Hopkins vs Rempe
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If you really want to know, examine their records. They both competed for a long time so it`s all there in black and white. All you will get here is a popularity contest.
Both were (are) great players for sure, but I have to give the slight edge to Rempe.
Both were (are) monsters, but I'd have to say King James had a level of precision on kicks and carom angles that I've never seen equaled.
Maybe so, but you can't talk just about 9 ball with these two. They both played great Straight Pool and One Pocket.
I think I'd give the edge to Hopkins in One Pocket.
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I think its a push, cept in 9 ball, Rempe gets it. But other games its a coin toss.
I think this will be a popularity contest, but Allen was the better All-around player --- especially for the cash and even more especially for betting their own cash.
- Allen was the first player to win the US Open 9ball and World 14.1 in the same year, only to be matched by Mika decades later
- Allen was the first non-Asian to win the rotation division of the Japan World Open (Allen won the 14.1 and 2nd in the 9ball in the same year)
- Allen ran 10-and-out three times in a row on a 12x6 snooker table (using regulation balls) for $10,000/game
Jim is an excellent player and a definite champion, however.
- Allen was the first player to win the US Open 9ball and World 14.1 in the same year, only to be matched by Mika decades later
- Allen was the first non-Asian to win the rotation division of the Japan World Open (Allen won the 14.1 and 2nd in the 9ball in the same year)
- Allen ran 10-and-out three times in a row on a 12x6 snooker table (using regulation balls) for $10,000/game
Jim is an excellent player and a definite champion, however.
Mika has never won the world 14.1 event.
You are correct--- I thought he won it 2 years ago, I was mistaken.
I don't see how this one is even close if we are talking about an all around. Both were jam up 9 ball and straight pool players, at the top level of their generation. But Hopkins was a top one hole player also. Rempe was not even a rated one hole player.
My 1/2 cent from someone who never saw either in their prime...
My 1/2 cent from someone who never saw either in their prime...
This is where I'm standing.
King James won more tournaments....
..but a lot of top players ducked Allen Hopkins for the cash.
imo...the poll should've had more options
That is true and it stuck in Rempe's craw that he could never win the US Open 9 Ball, let alone the 14.1.
REMPE WAS IN FINALS AND WON AGAINST EFREN IN 86 FINALS FOR BIG MONEY AND IS A INTERNATIONAL CHAMPION AS WELL OVER SEAS IN SNOOKER AND A ALL AROUND CHAMPION. ALWAYS AT THE TOP AND DOMINATED THE SCENE IN THE 70S WITH MANY CONSECUTIVE TITLES WON IN 9BALL. VOTE GOES FOR KING JAMES REMPE! 1 POCKET CHAMPION AS WELL AT JOHNSTON CITY AND MANY OTHER TITLES TO HIS NAME. I KNOW SIGEL DID NOT LIKE PLAYING STRAIGHT POOL AGAINST HIM! BEAT SIGEL IN A EXHIBITION WHEN MIKE NEEDED A FEW TO WIN REMPE CAME BACK FROM -2 WITH A 200 + RUN TO WIN! A CHAMPION FOR SURE!:wink:
Rempe was never the 14.1 player Hopkins was. Hopkins never lost a 1000 point match in his life. Hopkins beat Lassiter by running 300-something *SAFE* and then two-hundred something for a total of 500-something unanswered points in two innings.
Rempe never "dominated" the scene... that's a little out there. It's good to hear Rempe snapped off an exhibition against Sigel.... because in a "major" such as the world 14.1 or us open 9-ball, Rempe couldn't get there.
Nobody beat Sigel more than Sigel beat them. If Rempe beat Sigel in an exhibition, he simply didn't play him long enough or often enough.
rempe was at top of more tounaments than hopkins! HE ALWAYS PLACED HIGH AT ANY GAME CONSISTENTLY.