Quote Originally Posted by Taeth View Post
People are delusiona... IN the Cotto fight you saw a guy who had been hurt before, a guy who was easy enough to hit. Hopkins is an entirely different species of fighter. He can make a fighter dirty, he can reduce your punch output tenfold. He can gain your respect with that right cross you don't see coming. How many people thought Calzaghe would walk over HOpkins? How many thought Taylor would or Tarver or Winky to a degree? Hopkins continues to prove critics wrong.

This isn't about Pavlik not being good, he is a good fighter, its about Hopkins being a far superior boxer, and what makes this fight even is that he is 44. Bring in the Hopkins that fought Glen Johnson and Pavlik doesn't last 6 rounds.
Did somebody retarded take over your account? You used to say intelligent things. After the whole Cotto/Margo thing, you need to keep your mouth shut for a while. Are you saying that Glen Johnson, at that point in his career, was better than Pavlik is right now? Glen went 11 with Hopkins, and keep in mind, at that point, Glen Johnson had built a record fighting stiffs and he lost his next fight to Sosa, and also lost to Vanderpool, Sheika, and Branco (notice I'm not counting the Ottke fight as a loss) before putting it together late in his career.

Since when has Hopkins ever been a great knockout puncher? Never in his life has Hopkins KO'd a quality opponent before round 9, and that was against a WW. Hopkins has the ability to make any fighter look bad. He has the ability to make any fight close. Hopkins will make this Pavlik fight very close, but no version of Hopkins would ever KO Pavlik. 'Nard at his best might outpoint Pavlik, but he wouldn't KO him.