Which fight to you consider to be Hopkins greatest masterpiece?

Went with the victory over Pavlik. I was so sure that Kelly was going to destroy Hopkins that I didn't even bother to watch the fight live.

 

Funny how Pavlik is winning yet Calzaghes win over Hopkins is discredited as he was OLD.

For me Johnson was a great schooling but this Hopkins beats that Hopkins.

 

Pavlik>Trinidad>Tarver

Where is the logic behind voting for De La Hoya? :huh

Someone explain that to me please, preferebly one of the people who voted that option.

 

Considering that he was the underdog (not to me) in the Pavlik and Trinidad fight and then pulling of a masterful perfornmance against them both, i'd say those were his greatest. But his performance against Johnson is often overlooked, Hopkins was flawless in that fight aswell.

 

There is no justification for this pick.

 

Some strongly believe that because Johnson hadn't reached his peak yet, the win isn't so great. Sweet Pea has been vocal about this, for instance.

 

The first Taylor fight. I may commission an artist to draw a picture of Bernard's face when Buffer said "And NEW" He looked like he was constipated.

 

and like many picking pavlik, you probably never even seen the trinidad-hopkins fight.

1) hopkins was just as big of an underdog against trinidad

2) trinidad was amore proven fighter & there was still question in kelly. titos buzz in the sport was at a all time high. he already had vargas, de la hoya, joppy, & sweet pea under his belt going into the fight against b-hop.

3) b-hops "masterpiece" began before the fight even started with the all pre hype & getting under titos/pr's skin.-classic b-hop...

4) hops was a 3-1 underdog and bet 100k on himself to win (and did)

5) and he finished tito in the 12th in front of a hostile pro tito crowd as hops chanted usa, usa, usa.

trinidad was b-hop greatest win, best performance, masterpiece or whatever the fu*k you wanna call it :deal

 

Il go with Trinidad...The Pavlik fight was good but Pavlik was ill like **** in this fight...

 

the highlight of bernards career was hugging calzaghe for 12 rounds and feigning low blows.

 

First-off arver had to drop a lot of weight rapidly just like roy did when he fought tarver, (Tarver had to pack on a lot of muscle for the Rocky movie), Antonio Tarver wasn't anything special, his claim to fame was a lucky left cross that caught Roy Jones. Hopkins did kick his ass, but it wasn't anything to write home about. And I apologize about the cruiserweight statement I meant to say light heavy weight.

 

When i think "masterpiece", i think of the Tito fight first. He did everything that fight. Plus, he KOed Tito.

 

ding ding ding ding

this is why i think trinidad was his best performance as well. an utter demolition job.