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

[El Kabong]

Cloud has to win this fight 1 way, EFFECTIVE PRESSURE. Cloud has to hound Hopkins all night, hit with bad intentions wherever you can land, try to pary or slip as much from Hopkins as possible but never let him breathe, never let him clinch or tie up....keep the hands working and the head moving. Hopkins legs will leave him and you can corner the old man and once that happens throw the kitchen sink at him!

[Mars_ax]

Cloud has to win this fight 1 way, EFFECTIVE PRESSURE. Cloud has to hound Hopkins all night, hit with bad intentions wherever you can land, try to pary or slip as much from Hopkins as possible but never let him breathe, never let him clinch or tie up....keep the hands working and the head moving. Hopkins legs will leave him and you can corner the old man and once that happens throw the kitchen sink at him!

That's what i'm taking about, knock the old fart senseless, and put him in a retirement home. War Tavoris!

[El Kabong]

I don't know if Cloud will KO Hopkins just because Hopkins is a legend and he's just an extremely cagey fighter who has never ever been easy to fight...but I would like to see Hopkins get hammered into the canvas and Cloud has the strength to do that, does he have the ability? We will have to wait and see.

WAR CLOUD!!!

[Kirkland Laing]

Purses for Saturday night.

Hopkins $750k
Cloud $550k
Thurman $150k
Zaveck $25k plus his domestic TV rights.

[Spicoli]

Cloud has to win this fight 1 way, EFFECTIVE PRESSURE. Cloud has to hound Hopkins all night, hit with bad intentions wherever you can land, try to pary or slip as much from Hopkins as possible but never let him breathe, never let him clinch or tie up....keep the hands working and the head moving. Hopkins legs will leave him and you can corner the old man and once that happens throw the kitchen sink at him!

Sounds like a pefect plan. I just have to wonder with his heavy forward foot if Hopkins will feint him out of one boot or two before he counters

on a side note it just occured to me we'll have to sit and watch Don King parade around in that crusty blue denim jacket and his rats nest of a hairdo. Wonderful

[Mars_ax]

Cloud has to win this fight 1 way, EFFECTIVE PRESSURE. Cloud has to hound Hopkins all night, hit with bad intentions wherever you can land, try to pary or slip as much from Hopkins as possible but never let him breathe, never let him clinch or tie up....keep the hands working and the head moving. Hopkins legs will leave him and you can corner the old man and once that happens throw the kitchen sink at him!

Sounds like a pefect plan. I just have to wonder with his heavy forward foot if Hopkins will feint him out of one boot or two before he counters

on a side note it just occured to me we'll have to sit and watch Don King parade around in that crusty blue denim jacket and his rats nest of a hairdo. Wonderful

It'll be interesting to watch Hops' expressions when his old promoter DK starts parading around the ring, i'm sure there's no love lost between these 2 ex-cons.

[El Kabong]

Hopkins 174.4 - Cloud 173.8

Last 2 fights Hopkins weighed 173 & 1/2

Last 3 fights Cloud has weighed 175...looks like Abel Sanchez at the very least has made Tavoris work hard in training camp

[Tam Seddon]

Cleverly Tabs Hopkins To Make History, Defeat Cloud - Boxing News

[mrbig1]

I was always a big Hopkins fan. Now I'm tired of seeing his old ass. I hope Cloud can retire him for good.

[Tam Seddon]

King's Long Run Might Come To an End at Barclays - Boxing News

[Tam Seddon]

Hopkins-Cloud: Does the Young Man Get His Way this Time? - Boxing News

[Mars_ax]

Heads up homies, this card starts @ 9:30 PM ET tonight in the States & Canada, and @2:30 AM Sunday in the UK.

March 9
At New York (HBO): Tavoris Cloud vs. Bernard Hopkins, 12 rounds, for Cloud's IBF light heavyweight title; Keith Thurman vs. Jan Zaveck, 12 rounds, WBO welterweight eliminator; Frank Galarza vs. TBA, 6 rounds, junior middleweights; Mike Perez vs. Lonnie Smith, 10 rounds, lightweights.

All kidding aside, I hope "Thunder" Cloud doesn't seriously injure the old man and just gives him a good ass-whopping.

[Onetime]

Purses for Saturday night.

Hopkins $750k
Cloud $550k
Thurman $150k
Zaveck $25k plus his domestic TV rights.

Where do you get the numbers? Cloud don't seem like he is worth that much.

[Violent Demise]

Purses for Saturday night.

Hopkins $750k
Cloud $550k
Thurman $150k
Zaveck $25k plus his domestic TV rights.

Interesting. I thought Hopkins would get at least a million

[Mars_ax]

The HBO card is starting just now, Lamps, Kellerman and Ward (filling in for RJJ) calling the action, 1st up Keith Thurman vs. Jan Zaveck, 12 rounds, a WBO welterweight title eliminator.

Hopefully the main event will be a good one, War Thunder Cloud! (rain on the old fart's parade)