bigger risks and all the while demanding a bigger slice of the PPV%'s while Oscar clearly was still the big PPV draw at the time.

And to close out while we're at it why not accuse the Trinidad/Don King duo of ducking a fight with a still in his primed Pernell "Sweet Pea" Whittaker when he was the defending World Welterweight Champion and the #1 P.F.P. fighter in the world following his controversial 1993 draw with Julio Ceasar Chavez and before his 1997 controversial decision loss to De La Hoya. The Whittaker who fought those two fights along with most of the matches in between like his two fights with Buddy McGirt and Julio Ceasar Vasquez, at 154lbs, was untouchable and King knew this so that's why it wasn't until early 1999 and following Whittaker's one year suspension for testing positive for cocaine in a post fight urinalysis that King wouldn't put "Tito" Trinidad or even 3-time World Jr. Middleweight Champion "Terrible" Terry Norris for that matter anywhere near Pernell, so who was ducking who?

 

This win was way better than Calzaghe's win over Lacy.