Chapter 484: Light Night Boxing (7)

Hopkins reflects on his professional boxing career so far, "Actually, I've lost twice in my career so far, and besides the one to Roy Jones Jr., there was also a loss, and that one loss was earlier, the first fight of my career. ”

"My opponent was a fighter named Mitchell, who was also playing his first professional fight, but I lost that fight. But from my first loss until I met Roy Jones Jr. in the middleweight division, I fought almost twenty fights, all of which were victories. ”

"But Roy Jones Jr. made me very passive, he was so talented, I lost to him by a few points." Hopkins continued.

"But I guess losing to Roy Jones Jr. is nothing, it's so hard not to lose to Roy Jones Jr." Host Catherman said.

"Now Roy Jones Jr. is indeed in full swing, sweeping the entire light heavyweight division, but when he fought me, Roy Jones Jr. had just debuted and was not so popular, and now Roy Jones Jr. has been deified. But it's true that Roy Jones Jr. has an amazing record when he plays amateur games. Hopkins continued.

"I know that Roy Jones Jr. was a U.S. Golden Glove Award winner, and he also won a silver medal in the light heavyweight category at the Seoul Olympics." For a boxing superstar like Roy Jones Jr., Katherman naturally knows a lot, and continued, "Now Roy Jones Jr. has gathered all the light heavyweight belts in one body, and has knocked out almost all the fighters who have challenged him, and he is indeed somewhat deified now, but do you think anyone in the light heavyweight division can beat Roy Jones Jr. today?" I've even heard that Roy Jones Jr. is planning to fight in the heavyweight division and win a heavyweight title. ”

Hearing Catherman's question, Hopkins' expression was also very serious, and he said: "There is really no fighter in the current light heavyweight division who has the ability to defeat Roy Jones Jr., but no fighter will always win, I believe that the fighter who defeated Roy Jones Jr. will appear sooner or later." As for Roy Jones Jr. wanting to go to the heavyweight division to challenge the heavyweight world boxing champion and get a boxing championship belt, I think if Roy Jones Jr. wants to directly cross the welterweight division from the light heavyweight division to the heavyweight division to fight, he must be crazy, any boxing champion in the heavyweight division can easily tear him apart, and there is a reason why professional boxing is so thin in the weight class. ”

Hearing Hopkins emphasize that professional boxing is divided into levels, and said that the heavyweight boxing champion can easily tear Roy Jones Jr. apart, Wang Hao also laughed in his heart.

Wang Hao knows that Hopkins understands the truth that professional boxing is divided into levels, and Hopkins' own physique is actually a light heavyweight fighter, but after he was defeated by Roy Jones Jr. when he started in the middleweight division, Hopkins did not upgrade again, and has been fighting in the middleweight division with a light heavyweight physique.

So when De La Hoya and Trinidad were promoted to middleweight and fought with Hopkins in the later period, they all suffered a loss, and De La Hoya and Trinidad, who were promoted from the small division, were not as good as Hopkins in terms of physical confrontation.

But Hopkins' expectation that Roy Jones Jr. would be promoted to the heavyweight division to fight was indeed wrong, Wang Hao knew that a few years later, Roy Jones Jr., who was really invincible in the light heavyweight division, did upgrade to the heavyweight division and fought a fight, and also defeated a heavyweight champion with technical flow, that is, Ruiz, the heavyweight champion of the WBA at that time, and Roy Jones Jr. was indeed Ruiz who crossed the welterweight challenge from light heavyweight.

Although Roy Jones Jr., who won the WBA heavyweight title, immediately relinquished the title and returned to the light heavyweight division, Roy Jones Jr. has already made boxing history with no one before or since, and only a genius like Roy Jones Jr. is likely to pull off such a defiant victory.

Thinking of this, Wang Hao also felt that although he definitely didn't have the idea of getting involved in the heavyweight division, when he was upgraded to middleweight and defeated boxers like Hopkins and Taylor, and became the king of the middleweight division, he could follow Roy Jones Jr. and challenge Roy Jones Jr. from the middleweight division to the super middleweight division directly to the light heavyweight division.

And in Wang Hao's eyes, little Roy Jones is not invincible, because Wang Hao, who has experienced the previous life, knows where the key to defeating little Roy Jones is.

Roy Jones Jr., who was promoted to the heavyweight division to win the WBA heavyweight title and returned to the light heavyweight, is the most brilliant, at the peak of his career and popularity, at this time, almost all fighters are talking about Roy Jones Jr.'s color change, and his feet are already weak before he steps into the ring to fight with Roy Jones Jr.

But Wang Hao knows that at this time, Roy Jones Jr. is actually the most vulnerable, and excessive weight loss has had a great impact on Roy Jones Jr., and has become a boxer at another level.

That's how Anthony Tafel came in.

Anthony Tafel used to be the captain of the U.S. boxing team at the Atlanta Olympics, and his technical strength was naturally very strong, but he was not very well-known and popular after entering professional boxing, but defeating Roy Jones Jr., who was at his peak, made Anthony Tafel famous.

Now that there are still a few years left before Roy Jones Jr. upgraded to challenge Ruiz and then was knocked out of the ring by Anthony Tafel, Wang Hao knows that if he grasps the rhythm of the promotion, this opportunity to shock the boxing world and create a boxing miracle is likely to belong to him.

As long as Wang Hao can grasp the opportunity to upgrade and challenge Roy Jones Jr., it is when Roy Jones Jr. has just returned from the heavyweight division, and Anthony Tafel's style of play is well studied, Wang Hao will have a chance to defeat Roy Jones Jr. at the peak of Roy Jones Jr., or even knock out Roy Jones Jr.

HBO's program continued, and when the program talked about Hopkins' unknown loss, the host Katherman also focused on talking to Hopkins about how Hopkins came out of the failure and achieved today's results.

In the process, Hopkins is amazing, from a fighter who lost his first professional fight to a middleweight hegemon, Hopkins' experience is inspiring.

Immediately afterwards, the host chatted with David Red and "Viper" Forrester about some of their untold stories, and David Reid focused on his story after winning the only boxing gold medal of the American team at the Atlanta Olympics, and talked about some things in his personal life with "Viper" Forrester.

Immediately after, host Catherman talked about Trinidad.