BucktoothHops actually had as much experience as RJJ when they fought, he also had loads of amateur fights RJJ still beats bucktooth because of styles
The judges had RJJ beating BHOPS 116-112, they had Barrera beating Naz 115-112 - thanks for proving my point BTW Naz is far better P4P than BucktoothHops - he beat better featherweights than Buck beat middles
NO NO NO, Naz cleaned out a featherweight division far better than the shitty middleweight. BoringHops didn't need to clean out the middleweights - everyone good left to fight at SuperMiddleweight or LightHeavy. Naz was more dominant and devastating against his superior comp compared to BoringHops sleepathons against journeymen, super feathers and welterweights.
Roy said 60/40 and I'lle beat your ass! how is that ducking? ducking is justifying why you deserve 50/50 to a man who beat you and has more belts at more weight divisions and more impressive KO's. hopkins needs to get real!
jones beat hopkins when they were young but you would call it an "assbeating"? jones clearly won but it wasnt as domianant as an assbeating. someone already posted the score 116-112. you have to understand jones barely lost any rds back then. hopkins sure as hell did better then toney did.
Was in no way an ass whipping. Not even close....however, Jones was winning nearly every round before he hurt his hand noticably in the 6th or 7th round. He stopped throwing it, as noted by the commentators. Hopkins would beat Jones easily now.
true, he did have a broken hand. but it still wasnt no ass beating. if they fight now, hopkins would be the favorite but hopkins is not a pressure fighter so it wont be as easy as some think.
I dunno.....Jones backing into the ropes so often would lead me to believe that Jones gets beaten easily. But you put them in the ring together in late 2001, and I think Jones beats him just like he did in 93'.
prime 4 prime, jones beats hopkins more times then not . same as toney. its hard to play the counter punching game when you're fighting a counter puncher simply faster then you. as for what you said about jones, he lies on the ropes too much but hopkins has to keep him there. in the middle of the ring, jones is still quicker. hop probably wins but you probably wont seee a beatdown like you saw like say with johnson-jones.
I think the Roy Jones of today would still beat Hopkins. Jones would still be to fast for old man Hopkins.
Ya'll seem to forget that Bernard is a very very good pressure fighter when he wants to. In fact, Hopkins has fought more fights as a pressure fighter than as the slick counterpuncher he has displayed in recent years.