It's Amazing so many people picked BHOP

I too am amazed at how many people thought B-Hop could win. Almost fifty years old (how many athletes do you see in any other sport at that age?) Has not scored a knock out in 10 years and up against a very heavy handed undefeated champion. This was a no brainer that Kovalev would win. I am very impressed that Hopkins went the distance. Incredible performance for the almost fifty year old warrior!

 

After picking against Bhop for the last 10 years and being wrong each time its not easy to pick against Bhop.

I was not one of them though. However I was surprised that he was able to go full 12.

 

What I took away from this match is that Kovalev has a question on his ability. He really didn't execute the way everyone predicted, especially against a Hopkins of that age and recent performance curve. By all rights it should have been a blowout early KO. I know Hopkins is among the best ever at not conceding angles but all the other factors were stacked very much for Kovalev.

 

Not as amazing as you picking Shumenov over Hopkins now that was an embarrassingly bad pick.

Or you thinking Hopkins would fake a low blow in round 3 to get out of the fight that was ******ed and we all know you should never go full ******.

 

hopkins won a split decision over shumenov.

 

Yes and they were all idiots who simply wanted to discredit Hopkins. Hopkins somehow gets dropped twice by Pascal but doesn't quit but loses 2 close rounds to Dawson so must have faked his injury from a blatant foul. That kind of logic belongs in an asylum.

The build up to this fight was like watching a political election. So much crap being thrown at BHop by petty minded posters like yourself.

 

I fancied Hopkins to win a tight decision cause I didn't know how intelligent kov would be in this fight

I was wrong, kov boxed great and didn't allow himself to be drawn into Hopkins kind of fight

Won very easily and props to him

 

Watch the actual fight, it was a schooling.

 

I rate Kovalev very highly and his boxing skill, but even I didn't expect him to outbox Hopkins this much, I thought it was either going to be Hopkins UD, possibly late TKO or a Kovalev early KO.

 

I thought Hopkins would win. I was wrong, congratulations Kovalev. He is the real deal..!

 

that is promotional hype, fans get deluded.. also now i read thread kovalev ko`s ward. probably that ts didnt watch kovalev fight neither...

 

I thought he would go the distance, maybe even have some moments