Ringsize issue

[bradlee180]

Yep, throughout the 1990s, Bernard Hopkins was an aggressive exciting fighter in several exciting fights right up to about 2001 when his style changed to the risk-averse way he's been ever since.

Unfortunately, the PPVs and wider audience only came when Bernard was well past his best at about 36 years old. These younger fighters who'd avoided him for years finally decided it was time to fight him because they all thought he'd be too old now and ripe to be taken. They were wrong.
That style he adopted in the 2000s was because he couldn't get the job done anymore the way he did it in the 1990s in his physical prime. Because of the PPVs, he's remembered for all the snoozefests during the 2000s instead of for the exciting fights he had during the 1990s as dominant middleweight champ.

It's hard to imagine someone stopping Glen Johnson, but stop him he did.
The way a prime Felix Trinidad fought reminds me of the way Hopkins fought in the mid-1990s.
The only time Hopkins fought that way in the 2000s was when at 43 years old, he beat the crap out of Pavlik in 2008.

Pretty sure P4P is not a chick, just someone you disagree with. In any case, always check the Adams apple I guess.

p4p's conduct is decidedly that of an over-sensitive feminine man..

[Master]

Remember Johnson saying the first hard punch Hopkins landed on him made him think that he was at the world class level and how different it was to the fighters he had previously fought. Johnson knew he was in with a world class fighter.

[Spicoli]

Yep, throughout the 1990s, Bernard Hopkins was an aggressive exciting fighter in several exciting fights right up to about 2001 when his style changed to the risk-averse way he's been ever since.

Unfortunately, the PPVs and wider audience only came when Bernard was well past his best at about 36 years old. These younger fighters who'd avoided him for years finally decided it was time to fight him because they all thought he'd be too old now and ripe to be taken. They were wrong.
That style he adopted in the 2000s was because he couldn't get the job done anymore the way he did it in the 1990s in his physical prime. Because of the PPVs, he's remembered for all the snoozefests during the 2000s instead of for the exciting fights he had during the 1990s as dominant middleweight champ.

It's hard to imagine someone stopping Glen Johnson, but stop him he did.
The way a prime Felix Trinidad fought reminds me of the way Hopkins fought in the mid-1990s.
The only time Hopkins fought that way in the 2000s was when at 43 years old, he beat the crap out of Pavlik in 2008.

Pretty sure P4P is not a chick, just someone you disagree with. In any case, always check the Adams apple I guess.

p4p's conduct is decidedly that of an over-sensitive feminine man..

The Tito fight put him on a plateau he deserved to be on many years sooner. How he was actually considered an underdog there blows me away but as ya mention, lack of exposure and massive push didn't help, not to mention a chip on his shoulder the size of a Buick. He really didn't give two shits what anyone thought. The patient thinker was always there even at peak but the aggression stood out. The Holmes fight was a stinker, even way back to the likes of Aquino. Taylor 1 still pisses me off..he assumed victory and i think let a tko escape in the late rounds. Hopkins just liked to beat people up, really that simple. But say the Lipsey, Mercado 2, Jackson blow ups...those were all menace & malice. I could appreciate him literally rearranging Joppys physical features over 12 as much as those. He changed up out of preservation and what a lot of guys only wish they had..the skill and mental make up to do so. He's not all slingshot sniper though and I liked the way he throttled Pavlik. He had that in the Pascal fights too, punching through an established comfort zone at times. Guys a fuckin legend.