Is Hopkins really a one of the ATG?

yo moron: one look at your poll is all it takes to shove that dumbass opinion of yours right back up your ass.

 

No such thing as an"ATG" period imo. You can't just place a fighter great in their time in another era assuming they have the same success. One you have to take account the growth of lifespans and medicine in this time aswell as difference in techniques and rules. Another thing is that's hypothetical and we can only factually go by what fighters did in their time of success and failures.

As far as being dirty, Floyd, Holy, Ali, Lewis, Klits are,etc. most great fighters are stop complaining about it. Every fighter does something either dirty or borderline to bend and/or break the rules. A true "boxing fan" would know this.

 

Not Sugar Ray, but right now, I'd say he's hovering pretty close to Pac, and May. . . I have Pac around 33ish, Floyd around 38ish, and Hopkins around 47ish.

 

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Of course he's dirty but the man is still one of the most skilled fighters the sport has seen and if the fouls are the only thing you see then you aren't watching him. Solid jab, well-schooled defense, and decent bodypunching. Still every fighter does something to have an upperhand within the rules or not. If you studied the sport you'd know this. Can't deny this.

 

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Start from 0:29

Have Hopkins ever display such slickness as that shown by Lewis in that moment?

 

oh look the little child who just started watching boxing and thinks he can form an opinion based on watching a few youtbe vids got owned and proven wrong in his thread and instead of realizing that "hey if 99 percent of people are opposing my opinion maybe I'm the one who's wrong" he throws a hissy fit and starts throwing insults like the immature ***** he is.

accept defeat *****, you got the Brandon Rios/ Prenice Brewer trait. Little kids these days thinkt hey can watch boxing for a year and formulate opinions on all time greats atschatschatsch Your mother should have swallowed you

 

******.

 

He was 47 year old champ. Sure sounds like a punk to me. :-(

 

I used to HATE Hopkins. As I've become wiser I've learned to only have a slight distate for him.

And with all of that said, he is a firm top 30 ATG imo.

 

Two Lineal Championships
Beat Tarver, Pavlik, Trinidad as a big underdog
Other noteworthy wins over Johnson, Wright, Delahoya, Pascal, Mercado, Allen, Holmes, Joppy, Eastman, Brown
Oldest World Champion in History

No question really.

 

he is a legit ATG.