Quote Originally Posted by The Rookie Fan
It was pretty much the combination of Tito's BIG wins over Reid, Vargas and Joppy and the fact that Hopkins had little oposition in his weight class and he had not looked very impressive in recent fights at that time.

I remember being very VERY nervous for Tito in this fight. I knew this was going to be his toughest challange. All my brothers and friends were telling me I was crazy. But I was more of a boxing fan than they and I had seen enough Hopkins fights to know that there was going to be trouble. I still thaught Tito would win though.

I also was looking forward to a possible fight with Roy Jones, I didn't hink Tito could beat him, but it would have been a Big night of boxing. And then shortly after that Roy gets himself knocked out twice....It kinda makes you think...What if Tito had won that fight against B-Hop. Maybe he was going to fight Roy at just the right time....hmmm. Then again, he probably would have gotten KTFOut.
Roy didnt lose until he went to heavyweight and come back down. Trinidad wouldn't have beat him till he came down. And Roy had about 5 other defenses so if Tito had beaten Hopkins would would have beat him.