Hopkins vs Jones set for 3rd April (about 10 years too late)

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I'll say this: RJJ was the guy that Hopkins was never, ever going to beat. IMO it would just not happen. Jones just had the "know how", fight smarts and of course physical gifts that would just not allow Hopkins to get anything going. Prime RJJ is a bad matchup for prime Bhop. Well, prime RJJ is a bad match for just about any fighter 160-175 in history.

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I'll say this: RJJ was the guy that Hopkins was never, ever going to beat. IMO it would just not happen. Jones just had the "know how", fight smarts and of course physical gifts that would just not allow Hopkins to get anything going. Prime RJJ is a bad matchup for prime Bhop. Well, prime RJJ is a bad match for just about any fighter 160-175 in history.

Great post here and I agree 100%.

I really am praying for one more day in the sunshine for RJJ come April 3rd but I don't see it. But to look back they have fought before and both were closer to their primes than they are today (Jones a lot closer) and Jones all but schooled Hopkins with one hand.

Now if Hopkins thinks that getting revenge over this shell of a once great man will add to his legacy then he is more deluded than I thought.

I see this being a landslide victory for B-Hop though, last time Jones was KO'd he took a few fights to start letting his hands go again and it'lll probably happen again now. Why oh why didn't he retire after Ruiz? IMO he would be universally recognized as p4p top 3 all time now if he had retired then on top having just won a HW strap!