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

[Pigeons]

Well...Cotto and Canelo were MW champs, holders of belts Golovkin covets.

And Mayweather has also called out Golovkin. So....

Trinidad and De La Hoya also had belts. There's also the fact that Trinidad and De La Hoya would trash Cotto and Canelo at 160.

[Mitchell Kane]

Trinidad and De La Hoya also had belts. There's also the fact that Trinidad and De La Hoya would trash Cotto and Canelo at 160.

Trinidad had 1 piece of a fractionalized belt.

DLH had a discounted belt (Hopkins was the champion) that the didn't even deserve.

[Buckfever]

******ity is infinite....it has no limits!!....Abel always saying something ******

It's absolutely unbelievable.

[therealpugilist]

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

Im so tired of them saying that mess, real fans know the truth

[soul_survivor]

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.

I agree that GGG is better physically and more dominant as middleweight champion. I'm a big Hopkins fan and I would not contradict that.

But Hopkins fought plenty of fully fledged middles who would go up to smw and lhw in their careers. Yes, his two most iconic wins are Oscar and Tito, both impressive in their own way. There's an argument that Oscar wasn't anything worth talking about north of 154 but Tito looked like a force at 160 before Hopkins dismantled him. You can't take that win away from him and it's better than most guys entire careers.

GGG can catch up to the likes of Hopkins in terms of prestige in the division but he has to have wins over Canelo and then unify all the belts. If that means he concedes money and weight, so be it as long as it's within reasonable limits. Hopkins had to do the same.

[FrankieClutch]

GGG's team just doesn't know how to shut up

[Francis M.]

Abel is making GGG look bad with these rants he goes on.

[Xi_]

People also tend to forget that Hopkins played the game and gave into the demands that Oscar wanted.....money, catch-weight etc.

[Public_Enemy]

Cotto was the middleweight champion.

Canelo is the middleweight champion.

Trinidad was a 154-pounder when moved up for the middleweight tournament.

DLH was a 154-pounder when he moved up for the Sturm/Hopkins two-step.

Trinidad had at least established himself as a middleweight champion against Joppy before the Hopkins fight.

DLH never did....he was a middleweight champion in name-only in the Hopkins fight...very few people thought he actually beat Sturm.

Yea. I think that's why there was a catchweight involved for the DLH fight. He wasn't a true 160 lb fighter. The catchweight didn't help Him anyway though.

It seems to me that many of the top MWs throughout history have fought fighters moving up in weight and those have been some of their biggest fights. GGG would be in the same boat if Cotto would have fought him.

Hagler- Duran, Leonard, Hearns
Monzon- Napoles
Hopkins- Tito, DLH

I still think Abel talks too much. Hopkins is still a great at the end of the day.

[TripleGFightFan]

Abel Sanchez - "We'll fight Floyd at 154lbs."...