The official "I called Hopkins over Pavlik thread!"

My first decent prediction.

 

i thought kelly would win it too.

if anyone bet on hopkins winning this stylishly they deserve their winnings.

 

thats true, its shocking how the Americans basically abandoned Bhop before the fight, and now they are all saying what a legend he is.

 

http://www.eastsideboxing.com/forum/showthread.php?p=2509328#post2509328


MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE





*though i also said he would KO pav in the 4th, but a wins a win

 

I called it several times. I said Hopkins would make it look ridicously easy and he did.

 

its one thing to just pick a fight its a whole other to get paid for your predictions..,


100...200...300...400...,etc...,:yep

 

I did better than call it, i called said he would make Pavlik look like a novice
:rofl
http://www.eastsideboxing.com/forum/showthread.php?t=96218

 

This is what I said after the countdown:

"I'm thinking of this fight, watching the countdown, and am more convinced than ever that B-Hop will win this fight.

The Pavlik camp seem wary - Jack Leow says he expects the fight to be competitive and up in the air after six, and Kelly himself is saying how will Hopkins react against a natural 160 pounder rather than pointing out real tangible weaknesses. Surely the fight being at 170 ibs will negate Pavlik's metronomic power and render it not as effective?

So, with that said, we will be left with a pure boxing match and this is where Hopkins prevails IMO. Not by alot, as Pavlik is no mug himself at boxing, but enough to eek out a decision by virtue of forcing Pavlik to change plans numerous times along the way and exposing each one in his own unimitable way.

On that subject of plans, I'm still not convinced Pavlik can switch plans with enough seamless authority to pull this fight out. His change of strategy halfway through second Taylor fight worked but it still doesn't wholly convince that he'll be able to do likewise versus Hopkins.

So, if Hopkins can just keep up a similar level of conditioning as he did versus Calzaghe I think he'll take it. He faded against Calzaghe but there is no one in boxing that throws as many punches as him so he should be able to 'bluff' things better this time if Pavlik comes on strong late on and give a better impression of putting on a "boxing clinic" to the judges, with quotation marks or not, depending on your stance regarding B-Hops style.

Hopkins UD."

Okay, didn't expect to be that easy at time of this post but by friday I did.

 

The closer it came to the fight I was sayin that I dont see Kelly landing his hard right againt Hopkins, and he didn't.

 

same dude:good:good

 

Picked Hopkins UD but he did it in a more demolishing manner than I thought

 

I picked Hopkins to get the nod. I just thought Hopkins had more dimensions to him as a fighter and that would've enabled him to get the win.

 

:rofl "old *******"

 

I called it. Knew the skill difference is huge but because of Bernard's age and stamina issues didn't see such a wide margin. I knew that even at 43, B-Hop didn't lose enough to lose to such a basic fighter. I knew for sure Pavik's not on the Calzaghe level.