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Quote Originally Posted by bilbo
Quote Originally Posted by Hulk
I don't know. But I'll tell you where he should be, #1. Forget lil Floyd for the moment, it's Bernard's time. Floyd recently won a close fight against Zab Judah, but Bernard at 41, jumped up 15 pounds and dominated the best LH in the world. Hopkins is THE MAN!
Ahh come on it was a good performance and all but Tarver was just not at the races last night. I reckon any of Hopkins, Jones, Woods, Johnsonn or Calzaghe would have beaten him with ease on that performance, he just had nothing.

Bernard would still lose in another rematch to Jrmain Taylor, get beaten by Calzaghe and be given a much harder fight by Johnsonn or Woods.

He done well last night but he ain't p4p number 1, maybe top 5, just.
Please don't insult my intelligence. Hopkins won both Taylor fights, for sure. And forget about Calzaghe. That is a ridiculous statement. Tarver was a much better and acomplished fighter than Jeff Lacy. We can play your little game with the Lacy vs Calzaghe fight too can we not? Any top SMW would have beat Jeff on that night, he was off. The fact is that Bernard Hopkins at 41 years old absolutely dominated Antonio Tarver, the best Light Heavyweight in the world. And I think he should be P4P the best one last time. Many of us feel he didn't lose to Jermain Taylor and should have never lost his belts or #1 P4P status either.
Well I've never argued a case for Calzaghe to be p4p in the top 5 let alone number 1 so I don't see what he has to do with it.

The first Taylor fight, it's a mathematical impossibility for Hopkins to have won seeing as he lost the first 6 rounds without question.

His punchstats were 14 punches or less landed in each of the first 6 rounds, and as we all know unless there are knockdowns it is impossible for a fighter to win a fight if he has lost half of the rounds.

The second fight was more comfortable if anything for Jermain Taylor. 3 judges gave to him by 115-113 and that is after the previous seemingly controversial fight where the loser nearly always gets a more favourable score in the rematch, Castillo against Mayweather being just one example.

Hopkins lost, get over it.