hopkins to fight maskaev for heavyweight title

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I declare shenannigans on this! B-Hop should stay retired!!!

I agree. Beating Maskaev would mean what? Maskaev is a worse champion that John Ruiz, who Roy Jones beat.

It would mean Hopkins would be a three weight world champion, would be the only the second man ever to hold the middleweight, light heavywieght and heavyweight titles, it would elevate his legacy above that of Hagler, Leonard, Roy Jones and maybe even Ray Robinson and he would retire a legend.

I think he would also be the second oldest heavyweight champ of all time behind Foreman, not sure how old Woolcott was.

Oh and he would proabably make about $20,000,000 dollars.

If I was Hopkins, I take this fight

Exactly where would this $20,000,000 come from

What do you mean if B Hop came back and challenged for a heavyweight title it would HUGE!!!!!!!!

If Mayweather who isn't a big PPV star can get $8 million to fight Baldomir, B-Hop would easily make double that and probably a lot more to fight for the heavyweight championship of the world.

Furthermore, considering the state of the American heavyweight scene he would be hyped as the American saviour, there would be such an unbelievable hoo-ha over this fight that I don't think you are capable of understanding.

Trust me it would be HUGE. He'd probably enter the ring to a 12 gun salute, they would all sing the good ole Land of the Free and the Brave, he'd might wear his executioner's mask again, hell they'd probably even have him carrying an axe with one of his entorage holding a fake Maskaev head on a spike, it would be F****** tremendous.

If this fight ever happens it will be MASSIVE!

Sorry man, but that's completely warped. Roy Jones at the height of his career made $10 mil against Ruiz, in a ppv that didn't come close to an average DLH fight. Maskaev might be even less famous than Ruiz. There is no money in this fight.

Yeah thats way off

Hopkins just isn't that big...He "only" got around $8 million against De La Hoya...and wasn't even part of the highest selling De La Hoya PPV - Trinidad.

Hopkins-Tarver PPV had around 350,000 buys...same as Mayweather-Judah

Plus WBC champ or not, no ones shelling out too much with Maskaev involved... Maskaev-Rahman had about 10 PPV buys and lost a shit load of dough