I miss boxing on HBO. Great and historic fights, great atmosphere, and great commentary by great commentators.

Winky Wright was the Eddie Perkins of his generation. Fought everyone, wasn't scared to fight them in their backyards, held his own with everyone, and ends up getting forgotten. Real boxing fans will know how good he was though.

People don’t remember winky Wright. It’s a shame.

Hopkins makes things so difficult for other fighters i love it

X showed his pedigree in this fight. Needed all those tricks to win, not an easy style but handled his biz in a very effective manner. Won from the outside using mobility and pivoting around using timed attacks. Strength negated winks inside game, grabbing is part of the sport. Tyson Fury, Hopkins, Ali, Andre ward all employ grappling tactics to smother attacks. It’s bending the rules not breaking them.Gruelling fight, both guys exceptional fighting when tired. That’s the name of game. Best sport ever despite all the bs

Winky was my favourite fighter in this era he fought everybody and I think all the other fighters he faced would say he was there toughest fight

Winky was a problem for any fighter he met and I haven't seen anybody even coming close to solving this problem. Bernard solved it with his extra dirtiness in this fight ...

Winky Wright WANTED ALL THE SMOKE. One of my favorite boxers.

This fight could have gone either way...had Winky fought like Winky. B-Hop made him chase and then hit him when he wasn't ready. Hopkins won ALL the inside battles. Winky threw a lot of wild punches....outta frustration. Regardless if he was holding too much or not, Hopkins landed the harder, cleaner shots. Punch & grab is a true boxing technique, clearly Winky didn't prepare for at least one of B-Hop's strengths...

Love that Bernard Hopkins had John David Jackson in his corner

B Hop is my favorite of all time but Winky is a legit legend!

That was a professionally delivered, well timed and placed head butt by Hopkins. He gained momentum coming off the ropes as Wright was going in to punch. When you look at in slow mo, it's quite telling.

I think a few of Winky Wright’s Losses could’ve been Wins. This one I would’ve been happy with a Draw

Jim lampley one of the best commentators in my era Jim we love you man.

Great interview by Hopkins, I think he won the fight but it was a close fight and he gave winky credit for being good!

I wish my boyfriend would hug me as much as these two guys hugged throughout the whole fight.

Bernard Hop= technician and great footwork Winky W= Defensive Genuis+Goalkeeper type boxer can block the shots.

I actually don't think they have a ton in common to be honest. They are both defensive, but that is about where it stops. Hopkins employs lateral movement, head movement inside, and counterpunching to limit opposition punch output to one punch at a time. On the other hand, Wright stands stationary, puts his guard up, blocks as many punches as his opponent can throw, and then counters with his jab. Hopkins showed superiority here, but I don't think either is a poor man's version of the other.

Fight was close..bhop dirty tactics helped bhop for sure..fight was a draw..also fight should of been few yrs earlier and at 160lb..winky never was a light heavyweight..winky one of the all time greats

Бернард, не позволяет Роналду, зацепиться джебом! Перехватывает атаку! Спасибо!

I miss Emanuel Steward's voice, HBO boxing just isn't the same w/out him idc about Larry Merchant but Steward was the only unbiased commentator in that panel

best thing Winky did was leave DC when he did. a lot of guys from his neighborhood got caught up in the mix

Crazy to believe that Hopkins was 42 years old in this fight. Damn 2007 Hopkins with this movement, inside fighting, and counter punching ability would give 2010's and 2020's (today's) MIddleWeight/SuperMiddleWeights nightmares. ;/ Only 2021-2022 Bivol and Canelo would make it a fight against this version of BHOP. Canelo would struggle with the defense and Bernard would potshot Bivol on the inside to limit his mobility.

Когда явно идет, намеренно головой, надо останавливать бой и засчитывать поражение таким боксёрам как Хопкинс.

Hopkins is a master of his craft. What he does in the ring is pure art.

Bernard "Triple H" Hopkins! Holding, Hugging, Headbutting

Hopkins used his head as an Effective weapon during this fight. Bernard was worried about Losing to Winky so he had to get a little Dirty👎🖓

winky Wright was a more aggressive crowd pleasing fighter towards the end of his career, if he had fought more reserved and defensive I think he would've won. He was overreaching too much

One thing I didn’t like about this fight was Hopkin’s excessive holding. He usually likes to tie up his opponent and fight the insight game, (which I appreciate), but I only saw that in the last 3 rounds. And maybe even the 1st round, but for the most part there was a lot of holding. I thoughts the fight was a lot closer as well, but Wright did seem to lose quite a bit of steam the last five rounds. Which only led to more holding from Hopkins. Two great fighters, but not their best work.

I'm glad Whinky fought him back, and was clean the whole fight.

The thing that pissed me off was Winky didn’t stay busy after this fight he waited years.

"HeadButt Hopkins"... 🤔

Underated fight

Hopkins had the best head-but in the business.

