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[dhoward126]

Hey guys, I love nothing more but to communicate with all of our readers on FightHype whether it through e-mails or the radio show so I'm making another ask one get one thread for you guys. I don't care how ridiculous your questions are! Keep me entertained.

[bnoles4life]

Danny,

Why do fight fans have selective memories? Meaning, people scolding Sergio for callling out May and Pac (btw, I agree he should "fuck up" NOT down), but there wasn't much chatter toward BHop when he used to make comments about fighters "starving themselves" to avoid him at 160? Do they not remember he wanted Shane to go up? Didn't he fight Winky at 170? Wasn't Wink a career 154-160 dude? Didn't Trinidad come up? How far off am I?

Btw, this isn't a dig at Bernard (though it sure could.....), but it seems that the same allowances boxing, in favor of the "respected legend" is rearing its ugly head again.

[dhoward126]

Danny,

Why do fight fans have selective memories? Meaning, people scolding Sergio for callling out May and Pac (btw, I agree he should "fuck up" NOT down), but there wasn't much chatter toward BHop when he used to make comments about fighters "starving themselves" to avoid him at 160? Do they not remember he wanted Shane to go up? Didn't he fight Winky at 170? Wasn't Wink a career 154-160 dude? Didn't Trinidad come up? How far off am I?

Btw, this isn't a dig at Bernard (though it sure could.....), but it seems that the same allowances boxing, in favor of the "respected legend" is rearing its ugly head again.

Why stop with Hopkins? Calzaghe wanted Taylor to come to the UK at 168 three months after he fought Cory Spinks, when he didn't Calzaghe said "See? Nobody wants to fight me wah wah wah," (The formula Calzaghe followed his whole career btw). Pacquiao is doing the same thing with Marquez, but it's okay then? Marvin Hagler and Bernard Hopkins made their careers by waiting out the smaller guys, I wrote it in my article about Sergio Martinez posted today, and yeah it is a double standard but that's just when your bullshit sensors have to go off and just go with it. Every fighter is granted a different set of rules by the public, hell I bet Pacquiao might fight Brandon Rios soon and people will be like "Okay, well he's a tough fighter cause that's what they want me to believe and Pacquiao only fights the best?" GTFO, but that's an unfortunate reality in boxing.

Thing about Bernard is that even though he made guys like Wright and Pavlik go up to fight him, I don't think Bhop was favored in any of those fights, people were actually thinking Pavlik was going to stop him! So Bernard does it to his advantage, he's a master-matchmaker, but I get your point.

Thanks for the questions!

[bnoles4life]

Why stop with Hopkins? Calzaghe wanted Taylor to come to the UK at 168 three months after he fought Cory Spinks, when he didn't Calzaghe said "See? Nobody wants to fight me wah wah wah," (The formula Calzaghe followed his whole career btw). Pacquiao is doing the same thing with Marquez, but it's okay then? Marvin Hagler and Bernard Hopkins made their careers by waiting out the smaller guys, I wrote it in my article about Sergio Martinez posted today, and yeah it is a double standard but that's just when your bullshit sensors have to go off and just go with it. Every fighter is granted a different set of rules by the public, hell I bet Pacquiao might fight Brandon Rios soon and people will be like "Okay, well he's a tough fighter cause that's what they want me to believe and Pacquiao only fights the best?" GTFO, but that's an unfortunate reality in boxing.

Thing about Bernard is that even though he made guys like Wright and Pavlik go up to fight him, I don't think Bhop was favored in any of those fights, people were actually thinking Pavlik was going to stop him! So Bernard does it to his advantage, he's a master-matchmaker, but I get your point.

Thanks for the questions!

Great point. I mentioned Bernard in this instance, b/c this isn't the first time he's been the recipient of the "double standard". First, let me point out, Bernard's 10 year reign and 21 MW title defenses is almost unfathomable. It's likely NEVER to be duplicated, at that weight, again. The double standard he benefits from is he stayed at MW, beating decent fighters for 10 years, but no superstars at that weight. His most notable wins come from beating guys who started 140 or lighter. Now, the one thing you hear about Roy Jones, Jr. is how he fought cab drivers and avoided the toughest fighters (Benn, McClellan, Eubanks, Michelczewski, etc.). My question is/was, "wasn't all of those fighters within 8 lbs of B-Hop?