hopkins trinidad, everyone though he was gonna scorch him after what he did to joppy, just never seemed to get out of first gear throughout the fight
Winky over Trinidad,he totally dominated the guy,he was the underdog in that fight and he even bet on himself to win.GO WINK
Hopkins-Trinidad. Forrest-Mosley I was more impressive and much more surprising to me than Wright-Mosley I. The most impressive win this decade to me was Pacquiao-Barrera I. Pac moved up in weight and completely dominated a great fighter, who was pretty close to the top of his game.
Hopkins over Tarver. Unbelievable discipline to reshape his body and take on a natural LHW, after a decade at MW, and totally outclass him.
Actually think Hopkins win over Tarver was more impressive than Trinidad. Jumped up two weight classes and beat "The Man" at 175. Plus, was coming off of two consecutive losses (although questionable) to Taylor and was 41 years old.
Hopkins-Trinidad. For one, Tito would have ruled that class for a while if not for Hopkins. The way he ran over Joppy was amazing, Joppy survived a massacre against Hopkins in '02 and went the distance, he was done but took everything Taylor could dish out, and recently while completelly shot went 10 rounds with Bute at SMW, but was just obliterated inside 5 rounds by Tito. Second, Tito was still in his prime against Hopkins, which rules out Winky-Trinidad rating higher IMO. 3rd, the only time Trinidad has been stopped. and 4th, It's simply one of the best performances I've ever seen taking in everything B-Hop did in that fight. Hopkins looked near perfect, as complete a showing as I've ever seen, Duran-DeJesus III level performance IMO.
Wow, i'm pretty surprised at the votes. Winky not getting a lot of love. In his first fight with Mosley, he was so confident that at one point, he simply dropped his arms and let Mosley tee off on him with combinations. That was a shocking schooling of a supposed "elite" fighter.
You DO know that Bernard put a $100,000 bet on himself and put Goldenpalace.com on the map.... Bernard dominated Tito AND beat him up...... Outboxed and outpunched him and beat a MUCH better version of Tito. Winky dominated a corpse..........
Winky was a HUGE Junior Middle, while Shane was a AVERAGE sized Junior Middle, didn't surprise me at all that he won.....
Winky was a HUGE Junior Middle, while Shane was a AVERAGE sized Junior Middle, didn't surprise me at all that he won..... And that was the 2nd fight that Winky pulled that stunt.
Hopkins-Trinidad, with Hopkins-Tarver second, Wright-Mosley 3rd, Wright-Trinidad 4th. Trinidad was 40-0(34) and a 3-weight world champion with an excellent resume. At 5'11", 70+ inch reach, and weighing in at heavier than Hopkins, he had the size to be considered a fully-fledged middleweight. In his last 2 fights before Hopkins, he had blown away undefeated Fernando Vargas (big for a lightmiddle) to unify the lightmiddle titles, then blown away world middleweight champion and career middleweight William Joppy. He was pound-for-pound number 2 in the world, he was on fire and a favourite to win. Hopkins was utterly majestic on the night. Sensational victory.