Why is Hopkins' nickname "The Executioner"??

[mspiegelo]

Hopkins dosen't execute ****....He fights like John Ruiz and holds,hugs and headbutts his way to ugly decisions...He's boring as hell.


The REAL Executioner is Kelly Pavlik....He is exciting and he destroys his opponents....That's what an Executioner is supposed to do.


On October 18...Hopkins will be executed by Kelly Pavlik

just because you prefer white fighters (as your gloating thread about "whites taking over boxing" clearly suggests), don't blab your boxing ignorance to the rest of us. obviously you have never seen hopkins old fights. he would break his opponents down with pinpoint accuracy until they crumbled. he ended careers like the undefeated joe lipsey. he took the young stallion glen johnson, who was an undefeated prospect at the time, to school. he was the only man to ever stop him and he did it in an embarassingly one-sided fashion. kelly is great. im a big fan. he is no B-hop. even this old, less active, defensive-minded b-hop will give him problems. try watching great boxers instead of only people with the same color skin as you and show some respect to a legend.

[slicksouthpaw16]

I think something has to be said that he has been the only guy who has stopped both Oscar and Tito in a fight.

Take a lot at this knockout. This is a prime Hopkins and many people are looking at the Bernard of today and making their judgements off of that. A young Hopkins was definitely an executioner.

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The thread creator must have not seen Bernard at middleweight...

[ИATAS]

I think something has to be said that he has been the only guy who has stopped both Oscar and Tito in a fight.

Tito has been down before and against Hopkins it wasn't a punch deal it was a 12 round beatdown that caused him to drop and his dad to throw in the towel. Plus, Tito looked fantastic at Middlweight prior to hopkins.

Against Oscar I don't really care about this because Oscar didn't look good at 160 his fight prior and two I always felt oscar was overrated anyways. Besides, any fighter would take a shot at oscar. doesn't matter what weight class, if they have a shot to take oscar they fight him. Why? because he's the golden boy and it will be your biggest payday. Hopkins made $10 million that fight, by faaaaaaar his largest payday of his career.

[fightnews55]

I think the thread starter is a Kelly ***lick nut hugger.

[mspiegelo]

just because you prefer white fighters (as your gloating thread about "whites taking over boxing" clearly suggests), don't blab your boxing ignorance to the rest of us. obviously you have never seen hopkins old fights. he would break his opponents down with pinpoint accuracy until they crumbled. he ended careers like the undefeated joe lipsey. he took the young stallion glen johnson, who was an undefeated prospect at the time, to school. he was the only man to ever stop him and he did it in an embarassingly one-sided fashion. kelly is great. im a big fan. he is no B-hop. even this old, less active, defensive-minded b-hop will give him problems. try watching great boxers instead of only people with the same color skin as you and show some respect to a legend.

yo executioner... where in southeast queens you at? im in ridgewood

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yo executioner... where in southeast queens you at? im in ridgewood

South Jamaica Queens. Rochdale Village to be exact. I be around in Rosedale, Saint Albans, Valley Stream-Long Island as well.

[Zocalo]

Tito has been down before and against Hopkins it wasn't a punch deal it was a 12 round beatdown that caused him to drop and his dad to throw in the towel. Plus, Tito looked fantastic at Middlweight prior to hopkins.

Against Oscar I don't really care about this because Oscar didn't look good at 160 his fight prior and two I always felt oscar was overrated anyways. Besides, any fighter would take a shot at oscar. doesn't matter what weight class, if they have a shot to take oscar they fight him. Why? because he's the golden boy and it will be your biggest payday. Hopkins made $10 million that fight, by faaaaaaar his largest payday of his career

I agree with you on both of your points. The thing is that Hopkins just clearly outclassed Tito to the point where they had to stop the fight. I don't think anyone really expected that.

Oscar yeah... he was the smaller man, looked bad at that weight but never really been hurt to the point where they was a legit chance of him being KO'ed. I didn't expect a KO from Hopkins even knowing the fact that he was significantly the bigger man.

No one else has/had put a KO loss on Oscar's or Tito's boxing resume and is something to acknowledge no matter what the circumstances.

[larryx]

Yes, I know that

I just don't think his nickname suits him, that's all.

A guy with the nickname "The Executioner" should destroy people.

I guess he calls himself "The Executioner" because he bores people to death.

well he has beat the **** outta alot of people but hey what do i know

[Gonzalez_Boxing]

Tito had a middleweight belt. Hopkins wanted that belt in order to unify the division and become the first person to unify the middleweight division since Hagler. That was a goal. Should he have not fought Trinidad and not accomplish his goals because some Internet clown would have criticized him for it years later? lol. Not too mention Trinidad was a 7 to 1 favorite going into the fight.

Who cares if Oscar and Tito are the biggest names on his resume? Just so happens those are the two biggest names of the sport

Further, beating Trinidad opened a lot of doors for Hopkins. He worked hard his entire career and was denied the shot at a big fight for many years. Then he beat Trinidad after putting on a great performance.

Actually it was a middleweight unification tournament that was put together by Don King, which was supposed to lead to an eventual Trinidad/Jones superfight. The tournament started out with Trinidad/Joppy(WBA) and Hopkins(IBF)/Holmes(WBC), then the next round featured Trinidad(WBA)/Hopkins(IBF,WBC). Needless to say Hopkins ruined Kings plans and won the tournament, unified the belts in the process, and became the first recipient of the Sugar Ray Robinson trophy, which was rumored to already have been engraved with Trinidad's name.