Quote Originally Posted by wacko3205
Quote Originally Posted by JT Rock
I'm talking about Glen Johnson Vs Bernard Hopkins..... Hopkins Tko'd Johnson a few years back but Glen deserves another shot and I think his rough and tumble pressure hard nosed style would wear Hopkins down. Bernard his reduced to leading with the right, or his head, holding and hitting rinse and repeat over again.

Glen still pressures as good as anyone in the biz and throws a good volume of punches
You know I love you & all that S***...but that's like sayin' Lacy would whoop Calzaghe in a rematch.

Glen can be as ruff as he wants...but nobody's ruffer or more skilled inside than Hopkins. Glen comes in too much now & refuses to utilize the one weapon that could nullify Hopkins's tactics: A JAB.

Then again...Winky never got his off against Hopkins...so there aint much of a thought that Johnson would either.

Johnson's a work horse & he's got heart...but just because he plowed through an old Jones, a lazy Tarver, stopped an overdone Griffin, & went toe to toe with Woods (& let's just forget Moore) doesn't mean that he'll ever get through the cagey wit of Hopkins.

Honestly...I just don't know who can.
Sorry Wack, but I'm afraid I'm going to have to disagree with you here. Despite beating a wannabe filmstar who left his fighting brain at home on a bed of dollars and a guy stepping up 10% of his bodyweight at light-heavyweight, I reckon that a natural light heavy who is fairly tight at the weight and seriously motivated would be able to keep Hopkins at bay with a super-firm jab and accurate shots.

Dawson and Drews are the ones the jump to my mind as potential Hopkins-killers, but as they aint very big names so he won't fight them. No one at light heavy is these days, so we're looking at the winner of Calzaghe v Kessler or a huge name like De La Hoya as the only possible opponents left for hopkins.