Top 5 Hopkins?

[fugaziuk]

Ok i ain't posted on here in a while but i just got the b-hop career set and wondered wat people would say are his top 5 fights?

[Trainer Monkey]

Echols,Trinidad,Tarver,Wright,Pavlik

[kingfrnk]

IMO its like this

1. Tito
2. Pavlik
3. Tarver
4. Winky
5. Glen

i would put Oscar but i think Oscar was expected to lose that fight.

[Kel]

Ok i ain't posted on here in a while but i just got the b-hop career set and wondered wat people would say are his top 5 fights?

I'm no Hopkins fan but I'd say the Pavlic fight, RJJ fight, Joppy fight, Tarver fight, maybe the Trinidad fight too because although I thought he had a size dis-advantage he was knocking people out as someone reminded me in another thread I found it entertaining.

[Kel]

I thought the Winky fight was boring, seems like most of you are posting his BEST WINS rather than most entertaining fights.

[natas206]

Trinidad
Pavlik
Glen Johnson
Tarver
Wright or Echols/Allen/joppy/de la hoya

[Trainer Monkey]

I thought the Winky fight was boring, seems like most of you are posting his BEST WINS rather than most entertaining fights.

Come on,he won a round and a half against Echols with one hand,his jab hand no less

[natas206]

maybe the Trinidad fight too because although I thought he had a size dis-advantage he was knocking people out as someone reminded me in another thread. I found these entertaining.

The Trinidad was his best win imo. The size difference didn't matter (only something that comes up NOW). Trinidad owned a belt at 160. He was a 6-1 favorite to beat hopkins, he was undefeated and on top of that, hopkins did not use his size advantage, in fact he never really does. That was a brilliant display of skill, not someone who simply over powers their opponent and uses their size. Hopkins did it all and he BOXED brilliantly.

[Kel]

I thought the Winky fight was boring, seems like most of you are posting his BEST WINS rather than most entertaining fights.

Come on,he won a round and a half against Echols with one hand,his jab hand no less

Cheers fella I wanted someone to mention that so I could post this.

LOW BLOW FAKING BASTARD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjDpbr-VLSs

[Pugilistic]

Hopkins - Pavlik
Hopkins - Trinidad
Hopkins - Johnson
Hopkins - Elchols 1/2
Hopkins - Joppy

[jon09]

IMO its like this

1. Tito
2. Pavlik
3. Tarver
4. Winky
5. Glen

i would put Oscar but i think Oscar was expected to lose that fight.

Agreed on the top 5 and the Oscar comment. Did anyone else think the way Oscar lost was a little suspicious?

[Spicoli]

Five just does not do him justice,off the top.A rarity that you can just watch fpr the shifts and calculating.Actually found myself watching some that I hoped would go longer for that as opposed to taking the guy out.Hopkins just flat out liked to beat people up.

Trinidad
Johnson
Pavlik
Joppy
Echols 2

A gem of his early work was his destruction of much hyped undefeated Joe 'The hammer' Lipsey...Crap quality recording here but a Brutal stand up KO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScRv9...eature=related

[killersheep]

Five just does not do him justice,off the top.A rarity that you can just watch fpr the shifts and calculating.Actually found myself watching some that I hoped would go longer for that as opposed to taking the guy out.Hopkins just flat out liked to beat people up.

Trinidad
Johnson
Pavlik
Joppy
Echols 2

A gem of his early work was his destruction of much hyped undefeated Joe 'The hammer' Lipsey...Crap quality recording here but a Brutal stand up KO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScRv9...eature=related

Damn that's a brutal KO.

[Trainer Monkey]

Testament to Hopkins as a fighter that everybody has a different 5
Why my 5
Trinidad is obvious,nobody thought Hopkins had a shot at the time,screw revisionist history,nobody thought B-hop had a holy hope in hell
Wright-Nobody expected a barn burner,but also what nobody expected,was that Hopkins would out technique one of the greatest technicians of all time
Echols-one of the greatest shows of heart Ive ever seen,fighting a round and a half with a separated shoulder,and winning both rounds
Tarver-Coming off two "losses" he moves up in weight and absolutely schools the champion,brilliant performance
Pavlik-Noone,including myself thought he had that thought he had that great of a performance left in his tank,well he proved all of us wrong

[JonesJrMayweather]

Testament to Hopkins as a fighter that everybody has a different 5
Why my 5
Trinidad is obvious,nobody thought Hopkins had a shot at the time,screw revisionist history,nobody thought B-hop had a holy hope in hell
Wright-Nobody expected a barn burner,but also what nobody expected,was that Hopkins would out technique one of the greatest technicians of all time
Echols-one of the greatest shows of heart Ive ever seen,fighting a round and a half with a separated shoulder,and winning both rounds
Tarver-Coming off two "losses" he moves up in weight and absolutely schools the champion,brilliant performance
Pavlik-Noone,including myself thought he had that thought he had that great of a performance left in his tank,well he proved all of us wrong

As much as I loved it..i think fight would have been much much closer had tarver not try to pull a roy ,shedding all that muscle too soon..he was as fatigued as roy during their first fight