Most impressive run: Hopkins, RJJ or Wlad?

Quality of opposition is Hopkins, but he handpicked at the right times. I would say Jones Jr. was the best of them all.

 

De Valle wouldn`t have dropped Hopkins during his run and would have been more outboxed, but at the start of Hopkins run he wasn`t very good and Roy was far better at the start of his own run, I preffered the way Wlad fought during his prime to Roy, I think the Harding fight was very unimpressive. I also think Wlad`s KO percentage during his run may have been higher than Roy`s and he beat Chris Byrd who was better than anyone Roy beat from `97-2004 and many felt he lost to Tarver in their first fight, where he was really unimpressive, Hopkins prover Tarver wasn`t that talented also.

 

No but Roy`s unblemish run with the girls was a lot longer and more impressive than mines! My run wit the girls lasted from 1993-93 when I was 17!

 

Probably Wlad. Hopkins looked poor in some fights (Mercado, Echols), and the opposition was very poor (no fault of his own).

Jones Jr was at his best pre-Griffin. Hill was over the hill, Reggie was very over the hill, and Ruiz was pretty poor.

Wlad had poor opposition, too, but he never struggled so desperately like Hopkins with Mercado/Echols and Jones Jr with Tarver, I guess.

 

The answer seems to me very, very obvious: Jones for dominance at his peak and Hopkins for longevity. Wlad doesn't deserve serious consideration for either.

 

Jones' run was the most impressive. Bernard had great longevity, and some excellent wins after losing twice to Taylor. But, prior to that, Bernard mostly faced C level competition, or good fighters who were much smaller than him. Wlad comes in third. Great longevity, but, abysmal competition. In Wlad's entire career he only fought 2 or 3 people who had any legitimate chance of beating him. And, he lost to all of them.

 

B-Hop..
I don't think he gets enough credit for either his dominance at 160 or his success at 175

He dominated 160 for so long, and I think his style and size would make him a nightmare for any 160 lb champ of the day including Monzon or Hagler ...

And I still think his most dangerous opponents were at 175, where he also dominated right up until the Kovelev fight when he was already pushing 50

Hopkins may not have had the most crowd friendly style, but I enjoyed watching him, and I can't think of any other fighter of the modern era who beat so many top fighters when they were at their best

Also, Hopkins seemed to ruin big name fighters so that they never were the same again...Kelly pavlic is the best example, but same could be said about Tarver, Tito, Taylor and to a lesser degree ODH.

Also mix in the fact that he never really suffered a convincing defeat (aside from Jones in 94) until the age of 50

I'm sorry but this question is a no trainer to me:
Hopkins all the way!

 

I really meant Sanders and Brewster. Both knocked him out. And the limited Sam Peter dropped Wlad and had him shaky on multiple occasions. I don't consider any of Wlad's other challengers to have been quality opposition worthy of a title shot. Byrd was too old, and I was never sold on Haye at heavyweight.

 

Wow, pretty tough calls. My initial thoughts were that we would be splitting hairs and that there reall was not a definitive correct answer.

I wrote down:
Hopkins
RJJ
Wlad

Then gave a cursory glance (not an in-depth analysis.

Hopkins 24-0-1 (1 NC) (best wins Tito, Glen Johnson, Joppy, Holmes, DLH and very thin)

Wlad 22-0-0 (best wins Rahman, Peter x’s 2, Haye, Byrd, povetkin)

RJJ 15-0-0 (best wins Tarver, Griffen, hill, Reggie Johnson, ?Harding?)

All very good and for longevity impressive. But I still don’t feel a difinitive correct answer exists?

I like Wlad & Hopkins at 1-2 and RJJ at 3. But if the Ruiz and jump to HW carries more weight for someone I could see RJJ...

I don’t think I would argue anyone’s placement. However I might question reasoning for those placements? Mark’s does not even have a shread of rational thought...which is not surprising.