Kessler is better than anyone Hopkins has beat at the weight

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  1. Fighting Weight

    Fighting Weight Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    You have to be taking the ****, right?
     
  2. Lance_Uppercut

    Lance_Uppercut ESKIMO Full Member

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    Cut that **** out. Do you intentionally call Tito a WW and Hopkins a BIG MW to try to help ytour argument? :patsch

    Tito and Goldy BOTHfought @ 154. And Hopkins, that GIANT MW, often fought right below 160.
     
  3. cuchulain

    cuchulain Loyal Member Full Member

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    Whereabouts in Derry ?
     
  4. brooklyn1550

    brooklyn1550 Roberto Duran Full Member

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    Kessler, at 168, is better than Trinidad, De La Hoya, Johnson, and Joppy at 160. So yes, Kessler is better than anybody Hopkins beat at middleweight.
     
  5. Amsterdam

    Amsterdam Boris Christoff Full Member

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    The difference is major. Hopkins and Eubank could fill out LHW well enough, Goldy and Tito were maxed at 154 for being effective against actual TOP fighters.

    Quite a difference, you just want to be a mean person.
     
  6. Amsterdam

    Amsterdam Boris Christoff Full Member

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    What about the Magic Man and Winky at LHW?

    I think a new level of realisation is on the horizon before the great year of 2012, exciting.
     
  7. Lance_Uppercut

    Lance_Uppercut ESKIMO Full Member

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    So what? DLH and Tito could both fill out cruiserweight if they needed to.

    And last I looked, Tito did KO a legit MW in Joppy. Same guy taylor and Hopkins could not KO. Now go and slag off Joppy...calling him nothing.

    Ther truth remains, Hopkins was NOT this giant MW you try to paint him as. But I reckon you do so more to discredit wins over Tito and DLH.
     
  8. greengloves

    greengloves Well-Known Member Full Member

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    yes i most certainly am serious,kessler is a very natural smw,and a world class one at that,this is a far stretch from the nostalgia or a fight at mw with odlh or trinidad.in time when we see what kessler achieves we'll be able to tell more but until then i will say that i believe that a win over kessler means more than any of hops wins.

    am from the city but am living in scotland at the minute.
     
  9. cuchulain

    cuchulain Loyal Member Full Member

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    You're right about Kessler.

    Rural South Derry, but also in exile.
     
  10. Jack

    Jack Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    According to Hopkins himself, he was a more natural 175lber. Take that as you may, of course.

    And Tito is a natural 154lber, whereas Oscar was definetly a 147lb during his prime.
     
  11. greengloves

    greengloves Well-Known Member Full Member

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    big time red neck lol where have youescaped to anyway,im stuck in a derry transplant that is the haven of dundee.

    i definatly think kessler will go on to become lineal at smw and show how good he is,maybe going up to 175 and claiming a title.
     
  12. drvooh

    drvooh Boxing Addict Full Member

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    :good
     
  13. Axe

    Axe Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Eubank was a natural Supermiddleweight, he even had real trouble making that weight. He never weighed in as a middle past the age of 24.
     
  14. cuchulain

    cuchulain Loyal Member Full Member

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    A couple of miles outside Swatragh (halfroads between Maghera and Garvagh, now in the Arctic.

    Creggan, The bog, Brandywell (Not waterside ?)

    Kessler would destroy Hops, Pavlik and Taylor.
     
  15. 41fever

    41fever Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Kessler is a big, strong and very good boxer...however he is 1 dimensional