Tavoris Cloud vs. Bernard Hopkins - Saturday night chat/fight thread

[Beanflicker]

Hopkins has to be acknowledged as a top 5 p4p of all time.

[Dia bando]

You lot NO I have NO love for Hopkins, but well done but I still think he's a twat.

[Tam Seddon]

I watched the fight last night, B hop did what he needed to do and I'm happy that he won. Who's next for B hop now? How would he shape up against Cleverly?

[AdamGB]

He'd school him.

[Spicoli]

I watched the fight last night, B hop did what he needed to do and I'm happy that he won. Who's next for B hop now? How would he shape up against Cleverly?

Hes on another stratosphere. Clev needs to do something spectacular, and in the States really.

On the rewatch. 48 yrs old....damn. Can we officially rename this the Hopkins ?

[IamInuit]

He's entitled to an optional defense in 90 days I think but he could take a mandatory instead or go for a top dog. Its a perfect win to retire on but I think he's now looking at that 28 year mark set by Archie Moore.

You gotta love the added bonus of kicking King square in the junk.

[mrbig1]

Hopkins won not because he's the better fighter. It's because Cloud is a punk ass bitch. Has this guy seen video of Hopkins before? They way you beat him is by keeping your fist in his face all night. Like Jones and Calzaghe did. Getting beat by a 48 year old man is embarrassing.

[IamInuit]

Hopkins won not because he's the better fighter. It's because Cloud is a punk ass bitch. Has this guy seen video of Hopkins before? They way you beat him is by keeping your fist in his face all night. Like Jones and Calzaghe did. Getting beat by a 48 year old man is embarrassing.

Hopkins beat him because he is technically a much better fighter. "Styles make fights" is a phrase perhaps over used at times but not in this case. It was the same kind of blue print Hopkins used to beat both Tito and Pavlik. It was a tutorial.

[Beanflicker]

Hopkins won not because he's the better fighter. It's because Cloud is a punk ass bitch. Has this guy seen video of Hopkins before? They way you beat him is by keeping your fist in his face all night. Like Jones and Calzaghe did. Getting beat by a 48 year old man is embarrassing.

Yeah it's just that easy... just keep your fist in his face...

[Dia bando]

Hopkins won not because he's the better fighter. It's because Cloud is a punk ass bitch. Has this guy seen video of Hopkins before? They way you beat him is by keeping your fist in his face all night. Like Jones and Calzaghe did. Getting beat by a 48 year old man is embarrassing.

What you on about Calzaghe beat the twat.

[Spicoli]

Hopkins won not because he's the better fighter. It's because Cloud is a punk ass bitch. Has this guy seen video of Hopkins before? They way you beat him is by keeping your fist in his face all night. Like Jones and Calzaghe did. Getting beat by a 48 year old man is embarrassing.

No, I'm pretty sure thats what it was. Matter o fact...yeh, that was it.

[TigerFan]

Post fight press conference

[JonesJrMayweather]

At 48 years old that was impressive. However for Cloud, styles or not, he should have been able to beat Hopkins with activity and movement to tire the old lion. Cloud's camp failed him.

[Beanflicker]

Ouch, Paulie served him up nice.

[IamInuit]

At 48 years old that was impressive. However for Cloud, styles or not, he should have been able to beat Hopkins with activity and movement to tire the old lion. Cloud's camp failed him.

No offense but that does not make any sense. You cant simply discount the very thing that won the fight and then make the case for what Cloud could have done but didn't because of that style.