Why is Hopkins the ring champ at light-heavy and not Erdei?

Bernard fought for the Ring Mag LHWT Champ for the same reasons that have taken Jeff Ryan, Ivan Goldman, William Dettloff and others there to write off JT from the P4P Top 10 List recently and to question the verdict that had the MW Title won for JT even as B-Hop only won rounds from the 8th round on ( with no knockdowns) back in 2004...

 

cause the ring is an american mag

fact is Hopkins vs Erdei would establish a real, dominant, champ

 

do you realize that you contradict yourself in this post. on one hand you state that hopkins is the champion because he beat the man who beat the man. but you also say that a unifying champion being stripped is b.s., because the man who unified should still be considered the champion.

the man at lhw was virgil hill. d.m. got to him first therefore he was the champion. leading the lineage to erdei.

dm was stripped of the wba and ibf titles. so by your logic, how could roy be considered the man if he never beat the man. and before some of you get your panties in a bunch, it is not an issue of whetehr or not he was the best fighter in the division, rather should ring magazine have given roy the ring belt knowing that the lineal champion still held a title. and that at least one of the belts that roy held rightfully belonged to d.m.

 

So you mean Hopkins is standing up to currently biggest names at LHW ... Tarver and Wright?
Next year probaly he will fight the super winner of Jones-Trinidad ....
....or give rematch to biggest LHW treat: Oscar DLH.