Quote Originally Posted by Spicoli View Post
Good stuff. Hopkins takes a lot of flack, some warranted over the years and some just piling on. He don't care. I've had pains watching him but its a pleasure to watch a craftsman. I think of guys much younger than him still carrying on only in name and clinging to shadows and can't find fault at all with a guy actually still on the top and winning impressively.

The whole Tito/Oscar thing is pretty obvious. Tito proved himself a guy who demolished a middleweight champion. He tore up Reid and Vargas and why linger at 154 in what was at the time a ghost town. Oscar got a gift against a middleweight champ and looked terrible. I didn't like that match. Oscar/Hopkins was a bit of an in house business-promotion affair to me. Tito/Hopkins was a legit superfight, one where Hopkins wasn't given much of a shot. I never could understand that.
Why thank you kind sir. People have short memories.Its not just what he did and how he did it but the age he did it all the way along in an era where most are done by 30. Shit he had his first big name fight at close to that. I never witnessed Moores career but I did Bernards and its just as significant with respect to legacy. Never cheered for the dude but that's here nor there.

I agree on what should be obvious.