B. Hopkins: When will Pacquiao fight a Black fighter?

[X]

Hopkins is an idiot. A pretty overrated fighter (a scuffling spoiler), an unpleasant character who has taken more from boxing than he has given ...... who cares what he says?

[arcanum26]

Hopkins is an idiot. A pretty overrated fighter (a scuffling spoiler), an unpleasant character who has taken more from boxing than he has given ...... who cares what he says?

Wouldn't count him as overrated fighter. Sorry for the analogy for people who here who hates MMA, but he's like the equivalent of Randy Couture sans the Captain America theme. An idiot, yeah he damn sure is. But after watching the clip before his fight with Pavlik where a terminally ill kid (with cancer?) was saying Bhop was giving him hope and despite me wanting Pavlik to win the fight against Hopkins, I wouldn't really mind this latest antics of his. Doesn't mean I'd be cool with him being given free reign shooting crap after this one though.

[Mar]

.... the color of the person pac beats up has nothing to do with anything. I hate when race is brought into this sport. There are so many fighters from different places with different styles and stories that race being brought up is usually just a last ditch effort of someone who can't just use intellegence to argue thier position anymore.

[Addicted to_boxing]

.... the color of the person pac beats up has nothing to do with anything. I hate when race is brought into this sport. There are so many fighters from different places with different styles and stories that race being brought up is usually just a last ditch effort of someone who can't just use intellegence to argue thier position anymore.

Race does have something to do with it look at the string of opponents all are straight foward, slow afoot , and either close to the end of their careers or beyond. Ant to add the last few have been catch weight fights. So that means Mosley is the perfect opponent to smoke screen the lack of opponents that are younger, hungrier, quicker and yes black / latiin opponents.

[JT Rock]

Its all good, cant deny Pac is one of the alltime greats. Its hard to grade sometimes because of different eras and dynamics of the sport in those given times. Similiar to baseball in arguments.

Nothing wrong with giving Pac his props and glory.. I think his bigger opponents have been low hanging fruit of the division, but he has beaten them soundly and impressively.. He is humble and a real ambassador for the sport.. I changed my opinion on him after being away from here for so long and realized that my dislike for him was 1000000000% fueled by overzealous and sometimes misguided fans