Hate’em or love’em, Hopkins’ a legend. He stole that one that night. I would of hated to fight a guy like this, Winky needed to shoulder shrug him off like Dawson did!?!? 😂..

So many fighters that fight Bernard get big gashes from his head

Господи помилуй! До сих пор, спорят насчёт этого поединка! Мне грешнику, чуть больше понравился в этом бою, Хопкинс, чуть хитрее дрался! Не всегда правда, строго придерживаясь правил! Спасибо!

Como le ayuda la promotora a Bernard hopkins, era el privilegiado por la promotora de de la hoya. Wright ganó esa pelea a pesar de muchas infracciones de Hopkins.

Underrated fight, even tho they were both passed their primes still a classic in my opinion.

that ref aint a good one he should have taking like 4 points from hopkins he been head butting and holding true the entire fight

Pure art, is that what you call constant defence. To think people critisise Floyd Mayweather for being defensive, Floyd boxes and defends and also fights when he has to, Bernard spoils and fouls an opponent. He makes great fighters look terrible, I'm glad Calzaghe never gave him a rematch, he didn't deserve it.

Facing Winky Wright is like trying to hit an armored car.

Hopkins literally lands about 5 clean headbutts per round, in every fight. For some reason he always got away with it

You have to be a true fight fan to understand what bhop did to winky!!! Incredible amount of skill to nullify winky s ultra boring turtle defense style.Bernard is super slick in there.Fans sometimes don't appreciate what he's really employing in the Ring.Its not necessarily how many punches your throw,but damage done.

I think I saw this fight as well.. WINKY WIRGHT was my favourite fighter back in this time.. WINKY travelled the world to fight ppl before making it big in the sport in the 1990's and on.. He was a top top operator. I loved his picaboo style of fighting.. He was a really skillful & great champiob ib his time.. Did Winky make big money in the end with his big fights.. WINKY beat VARGAS that night too btw. He won that fight. Vargas was a good fighter but his movement was bad at times.. Hopkins was one of the cleverest fighters of his Era I have to say.. HOPKINS was still fighting at 46 years of age, wasn't he??

That was fascinating!both boxers did their best and the judges have done their jobs too.well done!thank you for allowing us to view this video.more power to you all

Hopkins should've had multiple points deducted. Lots of head butts.

this is so 2000s this is so 2007

I really think the cut affected Wright tremendously but it's a fight he had to make the correct adjustments & unfortunately he didn't so Hopkins did what he had to do

Andre Ward vs. Bernard Hopkins should've happened. CompuBox would've needed an extra category for "Amount of headbutts landed"

Pelea enfadosa puros abrazos garantía las peleas mexicanas

nazim Richardson, Freddie Roach and John David Jackson one corner. Not bad

The fight was stolen from Winky.

This wasn’t a bad fight despite how ugly it was. Probably one of the most hideous fights I’ve ever seen. But both guys worked very hard this whole fight and relied mostly on power punches on the inside, which is the exact opposite of what I expected. Here’s how I scored it: Round 1: 10/9 Hopkins Round 2: 9/10 Wright (19-19) Round 3: 9/10 Wright (28-29) Round 4: 9/10 Wright (37-39) Round 5: 10/9 Hopkins (47-48) Round 6: 10/9 Hopkins (57-57) Round 7: 10/9 Hopkins (67-66) Round 8: 10/9 Hopkins (77-75) Round 9: 10/9 Hopkins (87-84) Round 10: 10/9 Hopkins (97-93) Round 11: 10/9 Hopkins (107-102) Round 12: 10/9 Hopkins (117-111) I ended up with a 117-111 scorecard for Bernard Hopkins, and had him completely sweeping the last 8 rounds of the fight. Most of the rounds were tough to score, but I saw Hopkins using his size advantage on the inside and landing the harder punches, and Wright just looked sloppy to me in rounds 10-12.

I see Winky got outta that "FlatFoot, in the Pocket Style" Real Quick for THIS fight. Can't fight that Style against Hopkins. Winky movin like a "Cheetah" Tonite, Neva seen him move THIS fast, Hopkins makin him Work, lol🤣🤣

I'on't think I ever had a conflict with the way emanual commentates

Winky won this fight 115-113 download fight score app and view the average score most of us had winky winning.

I wonder if Winky developed his style in part with the thought of defeating his Florida rival Roy Jones. Its a style designed to pressure and rush his opponent by way of coming in with a shelled up high gaurd, to take away the distance, and unload volume from there. I've been studying Roy Jones lately, and it struck me that Winky employs an almost opposite style to Roy. Both fighters were great in their own way.

1. Hopkins 2. Wright 3. Wright 4. Wright 5. Hopkins 6. Wright 7. Hopkins 8. Hopkins 9. Wright 10. Hopkins 11. Hopkins 12. Hopkins 115-113 Bernard Hopkins

Hopkins footwork Is classic.

