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Shpion
07-30-2007, 05:45 PM
I am not sure if it had been posted before but I just found some interesting statistics about the "great" fight between BH and WR.


"A post-fight CompuBox count found 132 combined clinches in the fight. Hopkins initiated 74, Wright 53, with five mutual clinches."
dragosuhail
07-30-2007, 05:51 PM
right on, mate.

and a foreigner like wladimir is howled down because of 62 clinches, and some of them peter didn't mind because he was so interested in lunging in for a nipple suck! :rofl

:thumbsup

bias is so funny, and annoying at the same time!
McGrain
07-30-2007, 05:53 PM
Less (just) than Frazier-Ali II.
dragosuhail
07-30-2007, 05:53 PM
whoa, i just posted that, and it said it was edited by erradict behaviour? has that poster gotten my account or what? yet it is exactly as i wrote it without changes. wtf? :huh
pioterbezkitu
07-30-2007, 05:55 PM
I just don't understand how these huggers can shit their pants watching this fight?
Ramshall1
07-30-2007, 05:59 PM
I friend of mine who used to be a big boxing fan saw the replay and said . .

"That fight just reminded me of why I hate boxing"
pipe wrenched
07-30-2007, 05:59 PM
Terrible, ugly, shitty, terrible, awful, sucky, terrible, shitty to watch fight.:yuck
McGrain
07-30-2007, 05:59 PM
bernard hopkins equals one of the most boring fighters in the history of the sport dumber than a stump to

Dumb, boring millionare.
Ramshall1
07-30-2007, 06:04 PM
Dumb, boring millionare.

ironic, yet true.
Marnoff
07-30-2007, 06:20 PM
bernard hopkins equals one of the most boring fighters in the history of the sport. dumber than a stump, too.

I helped you out a bit with your grammar and whatnot, since you're concerned with not being... dumb.
Marnoff
07-30-2007, 06:21 PM
People complain about Bernard, but look at the stats. It seems Winky did some clinching of his own.
pipe wrenched
07-30-2007, 06:27 PM
People complain about Bernard, but look at the stats. It seems Winky did some clinching of his own.

Absolutely. Both are great fighters and will be legends in their own rights, but the match makers for this one should be strung up by their toe nails for hurting the image of both fighters.:fire
bumdujour
07-30-2007, 06:36 PM
I am not sure if it had been posted before but I just found some interesting statistics about the "great" fight between BH and WR.


"A post-fight CompuBox count found 132 combined clinches in the fight. Hopkins initiated 74, Wright 53, with five mutual clinches."

"mutual clinches"???? is that another word for making out:lol: :lol:
DaHead242
07-30-2007, 06:39 PM
I watched it with 12 people and by the end I was the only one left watching. Everyone else went and played beer pong and stated that a "Curling match was more exciting than this fight."
huki
07-30-2007, 06:46 PM
Hopkins is a great fighter and was VERY exciting before he reached his 40's. People that talk shit about how he's the most boring fighter ever have probably only seen his last 5 or so fights. And for being dumb like some said, it's interesting how he's one of the smartest, if not the smartest fighter of this generation.
Rock0052
07-30-2007, 10:40 PM
right on, mate.

and a foreigner like wladimir is howled down because of 62 clinches, and some of them peter didn't mind because he was so interested in lunging in for a nipple suck! :rofl

:thumbsup

bias is so funny, and annoying at the same time!

Yeah, there is a double standard. I'm glad someone had the number of clinches in that "fight".
Shpion
07-30-2007, 10:59 PM
People complain about Bernard, but look at the stats. It seems Winky did some clinching of his own.

I think mostly people complain specifically about him because he is a very dirty fighter, that makes fights really ugly. He was not only initiating most of the clinches as the compubox showed but he was holding, headbutting and even tackling WR several times with his feet.

I wish compubox had the number of headbutts in this fight.
pipe wrenched
07-30-2007, 11:54 PM
Great Fighters.............SHITTY, SHITTY, SHITTY, FIGHT!!!!!!!!!
Ambition_Def
07-31-2007, 12:48 AM
right on, mate.

and a foreigner like wladimir is howled down because of 62 clinches, and some of them peter didn't mind because he was so interested in lunging in for a nipple suck! :rofl

:thumbsup

bias is so funny, and annoying at the same time!

Waldo actually clinched 94 times in the Sam Peter fight.

But I don't disagree with the OP. Hopkins-Wright was a shitty fight, courtesy of Hopkins.
Lance_Uppercut
07-31-2007, 12:56 AM
Glad I was too cheap to watch this. I'll probably youtube it anyway...
enquirer
07-31-2007, 04:01 AM
If b-hop is so smart,old school and well conditioned how come he cant clearly beat jermaine taylor in two consecutive attempts? The man is methodical,lazy,unwiling to engage,dirty,boring and has little dynamism....Top two middle my ass......He is a businessman with gloves.....
Kojiro
07-31-2007, 04:07 AM
I am not sure if it had been posted before but I just found some interesting statistics about the "great" fight between BH and WR.


"A post-fight CompuBox count found 132 combined clinches in the fight. Hopkins initiated 74, Wright 53, with five mutual clinches."

That's funny. I couldn't see the fight as I was on vacation and didn't even know the result. So I thought I'll just take a look at ESB a couple of days later. Surely the board would be bursting with comments about this "modern classic", the "true fight of the year for the boxing purist". Guess what, I had to dig real deep in the threads to find any indication the fight existed. A true marking of a shitty fight, I guess.