Quote Originally Posted by Kel View Post
Depends, Pac looked great at 147 but never looked like a much smaller guy at all, only in height obviously. He looked ripped too. If Hatton beats him it's a very good win IMO.

Hopkins has beaten a lot of big names but some of them were much smaller and it was clearly visible in the ring. Trinindad and De La Hoya both looked fleshy and were clearly lacking in size and strength. Even Winky Wright looked undersized somewhat. Three VERY good fighters, all out of their depth though in reality because along with size Hopkins is/was a skilled technician with very good power. So not too much credit for these wins for me.

Even Calzaghe and Pavlic moved up to fight him
Although I thought both looked bigger than him. Let's not forget that until 3 years ago he was still a MW, whilst JC was a SMW, which would logically make JC the bigger fighter naturally, & Pavlik looked bigger in the ring for definite IMO. I don't think either Tito or ODLH looked small at the weight, I thought Oscar looked fine at least against Hopkins up until he got knocked out, whilst Trinidad was tearing guys apart before fighting Hopkins.