There's somethings psychologically brilliant about Hopkins and his trainer❣🥳🥰👑✌🏆🤣🤝

Never been a winky fan i like the way he fought this fight I love watching B-hop but this fight I didn't like all the head using by Hopkins did alot of y'all guys see how Hopkins kept scraping his head on winky's cut every time they clinched from rounds 9 all the way thru not when Bernard was attacking iM talking about during the holding smh I got annoyed seeing that i wanted to see b-hop win but with a better way much like the earlier rounds when caught winky with that good punch in round 2

How could anybody watch this and think hopkins won?

Crowd is frustrated! Fighters are frustrated!! Referee is frustrated!!! Commentators are frustrated!!!! :)

Hopkins is going to smother with his left shoulder-Stewart.

One problem with Winky is lack of power. He's landing shots, but even his "clean" shots aren't moving Hopkins backwards. There's no real pop. Both fighters.... Man boxing is hard. But Hopkins SHOULD OF BEEN penalized multiple times for holding. That's how Winky should of won.

They didn't even try to cover up they already decided Hopkins would win this fight before they got in the ring and you could realize that by the fact it was a unanimous decision. Wasn't nothing unanimous about that except Hopkins was exposed and not just for his lack in boxing ability at that age. Hopkins was proven to be part of boxing raphia cheating syndicate. BIYOW! Winky won that fight. It was more a fight than boxing.

hopkins doesnt make it look pretty but he gets the job done...its odd cause hes always on the receiving end of bad decisions, but they got it right i had it 115-113hopkins, it was actually a good fight for two defensive guys, i just like that fact bernard can make it rough

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Hopkins keep on hold all the match lo

I think the serious cut inflicted on Winky Wright early in the fight deteriorated Wright's abilities in the fight . Hence the overwhelming unanimous decision won by Bernard Hopkins

Chess-match of boxing.

Bernard BOPkins. Damn! bop...bop....bop... He uses his head like a freaking jab.

Bernard had 3 future hall fame coaches in his corner at the same time in Richardson, Roach, and Jackson.

hop should ask winky to marry him...hugs & hold him all the time

I always liked Winky and he never got his due. He was a great fighter without a huge punch. That said he beat a lot of great ones. I didn’t care for Hopkins style, especially later in his career. He would throw a couple and clinch and he would hold and hit. Those that said Winky won this fight have a point.

I met winky in 2005 he paid for my meal after we had a conversation i was tellin him be carful cuzz he was close to my hood. But winky a well intelligent cool guy he mad humble too

winky is def the poor mans hopkins, he employed more of a shell defense, his footwork wasnt as good as hopkins but he was a very crafty veteran but i knew hopkins was going to win this fight hes a bit more dynamic...there both hall of famers

every time hopkins attack expected followed by his head to headbutting the opponent,a lot of fights by Hopkins is using a dirty tactics,GOOD FIGHT winky you gived your best you are real fighter...

Yeah winky won that shit we ordered that shit I was pissed off cause he always get robbed tho

Hopkins,farfullero,y cuando te dan un cabezazo a ti lloras como una nena.Mirad la película con Roy Jones Jr

i agree, but i've been able to find a couple of good entertaining fights involving winky: his fights against vargas and taylor

When two defensive boxers collides on the ring expect that more people will boo them.

Winky. So many greats, it's hard to say who your favorite top 10 of all time are.

Hopkins,LOST BY HOLDING ON THE ENTIRE"WRESTLING", EVENT. ELEMENTARY KID PEACE OUT 🇱🇷

Nasty fighter!

Winky Wright was wearing those sweatpant shorts you only see at flee markets lol

How'd that whole Calzaghe call-out work out for ya, Bernie? Oopsies! 😂

Freddy Roach GOAT corner man.

Winky was really that dude. And Bernard is one of the greatest ever

It hurts having to listen to Max for an hour. Truly painful

Winky Wright is simply small for light heavy weight..

Lol. "A poor man hopkins"

Winky was really good 👍 but not great in my opinion. Definitely not deserving to be in the HOF. his biggest wins were his victory over Trinidad and his two wins over Mosley. That's hardly a HOF career. But the HOF bar was lowered when they inducted Riddick Bowe. So I guess anybody can get in.

The headbutt cut on Winky Wright is more an upper eyelid cut . It is lower, closer to the eye and more medically dangerous than an eyebrow cut . that cut gets any deeper it could possibly damage Wright's vision permanently in that eye . Its similar to the cut Vitali Klitschko suffered from a punch by Lennox Lewis . It was deeper and you could actually see the white of upper part of Klitschko's eyeball . The referee saw the danger and correctly stopped the fight

Back when Winky was apart of the Roc

i always score fights like this a draw. if you think bernard won this fight, then clealy you think canelo beat lara, and i have a feeling none of the people saying bhop won scored for canelo.. just a hunch.

Siempre sera recordado por ser un tramposo .y peliador bien sucio

😡No one😠No body like hopking😳😡😠NO ONE🌶🌶🌶🌶🌶🌶🌶

Hopkins has always been Dirtyyyyyyy