byroan said:This is fun talking boxing with you guys. Is the next big fight we're waiting for the July 16th fight they were talking about?
LightsOut said:do any of yall collect fights on tape? cause i put all my fights on dvd and have like 200 tapes i'm trying to get rid of. real cheap. if anybody is interested, pm me and i can send you a list of what i got.
Martel said:Yeah that should be good. Hopkins/Taylor for Bernards middleweight (160) undisputed title. Jermain Taylor is a young bad *** from Arkansas and is probably Americas best up and comer. X has 20 straight title defenses and hasn't lost in....oh about 11 years. Alot of people think Taylor has a good shot, he's a big guy and X has been at 160 for a while and waited for smaller guys to come up. But X is a legend, even people that predict Taylor wins, will be shocked if he does. There's a shot I may go. I'll keep you posted.
Hostile7 said:I really wish RJJ and Hopkins could have worked out the money issues a few years ago and fought... That would have been something to watch.
Section126 said:Do you got Nigel Benn vs. Gerald McClellan?
Martel said:You know that they did fight though right? That was Bernards last loss. It would have been nice to see them again, though.
Muck said:Yeah, but he wasn't "Bernard Hopkins" then.
I saw that fight. Roy broke his hand in the second(?) round and still won. But again, Hopkins wasn't yet the guy who's dominated the division for the last decade.
Still, it would have been nice to see. BH would have been the first guy to knock Roy out. All Roy had to do was agree to a 50/50 purse. BH was gonna come up in weight.
LightsOut said:that was before roy moved up to heavyweight and then came back down. that ended his career. hopkins wouldn't have come up and beat roy. much less knock him out. bernard turned down 6 million.
other than losing his debut, hopkins didn't lose to anybody before or after roy. so when exactly did he become "bernard hopkins"? he was always really good. and jones was better. both guys were young back then and improved a lot over the years. but roy moved up and fought bigger guys. hopkins stayed at middleweight and his biggest fights are against smaller guys like tito and de la hoya.
All Hop had to do was agree to a 60/40 split. Roy was #1 pfp at the time and had been for a while...he deserved more money.Muck said:Yeah, but he wasn't "Bernard Hopkins" then.
I saw that fight. Roy broke his hand in the second(?) round and still won. But again, Hopkins wasn't yet the guy who's dominated the division for the last decade.
Still, it would have been nice to see. BH would have been the first guy to knock Roy out. All Roy had to do was agree to a 50/50 purse. BH was gonna come up in weight.
Section126 said:Do you got Nigel Benn vs. Gerald McClellan?