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Quote Originally Posted by bilbo
Hopkin's age surely counts as ample compensation for Winky's weight disadvantage.
Now you're coming round to my way of thinking

The excuses are already set. Little man vs old man.

Quote Originally Posted by bilbo
B Hop is a living legend, if he was to go on a fight for a heavyweight belt he could well beat Foreman's record and become the oldest ever heavyweight champ as well as the only true full middleweight to win a heavyweight title, as both Jones Jr and Toney were really higher weight fighters.

He did what Ray Robinson could not and won the light heavyweight title. Robinson was also scheduled to fight Floyd Patterson before it fell through after Patterson was knocked out against Liston. Hopkins is as keen a boxing historian as anyone. He knows that if he wins a heavyweight crown it would put him in the top 10 greatest of all time. Anyone with an appreciation of boxing history can see the merit in such a fight. He's also trying to create a better legacy than his two arch rivals Roy Jones Jr and James Toney.
There's four belts today not one. Foreman won back the linear title... Did you class Roy Jones as the no.1 heavyweight champ of the world when he beat Johnnyboy? Remember Lennox Lewis? Ruiz was nothing but a pony alphabet holder. Yet again, nobody gives a funk about Hopkins boring a shit-alphabet-plodder to death.

And Hopkins would NEVER in a million, GAZILLION years be regarded as a top 10 fighter of all time

Most BORING "great" fighter maybe.