Agreed, a 26 year old Barrera at his absolute peak & a 26 year old very good Pacquiao on his record pisses all over anything Hopkins has done.
it doesn't matter what names stack up. anyone who's not blind can clearly see that Hopkins was a much superior fighter to Morales. I see more talent in a fighter like Julian Jackson than Morales. let's be real here if this forum wasn't so full of European bigots who have a chip on their shoulder about black fighters, Hopkins would be winning the poll by a landslide
bull****...in what way ? morales has never, i mean never pulled the ***** **** bhop has pulled fight after fight....morales has real balls, money made bhop grow a little pair, but couldn't keep him from showing his true ***** colors......
Bull**** assumption, 160 was his best fighting weight he made it easily just because his first fight was north of 175 it doesn't mean he should have stayed there, he never struggled to make 160 untill he reached his 40's with this kind of ******ed logic we may aswell say Tommy Hearns should never have fought at welter and instead should have started at MW. He didn't drop down to fight smaller men atschatsch he has admitted he wasn't giving 100% that's why he took a break after his first fight and came back 2 years later for one last shot at boxing IN SHAPE and like I said he never struggled to make 160lbs at the start of his career so I don't know why you're making such a big deal out of it. Morales had to move up he couldn't fight at 122lbs for too long because of his rather long frame the same with moving up again from 126lbs to 130lbs but it was always smartly done (his moving up) because he was successful in each weight he fought at but each time he went up a little bit of the spark left him 122lbs and 126lbs Morales was a superior fighter to 130lbs Morales but 130lbs Morales was still good enough to beat Pacquiao but it was at this point the miscalulation was made since he needed to move up to 135lbs strait away but instead for 3 strait fights he struggled badly to make the 130lbs (and the 133lbs catchweight against Raheem) this effectivly ruined him as an elite fighter IMO. What you see now is a shell of what he was, but it just shows you how good Morales was/is because even though he's badly faded and fighting way above his prime weight he's still good enought to push the elites at 140lbs all the way.
No, now you're the one being stupid. Let's be real, Morales is one of the most loved boxers on this forum and for some stupid reason you decided to put him a poll against Bernard Hopkins a fighter who a lot of people turned against after his last fight and now you're all upset calling people bigots because the poll results don't reflect your personal opinion.
look you chimp, you think I think this thread backfired this was an honest poll that I expected Morales to be winning by a landslide but it looks like about 50% of fans think Hopkins is greater. dumbass:rofl
dude, it wouldn't of mattered, ever !!! nobody has ever really liked hopkins, and he's to blame for that, not the fans....**** him
really there is nothing contentious about saying Julian Jackson is greater than Morales. I'd say Buster Drayton is a better win than 98% of Morales' wins and having McCallum stunned is better than anything Morales ever did. plus Jackson just looks like a better fighter outright.
Post Pascal he got a lot of dick riders, A LOT. They were everywhere on this forum with their 'Hopkins a G' bulll**** I knew these bandwagoners would drop off sooner or later and it turned out to be sooner. With me being an actual Hopkins fan who's still a Hopkins fan I could spot them easily and call them out on their bandwagon antics but I never said **** to anyone who was a Hopkins hater from before people like HEADBANGERS, Wig etc. are actually posters worth respecting for their consistency.
Ok I see what you're doing, **** i'm losing my touch I should have spotted this **** a few posts back. :verysad