re: Favorite fighter (boxer or mma) of all time

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As for being better than Bernard Hopkins, I say yes he was. He beat him relatively easily when they first fought and he claimed his hand was broken prior to the fight as well. Hopkins won a unanimous decision rematch, but that was 20 years into Roy's career and 17 years after the first fight when Roy was no longer Roy

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But B-Hop was still B-Hop. Which, depending on your preferred metric for quantifying greatness or bestness or the like, is a factor to either consider, or not consider.

Also, I don't know that i would characterize their first fight as a "relatively easy" win for Roy. I haven't watched that fight in a long long time, and so I could be mistaken, but my recollection of that fight is that it was a fairly close contest.

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*and I don't feel like pulling it up on youtube....at least not today