Quote Originally Posted by TitoFan View Post
Momentum, I would call it. Trinidad was riding the undefeated train and had just wrecked Joppy. Hopkins wasn't yet the household name he became after he defeated Trinidad. Unless you were totally familiar with Hopkins, who at the time had been MW champion for over 6 years, it wasn't that bad a mistake to make.
Yea the Joppy performance blinded many fans (myself included) to flaws that Hopkins was always going to be able to exploit. I didn't think it would be easy either way, but never predicted the spectacular performance Hopkins put on.