Quote Originally Posted by Hulk
Quote Originally Posted by Violent Demise
Hopkins has always said the Echols fights were his hardest fights. He actually dared Keith Holmes and William Joppy to fight him when they were champions.
Yes I know about the first comment, and that is a real compliment coming from B-hop too. But I never knew he challenged those two to fight Antwun. Hopkins laid a good ass whippin on both of them himself.
This was before Don King's Middleweight unification tournament. Hopkins said it wasn't his fault that there wasn't only one Middleweight champion. He never had a problem fighting the toughest guys. Which is why he fought Echols. He said if Holmes and Joppy were to scared to fight him, than they should fight Echlos. He felt Echols would of knocked either one out. This was said after the first Hopkins-Echols fight. In which Echols actually dropped Hopkins (wasn't called) in the first and stunned him in the 12th.