Was the performance of B-Hop against Tarver enough to win over Roy?

[smashcrusher]

I didn't answer because i can't intelligently specualte about why he moved up other than to win the title in different weight classes..other than that i don't know...besides bernard should be happy roy moved up because that's why he got to "dominate" MW division for so long...courtesy of roy jones leaving the division...but its cool though..benard did what every other
graduate of "THE PRIME ROY JONES SCHOOL OF ASSWHOOPING" was supposed to do and that's go be a champ...

just like: Eric lucas, james toney, julio gonzales, lou de valle, otis grant, clinton woods, montel griffin, eric harding, virgil hill, john ruiz, derek harmon, vinny paz, thomas tate, thulani malinga...including bernard that makes 15 fighters that won titles after roy beat them... as opposed to

Bernard: oscar de la hoya, glen johnson, william joppy that's three. two of his title defenses came against two men he'd already beaten soundedly...

Now you tell me during their reigns who fought better competiton roy of bernard?

DISCLAIMER: This is not my attempt to discredit the great career of BHOP, I'm simply making a point not to get overly excited about what bhop has done and what he's actually done. He was great. But by no means is he or was he anywhere near RJJ...the only thing bernard did better than roy was get out of the sport when he should..

If Roy's opponents should get credit for what they did after they lost to him, which is win titles, then I think Bernard's opponents should maybe also get credit, for knocking Roy the f@#k out Oh but that's right, none of Roy's losses count, because he was old, came down in weight, mentally unprepared from his first KO loss, and just about any other excuse Roy nutthuggers pull out of thin air

only one Bhop opponent ko'ed roy...glen johnson...roy beat tarver before hop did...and listing who they fought was only to show that many say roy took the easy fights, and praise bernard for this mw record...when many of the fighter he fought were padded set up men that didn't even fight after he beat them...and when comparing one's opponents selection i think fighting a fighter that wins a belt is bit tougher competition than a guy that does nothing for the rest of career but lose...those are the guys that roy fought as opposed to the guys that bhop fought....

and yeah roy's losses count on paper...but if bernard hopkins and joe calzaghe say they believe that tarver and glen johnson would have got beaten by roy four years ago, ...then i could care less what a bernard hopkins supporter says...i guess you count the losses ali suffered at the hands of holmes and berbick too huh?

Actually Ali had marginal performances a number of times before he lost to holmes and Berbick, so that proves there was evidence of him slowing down, whereas Roy came off a dominant win over Ruiz. But that's right, nothing after that counts, because he had to struggle to make weight. The mere fact that you put Roy's name in the same sentence with Ali in itself is laughable.