Bernard Hopkins vs Gennady Golovkin

[DrDuke]

In their primes at the middleweights.

Of course, Golovkin isn't retired yet and is still more, than just credible, but anyway he isn't going to become better in that age.

So, B-Hop vs GGG, both in the versions of their MW reigns. How do you see this fight going?

[jamamb]

hopkins easy and im sure pretty much everyone in this section will tell you that

the movement would give ggg hell, golvokin would hardly be able to land a powershot, and hopkins would just potshot him and land through that porous defense

[DrDuke]

Golovkin is a solid offence-oriented fighter with technically good and variable combinations, but he would have lacked creativity to connect the majority of his shots. Hopkins' tricky and semi-fouling style would have probably been too much for Golovkin.

[tiny_acres]

This would of been Hopkins toughest fight at Middleweight he had.
You still have to favor Hopkins because of his ring IQ. But it would not be easy and far from a guaranteed win

[Yuzo]

This would of been Hopkins toughest fight at Middleweight he had.

danny jacobs seemed to do ok.

[Perseus]

It wouldn't be easy, GGG would win some rounds but in the end Hopkins wins a clear decision.
For all his success GGG's best defense is his chin................he's just not hard to hit.
Hopkins movement, better defense, ring IQ and the GGG lack of defense leads to a win for Hopkins.

[Tuan_Jim]

This thread is instructive. Two years ago many posters here had Golovkin annihilating Hagler and the whole pantheon--he's too devastating! And he's invulnerable! And he punches too hard! And he's too aggressive! And he has X KOs in X defences and that's all that matters! And, and, and... and then he fought Danny Jacobs and Canelo. And now it's difficult to imagine him doing anything other than following Bernard Hopkins around while eating punches. How things change!

Remember when Krusher was so highly regarded? Who would you confidently pick him over in the LHW all-time top 50 today?

The thousand-and-second reminder that arguing that active fighters midway through their careers would definitely trounce established greats is really, really dumb.

[IKSRTFO]

This would of been Hopkins toughest fight at Middleweight he had.

danny jacobs seemed to do ok.

They fight in two different styles. Jacobs is an athletic big guy who Hopkins would probably have trouble with also. That said, Hopkins never had trouble with fighters with the style of GGG until he got old.

[Yuzo]

They fight in two different styles. Jacobs is an athletic big guy who Hopkins would probably have trouble with also. That said, Hopkins never had trouble with fighters with the style of GGG until he got old.

when jacobs was moving golovkin never cut the ring off. hopkins moves more and is harder to hit. jacobs seemed to bully golovkin. when hopkins was not moving, keeping your feet from ever being set, he was on top of you, holding and hitting.

And, and, and... and then he fought Danny Jacobs and Canelo. And now it's difficult to imagine him doing anything other than following Bernard Hopkins around while eating punches.

eating right hands.



hopkins liked to steal you with a right hand and then bump into you and grab you.



then when he got you, he seized one of your arms, so both of you only had one free arm to punch. then he tucked his head behind your head, using your own head to shield his head from your free arm. holding you with one arm and hitting you with his free arm, because your head is exposed to his free arm, but his head is protected from yours.



when you get a guy into this position you get to do what you want.



hopkins liked to be way out or way in. never in between. hopkins beats you, not because he is trying to win, but because he is trying to make sure you have no way to win.

[BroughtonRulesRefuge]

- Yuzos all knows how I loves me my loving look at the championship qualities of Mr. “Ain’t Never Gonna Be Beat By A White Boy” Popkins, a career of sentimental waltzes and whoopsies sandwiched with oopsie-poopsies.

He of wasted days and wasted nights interrupted by hard time. Out and about as badder than Bad Leroy Brown, so badder takes up boxing and gets whooped a new one. Many greats take early losses, but soon finds he can skinnyize down to middle as he racks up knockovers over the usual grade D journeymen, but then Glory be Manna from Heaven vs growing legend of Roy Jones handed to him on a platter with one wing injured. Woe be to he as Roy whoops him one handed, so back of the line again for Popkins against D level journeys, but then rascally DKing comes a’courtin’ with a gimmee title bout in Uruguay against nobody.

Bingo, easy money, but oops, whooped a new one by Mercado after being knocked down twice.  King salvages the day with a controversial draw, his M/O for selling the rematch now in Popkins land. Decent start til Mercado extracts payback, so clinch him hard enough to cause the ref to TKO Mercado for being clinched. Only in boxing, and worse, the ref admits he blew the call when confronted with the vid, but no matter monkey shines, Popkins now King’s in house boy for life!

Defends his IBF scrap against noname journeys, but JDJackson in his last gasps a good scalp, and then an unproven Glen Johnson and so on improves his studliness, but whoopsie, little Banty Mill’s Lane hurls him through the ropes against Robert Allen to land 12’ out of the ring and the bawlin’ and squalin’ commences, enough for an NC ruling. Sweet deal if you can git it.



A few minor contenders later, the post 911 Tito scrap that earns him the respect he lacked, so Lou Dibella signs him to a big money deal. The first two fights are against Joe Calzaghe in England and the Roy Jones rematch, and ol’ Pops balks, walking out of his contract to lose a $2mil civil suit by Dibella. How can he ever pay it fighting the journeys with so much of his peanuts purses being seized? Especially after losing the Joppy bet when he couldn’t knock him out, a financial disaster!

Ahhhh, sweet serendipity when Oscar signs him and gives him a legit payday. Alas, soon Jermain Taylor comes a’callin’ and whoops him out of middle into LH where he catches a bloated, 250 lb Hollywoodized Tarver. After butting Winky into submission, white boy Calzaghe comes a’callin’ and bursts him into kicked cur squeals as he scrambles the canvas on all fours with his protector pulled up. Later he tries the same tactic as Joe dry humps him.





Makes a comeback against 1st stage Alky Pavlik infected with a life threatening staph infection when putting his hand through a window after winning the title from Taylor. He’s on a roll again, right, until he hooks up the Jones rematch where he is soon bawlin’ like a titty suck baby. Sure am happy he weren’t my daddy!



Then KDed twice by Pascal and clowned to squeak out a Mercardo draw again before winning the rematch that I refused to watch after his stinker in the first. Then after being schooled by Dawson, he launches a flying knee into privates, failing when Dawson bend to intercept him, shucking his bodyweight off that flies Pops across the ring squalin’ about his shoulder. Ref rules TKO, but Cali Oscar gets Cali commish to overrule to NC.



So, bawling and squalin’ has been paying dividends…>>>monkey biz gets whooped by Kov, and then picks white boy journeyman NY union construction worker with the everyday name of Joe Smith to get his mojo back, and mission accomplished! Knocked out of the ring onto the floor and immediately starts with the squalin’, his last act in the ring…The End…C’est la vie…Sissified for life!



Face it boyz, your boy ain't never gonna face Golovkin, cuz if he duz, he's gonna be sissy all over again.

[Perseus]

lol.
Nice

I sometimes enjoy trolling just to see who falls for it but you are way too obvious.
You're not gonna get anybody with this one, you need less words and more condescension.