I don't understand how anyone can disrespect Bernard Hopkins.

How about the fact he has turned into a complete ***** over the last 5 years fakes getting fouled and quit in his last match....


Keith

 

He has spoiled his reputation by faking injuries in fights, If it wasn't for the Linares fight his card would of been a waste of money. B-Hop don't give a **** about the fans, and that is why we may never see him on PPV again.

 

He's a old and creaky, give the guy a break. My grandad is a little bitter and complains a lot too about every little thing

 

He constantly fights dirty and now is faking injuries. Did you expect people to like those attributes?

 

The fact that Hopkins is 47 and fighting at a world class level is respectable and admireable. With Hopkins there is a "however". The however is that he will do anything not to lose.

 

Hopkins is one of my favorites and has been through, seen, and overcome stuff that would make most people on here curl up into a ball and cry, but....he brings a lot of the disrespect on himself. He's done a lot of questionable things in the ring, especially lately. He loves to play the system, and for the people who pay for his fights, they're probably not going to take kindly to that.

 

Fake injuries? Why did Hopkins has to do so? The reason why I asked this was becasuse it was just round 2 so it was still a long way to go. Hopkins wasn't losing the fight and we all know that he always gets stronger and stronger when the fight goes the distance.
I'm not Hopkins fan but I don't hate him.

 

This was a good one also

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He didn't fake ****. He went to the hospital, had an x-ray done and was diagnosed with a separated shoulder.

 

I have never been Hopkins' biggest fan, but I have never been able to understand this deal about some posters assuming he faked the injury in the Dawson fight. It makes no sense, to me.

 

Hopkins in his own mind thinks he's on the level of Sugar Ray Robinson, on ability i don't think he's a all-time great. His middle-weight reign is totally overrated, he fought two blown up welterweights, a fat Oscar De La Hoya and a one dimensional Felix Trinidad...?? A legend...???

Chris Eubank
Nigel Benn
James Toney

All fought better fighters at Middleweight/Supermiddleweight, all of them. Chris Eubank went 20/21 Championship fights undefeated over Middleweight and SupermiddleWeight, and he beat guys like Nigel Benn & Michael Watson, real Middleweights. And then there's James Toney, by far a better resume than Bernard Hopkins.

I personally cannot stand Bernard Hopkins. I give him credit for his achievements past 40, but deep down people have been getting carried away. Because boxing has become that ****, from a technical point of view if Bernard Hopkins was 30 years old "Right Now" nobody would be talking about him.

"Because technically and physically as a fighter, he's nothing out of this world"

I slate him from time to time on twitter, and i will continue to do this. He's a dirty fighter, a pathological liar aswell.

 

and this is why I don't understand it. People keep accusing Bernard for pretending to get a lot pain.:?

 

He was having more trouble in the first 2-3 rounds of BOTH Pascal fights, but a lot of people seem to believe he was getting his ass kicked and on his way to getting stopped against Dawson. Looked more like a replay of the first half of the Jermain Taylor fights to me :conf

 

Aye, the combination of him being through much worse, and recently fairly worse, and against a guy who beat Dawson, and being nearly 180-years-old...no, I really don't think I've ever been on the same page with "he quit". :huh