Quote Originally Posted by petem
Quote Originally Posted by althetruthhindley
Quote Originally Posted by petem
if he fights and beats the winner of HOPKINS-WRIGHT he goes down as one of the greats

no question whatsoever

i heard thats the plan as well
IF HE BEATS A 41 YEAR OLD HE IS GREAT LOL
DONT MAKE ME LAUGH
JOE himself is 35-36 !!

they are at the same stage of their careers, HOPKINS coming off one his best ever performance against TARVER and CALZAGHE coming off one his best ever performance against LACY

remember CALZAGHE destroyed EUBANK 10 whole years ago, HOPKINS was unknown until the TITO fight in 01

plus if HOPKINS can beat WINKY then he's far from washed up, he's already proven age is just a number with him
Hopkins wont go near him . Its the fight they should be having now instead of WW - BH which will be a polite affair but actually prove nothing to anyone at this stage of their careers .

Hopkins - Calzaghe would be a much better fight more exciting and Calzaghe would force Hopkins to answer questions of himself that Winky Wright could never hope to ask .
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Between the above two quotes, I've never heard so much bullshite in my life. At least Petem's last sentence is correct.

First off, if B-Hop wanted Tarver at 175, do you really think he's afraid of Joe at 168? Hell no. B-Hop fights ATG's. Calzaghe has never fought one ATG. Sorry, Eubank was good, but no ATG. As far as Hopkins getting famous off Trinidad in '01, that's BS. He was known years before that, and as far as Joe C, no one knew who he was until the Lacy fight in '06, Most people still don't. I could ask most of my friends who aren't really into boxing who Bernard Hopkins is, and they would know that he's a boxer. If I asked them who Joe Calzaghe is, they'll ask me if he's Chef Boyardee's assitant. And as far as boxing fan's opinions of Joe pre-Lacy, they didn't think that he and Lacy were lapping the field. They thought Lacy was lapping the field, and that Joe C was a protected Euro-champ who should hold a Commonwealth belt, not even a piece of Alpha-crap. I still hold that opinion. I swear, I haven't seen someone get so much play off beating an ill-prepared fighter since Buster Douglas. All that happened is that Lacy had a Tyson-sized meltdown, and it made Joe C look like Superman.