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Originally Posted by ICE COLD BOXING
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Originally Posted by BIG H
Can I just ask what risks Bernard Hopkins or Roy Jones Jnr took during their primes?
I reckon I can name a lot more people that both of them should have fought and didn't that anybody can name that Calzaghe should've fought and didn't ;)
ill do list for you mate
bernard hopkins
howard eastman
felix trinidad 40-0 at that time
oscar dela hoya
all risky fights
hopkins may of not had as many risky fights but eastman trinidad and oscar are twice as good as calzaghe opponents shame calzaghe wernt born few years later he would of been in era of benn eubank collins
Oscar was a risky right for hopkins? gimmie a brake the only risk of that was he might get screwed if it went the 12 - S*** i don't think oscar should of even held the belt to go into that fight, Sturm was screwed so HBO could get the hopkins v oscar fight IMO and even if he wasnt screwed he got through it by the skin of his teath!
Eastman i guess thats debatable, i never really rated him or thought to highly of him, but some do so thats fair enough i guess...
As for the 2 Viet fights you questiond, the first one veit was something like 28 or 29 and 0 coming into it, he was fairy highly thought of around europe, germanys next big hope (atleast the media were saying that) - the second fight he had to fight him or vacate.. for one there was no one else around worth beating, and two he only had the wbo belt, so vacating it would of been dumb.