Abel critical of Hopkins Record. Says "he fought smaller opposition "

[HeroBando]

why do people act like the wba regular title and the ibo are real belts? he has no record

Just like Hopkins record was watered down vs Monzon, this one would be vs Hopkins cause reg wba belt is not full blown. But it's no interim: Jacobs is called MW champ on pbc, Gamboa unified his reg belt vs Salido. But it's a technicality since super wba Sturm was def 2nd best to reg champ and he knew it.

[megas30]

Sanchez has respect for what Hopkins accomplished but said he was not as dominant at middleweight as Golovkin (34-0, 31 KOs) has been, noting that Hopkins’ biggest wins in the division came against smaller fighters who moved up in weight -- Felix Trinidad and Oscar De La Hoya.

“And Gennady is knocking everybody out,” Sanchez said. “We can all be critical of the opposition, but you can go back to Joe Louis, who had the ‘bum of the month club,’ or Larry Holmes or Mike Tyson. They didn’t have the best opposition either. But I don’t care who you’re fighting, if you win 15 middleweight title defenses, all by knockout, that’s a special place in history already. If he can get to 20 defenses, especially if he can get there all by knockout, that would be very special.

This says it all about ggg team. They have no respect for the sport. They are trying to bring down old legends to have ggg on equal footing instead of pushing the dude to be great.

[HeroBando]

This says it all about ggg team. They have no respect for the sport. They are trying to bring down old legends to have ggg on equal footing instead of pushing the dude to be great.

It's just a blowhard trainer bigging up his guys standing. He's got a point though, Hopkins unified long ago, had his money fight vs smaller guys, didn't move up till 40. Great reign, but Ggg can match that if one of these lineal champs sacks up for once

[aldo5408]

15 straight KO defenses as of today

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15 straight KO defenses as of today

15 straight bums thats gotta be some kinda record .

[HAY-B]

Sanchez has respect for what Hopkins accomplished but said he was not as dominant at middleweight as Golovkin (34-0, 31 KOs) has been, noting that Hopkins’ biggest wins in the division came against smaller fighters who moved up in weight -- Felix Trinidad and Oscar De La Hoya.

“And Gennady is knocking everybody out,” Sanchez said. “We can all be critical of the opposition, but you can go back to Joe Louis, who had the ‘bum of the month club,’ or Larry Holmes or Mike Tyson. They didn’t have the best opposition either. But I don’t care who you’re fighting, if you win 15 middleweight title defenses, all by knockout, that’s a special place in history already. If he can get to 20 defenses, especially if he can get there all by knockout, that would be very special.

Tito an ODLH were the biggest names aside from RJJ but not the biggest fighters. I understand Abel hyping his fighter but GGG's run @ MW is nothing close to Hopkins when comparing caliber of opposition.