He'll probably have an emotional breakdown if Hopkins wins this saturday.:rofl Hopkins reminds me of Micheal Jordan, every yr. Jordan stopped everyone's favorite team in the playoffs and championship game. For 2 yrs. the Knicks would of won the NBA championship had Jordan not been around.
This is definitely a guy that won't be able to say **** coming April 29 if that scenario unrolls. Primaddona Kool will be here and we won't mess around cause the guy was wishing hard and was tryin to make some sense but this guy Divac, My Lord...
I'm not a fan, but I dont hate Hopkins. I'm on record stating I'll be here to grant him his props if he should legitamately beat Dawson. Will you be if Hopkins should quit or get embarrassed is my question mark?
Of course, I follow Chad's career and Cloud's career as well and I'm very interested in the SMWs meeting the LHWTs. If you say you will be here then you know what we r gonna call you if you don't come... Anyway, good that you stated that but I doubt you are neutral concerning Hopkins based on your perspectives. Emabarrassed? Let me tell you what... Hopkins has an history of turning against judges in Vegas such as now unofficial Showtime judge and scorer Chuck Giampa who cost him at least two decisions, one against Taylor and another against Calzaghe. Dawson also went against the Canadian ref when he was headbutted but they were not embarrassed. Now, the people who have called a 9th round TKO for Dawson or Hopkins quitting should be the ones embarrased. I mean you are already sayin that if he wins legitimately you will give him props. Bye bye, fly fly.
Dawson is just a bad style match up for Hopkins add Dawson's size and youth and it spells disaster for Hopkins at this point. I hate to say it but Hopkins is going to get beat up on Saturday.
I loved how Cal brought so many welsh guys to see him hit the deck in the first time he had Hop on the ropes.And then Joe killing flies like my cats do and being busted up on the fast counter :yep Kelly brough all those guys from Youngstown to AC to do better than Calzaghe did and they were shouting 9th round, 9th round, 9th round! The guy is old, Kelly was too strong at 160 against taylor and Taylor was too strong against Hop at 160. Hop is old and can't fight 12-3 minutes rounds. :rofl And let's not forget the end of that 4th round after our dear friend RJJ had rabbit punched Hop, even one of his sons got in the ring :nut This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected
The judges have always given Hopkins a fair shake. He lost both those Taylor fights having a next to zero workrate in so many of those rounds. Calzaghe outhustled Hopkins, he beat him on sheer workrate. Hopkins clean connects were too few and far between to merit giving him rounds over Calzaghe who was connecting and busy throughout. There are alot of fans who are of the opinion that Winky beat Hopkins, I'm not one of them. I thought Hopkins clearly and comfortably beat Winky by landing the crisper harder shots on a much more consistent basis than he landed vs Calzaghe. In contrast Winky was just in a turtle shell and his shots were only pushed foward with next to zero snap behind them. If I were a Hopkins hater you would think I'd have had Winky beating him.
That's your opinion. Not everyone thought they beat Hopkins. Calzaghe outhustled Hopkins in the later rounds but Hopkins should of gotten credit for his clean punching and all the misses Calzaghe had for the first half of that fight and he didn't. He also knocked Joe down and that was more than enough for him to get a decision.(plus he was the champion) The samething happened with Jermaine Taylor. Taylor was nothing but HBO creation and you can see that no, because look at his career, and what he's done and Hopkins career. So quit telling people that Hopkins loss those fights without a question because it's BS, and it only shows your biasness. Now the Roy Jones fight, the whole world said Hopkins loss, and Hopkins also said he loss that fight. If you can't tell the difference than you need to open your eyes.
hopkins by ko in the 8th after getting dominated all fight, he'll throw a sneaky right and dawsons chin will implode.
i agree that both taylor fights(hbo house fighter) and the calzaghe fight couldve gone against bernard. right now, my book has b-hop at +320 and dawson at -410. yet the draw, which is normally at around+1600 to +1800 is at +1200 and the over under is at -280 1:30 of 12th round. what this tells you is that vegas is expecting a 12-round fight and a close fight indicative of the short odds on the draw. -410 is absolutely horrible and only the idiot esb bloggers, the vast majority that know nothing about boxing, are spewing a dawson ko/tko or total domination. these are the idiots that built las vegas.
I can almost guarentee you if Hopkins beats Chad Dawson and Dawson gets a gift decision(it's only a if though, like he did when him and Taylor fought pascal, and Calzaghe) and people at ringside have him winning the fight as most fans probably will, divac, primadonna kool, and all the haters he has, are gonna consistently act like he got dominated. The only thing they wanna see is him lose, they don't care how it happens. It can be the biggest robbery, and they'll still have something to talk about. You can't satisfy everyone, even though Hopkins has been challenging every young, elite, great fighter that the public claims to be for the last 7 frickin yrs. , it's never enough. And he's almost 50yrs. old, and it still isn't enough.
Hopkins is about to beat the two top rated young LHWs for the WBC LHWT belt and not just beat Hopkins and Jones Jr and retire as a Ring mag linear LHWT Champ. That's why some guys on the other side of the pond don't want Hopkins to do it!
This content is protected Chad wants Nard on the ropes to work on him just like JT pushed him there rather than drive there with a clean right that had everybody on their feet including DiBella and in my opinion that was the moment judges started scoring 4 the challenger. But if the ref of Khan Petersn was there, JT would have been deducted a point... This content is protected
JT, had a better jab than Dawson though and he's more of a patient fighter than Dawson. So I'll give JT a little more credit because even though I thought Hopkins deserved the decision, he fought a very competitive fight and you compare both of his 2 rounds with Hopkins in both fights compared to Dawson's 2 rounds, Hopkins had more trouble with JT's style.