Hopkins criticises Mayweather (video)

[WilkinsOlajuwon]

jas thank you for this video

bhop isnt the most articulate but what he is saying makes a lot of sense

[jas]

Is Bernard Hopkins bipolar or just salty? I remember after the Mayweather-Canelo fight he called Floyd one of the top 3 best fighters of all time! Now he's criticizing Mayweather for basically saying the same thing about himself...

I think Bernard is upset that Floyd doesn't want to fight him at 160. Bernard is looking for that huge payday that he will never get fighting guys like Shumenov. Yeah Floyd acts like a character to sell fights and that's why he's so rich. If Floyd behaved the way Bernard suggest he should behave Floyd would basically be in the same spot that Andre Ward and Timothy Bradley are in. Sure people respect the talent those guys have but Nobody gives a damn about them.

I respect your views but :

- Hopkins is gonna fight unification fights from now on until he retires. Show time just signed Stevenson. Hopkins is not going to fight mayweather .

- Hopkins is saying this after mayweather picked maidana who is not his toughest available competition. I did a thread listing 8 tougher opponents.

[JDD1]

isn't this video is like 4 or 5 years old. how is it relevant now?

[jas]

isn't this video is like 4 or 5 years old. how is it relevant now?

Try one day old from Bhops media workout. By the way, video was first uploaded to YouTube today

For future reference , if you wish to see how old the video is, click on it , should work

[Ragnar Lothbrok]

Hopkins: "Well Floyd had personal stuff to say about Rick Ross, too. He knows me, and he would never say anything to my face. Floyd ain’t no gangster like he thinks he is. I’m not a part of the Hip-hop world when it comes to a rapper. I’m a part of Hip-Hop when it comes to the streets. You can pull up my record. But I don’t back the ignorant days of my past and having to spend years in a 5 by 5 cell. I know how these dudes would really be if they weren’t surrounded by gold watches, diamonds, and all that. It means nothing to me, and I don’t have to play the buffoon like the system wants.

"If he wants to waste money in clubs, blow $40 million dollars and not pay his taxes, that’s on him. We have to think and be different. Warren Buffet and Bill Gates, you haven’t seen those guy’s houses. You haven’t seen Bill Gates with a million dollars sitting in stacks like some drug dealer. I don’t have a self-esteem problem, Floyd does. I’m 45; he’s like a young boy to me. I was schooled by old heads. So when I became an old head to the 20’s and early 30’s guys, when I speak they listen. Same why the rappers do with Jay-Z, I have that in the boxing world.

"It ain’t about how much money you got, but how much you can count 20, 30 years from now. Mike Tyson had $300 million dollars, and he got tricked out of it. Let’s see who’s ballin’ 15-20 years from now, when you need the money and can’t jump in the ring and make that money back. Because if the rumors are true, Floyd needs money now [laughs]. It’s not how much you got, but how much you keep. I would never flash my money.

"You’ll never catch me on MTV Cribs. Oh I’m sitting on 17,000 square feet, I got 6 acres. But I ain’t got to call the newspapers and tell them come to my house, and next thing you know someone runs up in there damn near trying to take the Kool Aid out my refrigerator…even though I don’t drink Kool Aid, heh. That’s the difference between me and Floyd and where the arrogance comes from.

"When Floyd saw me at the Fontainebleau in Miami , because I got a condo down there, the first thing he said to me “yo man you got to see my house!” Now I’m looking at this dude at like 2 in the morning, this young boy, saying first of all what do I care? Tell me about you r family, your daughter, your pops, but he wants to tell me I got to see his house like I’m a b***h! I ain’t one of your *****es, man. What are you talking about?! And lo and behold, I watch the 24/7 from the last fight, you seen it and I seen it, him sitting up there with Puffy showing it off. I’m not into that.

"Nobody has seen Jay-Z house, have they? Think about it. Look at the ignorance. Take this as a lesson dog, this is straight knowledge. I’m sitting pretty good. You never see anyone up in my house in Delaware unless they got helicopters. I take them to the condos in Philly and Miami, and they desperately been trying to get to the main house for the last 10 years. They know it’s nice, HBO is like “people got to see it Bernard, see your business savvy, etc.” I say nah, [because] then they won’t want to give me any more checks! I know human nature. Noooo, the less they see the better I’m off.

"That’s a street thing, if I was drug dealer why would I go out and buy a brand new car and draw attention on my block? No, I want them to think I’m doing bad. You take the streets and take into corporate America, and that’s why you have rappers that don’t have to sell coke no more. Corporate America is the new drug game. If you still out there trying to hustle on the block you’re a fool."

Its as if a ptard wrote it.

bhop 100% on point about floyd.

its very easy to read floyd and what he's about. he wears his emotion on his sleeve. floyd would suck as a poker player. I doubt he even knows how to. Guy didnt even finish high school.

I guarantee you, floyd will be broke 5 years into his retirement.

[JDD1]

Try one day old from Bhops media workout. By the way, video was first uploaded to YouTube today

For future reference , if you wish to see how old the video is, click on it , should work

I read the transcript. yeah shouldn't of done that. Watched it.

Bhop makes some good points. He said some dfferent things after the Canelo fight. He is entitled to his opinion.

[John Locke]

I love BHop. What a hero.

[Big_L]

i would enjoy this more if Hopkins didn't say after the Canelo fight that Floyd was Top 3 all time.

[jas]

i would enjoy this more if Hopkins didn't say after the Canelo fight that Floyd was Top 3 all time.

Floyd picked maidana as his next fight. That's what changed....there were 8 tougher fights out there

[MurkaMan]

Hopkins says Mayweather is fooling people by saying he is the best ever. Bhop pays respect to Henry Armstrong. Also says mayweather acts ignorant.

#1 He sounds like he is bitter that Floyd wont fight him at 160. Floyd cant even make 154, he comes in at 150. I always felt that any fight at 154 is a bonus fight, and isnt Bhop historic for fighting smaller guys? LOL. Cherrypicking squared up fighter, fought Tarver after he lost all that weight from that movie? When he had a chance to fight skilled fighters like Dawson he ducked him for 3 years and when they did meet he faked an injury like Henry Armstrong would do.

Then loss to him? Became friends with Ward, so he could manipulate him into thinking that because their friends they shouldnt fight? Now he is with Showtime fighting bums, yelling "I want to unify...But the promoters and network is ruining it for me!"

You wanna talk about the best, name a fighter in history that had the skillset of Floyd. Who can fight his OLD, Green, cherrypicked opponents and change their entire styles to dominate them all without being grazed? Yea Floyd should have faced Pac, and he ducked him, but even without Pac, Floyd is by far the best fighter ALL of us have seen. Thats why people GREATLY exaggerate about his opponents being bums, to make excuses for why this guy is so sharp. Bhop is a great legend, but he sound jealous and he sound bitter because a smaller fighter dont want to fight him. Get over it. I will watch more of the video.