Entries tagged with "Bernard+Hopkins":
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On December 18, 2010 at Pepsi Coliseum in Quebec, Canada, ageless Bernard Hopkins, from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, challenged light heavyweight champion Jean Pascal, from Port-au-Prince, Haiti, for his WBC/IBO titles. The Executioner from the City of Brotherly Love was 51-5-1 going in. Pascal was 26-1.…
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On September 29, 2001 at New York's Madison Square Garden, WBC/IBF champion Bernard Hopkins, from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, fought WBA champion Felix Trinidad, from San Juan, Puerto Rico, in a middleweight unification bout. With the ruins of the Twin Towers still smoldering, Hopkins came in at 39-2-1.…
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On July 16, 2005 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada, WBA/WBC/IBF/WBO middleweight champion Bernard "The Executioner" Hopkins, from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, defended his titles against Jermain Taylor, from Little Rock, Arkansas. Hopkins was 46-2-1 coming. Taylor was undefeated at 23-0. The fight…
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On April 19, 1997 at Memorial Auditorium in Shreveport, Louisiana, IBF middleweight champion Bernard Hopkins, from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, defended his title against former WBA middleweight champion John David Jackson, from Denver, Colorado. Hopkins was 30-2-1 coming in. Jackson was 35-2. The fight…
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On January 31, 1998 at Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City, New Jersey, IBF middleweight champion Bernard Hopkins, from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, defended his title against former welterweight and junior middleweight champion Simon Brown, from Clarendon, Jamaica. Hopkins was 33-2-1 coming in. Brown was…
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When I turned back on the faucet of pugilistic info, I got doused with a whole load of stupid, dumb, crappy, and downright icky...
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“Yeah, it's going to be my biggest win. Yes, of course. This is the biggest name I fought after Bernard Hopkins...”
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Whether he utilizes the high-intensity buzzsaw style or he boxes from the outside, his goal is to do what his opponent isn't comfortable with…
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Eddie Hearn, last year, said that, in good conscience, he couldn’t be a part of such a farcical celebrity boxing spectacle. But what a difference a year makes…
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On Sept. 18, 2004, Bernard Hopkins fought Oscar De La Hoya at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, for the WBC/WBA/IBF/WBO middleweight titles. Hopkins was 44-2-1 at the time. De La Hoya was 37-3. Oscar was outboxing Bernard in the early rounds, but as the fight progressed Hopkins turned up the heat and punctuated…
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On October 15, 2011, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, WBC light heavyweight champion Bernard Hopkins defended his title against Chad Dawson. The fight failed to live up to expectations, even when the expectations were low. It ended prematurely, and unconvincingly, with Hopkins grimacing in the canvas…
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Being a fighter is like being a pilot. Flying an airplane is easy. Getting the plane into the air and back onto the ground is difficult…
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Today, he is 41 and finds himself recovering from a brutal loss, courtesy of the relentless Cletus Seldin…
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On Sept. 29, 2001 at New York's Madison Square Garden, middleweight champions Bernard "The Executioner" Hopkins, from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, fought Felix Trinidad, from San Juan, Puerto Rico, in an eagerly anticipated unification bout. The WBC, WBA and IBF tites were at stake. B-Hop was 39-2-1 coming.…
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Our role in our own fate is far more significant than we believe. I think Dr. Hopkins would most certainly agree…
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“We want to fight Errol Spence. Terence wants it and I think Errol wants it. There is one guy stopping it and that’s Al Haymon…”
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The flip side of carrying the weight of an entire sport on her shoulders is that, were Shields to lose, it may all fall apart—at least for the time being…
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The fighter known for snatching souls put together one of the most surprisingly sound boxing displays since Hopkins vs. Trinidad…
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Saturday night on DAZN, light heavyweight champion Dmitry Bivol will defend his WBA title against Joe Smith Jr....
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When the USA Network abandoned boxing for wrestling, that was a punch to the gut from which the Blue Horizon never fully recovered…
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It’s always a mistake to rule out a thinking man’s chances of pulling off the supposedly impossible…
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The two fighters both will get to do what they want. Winky will come forward with his high guard whilst Martinez will move backwards looking to potshot…
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Over the last several years—actually, the last couple decades—HBO became more of an enemy of the sport than the powerful ally it used to be…
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A stylish boxer-puncher who flirted with greatness in his prime, Pascal only came up short against the crème de la crème…
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At the end of the day, the fight was a good, competitive scrap with everything boxing fans claim to want from a main stage prizefight…
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In a matter of days they’ll let their fists do the talking and the thud of gloves hitting flesh will be music to many ears…
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Things would probably be better for American boxing if American fighters were given the superstar, hero treatment reserved for foreigners…
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“In the ring, a fighter can’t run. You run on a racetrack. A fighter moves around the ring to show his abilities and skills…”
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Over the last several years, some of the sport’s biggest stars have all walked away (or have been led away) from the network for various reasons…
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The point here may just be that we don’t get enough shockers like this, at least not at the highest level in this sport…
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Joe Smith Jr., the 28-year-old fighting construction worker from Long Island, never got the monstrous, life-changing payday that should’ve come his way…
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If the purpose of rankings and titles is to bring order and respectability to the sport, then they need to reflect what’s actually going on in the sport…
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Saturday night on ESPN, the double gold medalist from Ukraine will make the jump to lightweight and find a potentially dangerous challenge in Jorge Linares...
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Did the fight with Golovkin ruin Jacobs? Cancer couldn’t do it, and Golovkin, however deadly, isn’t nearly as deadly as cancer…
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Crawford’s promoter (and I use that term very loosely), Bob Arum, seems to have officially stopped caring about getting him real exposure…
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Floyd Mayweather Jr. is one of the standout boxers from a state which includes Stanley Ketchel, Kid Lavigne, Ad Wolgast and James Toney…
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Nobody could talk trash like the former welterweight and junior middleweight champ and it’s pretty safe to say that there’ll never be anyone like him again…
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“A fighter that Frank Warren brings over, from wherever he brings him from, you gotta take that seriously,” said Hopkins. “I know from experience…”
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A great fighter can handle being beaten in the ring, but it’s humiliating to be duped into a bad spot by politics and business…
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All top-level fighters understand the importance of mental fortitude, confidence, and ability to overcome adversity…
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Kovalev will have to keep on doing what he does best. The savage knockout has the best chance of bringing crowds back, again and again…
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Welcome to the wild world of Zeferino Jackson—boxing scribe, provocateur, satirist, and possible sexual deviant…
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The WBA is starting this initiative to help kids in poor and troubled areas by getting them involved in the sport of boxing…
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Undefeated Ahmed Elbiali will face former world champion Jean Pascal in a 10-round light heavyweight scrap…
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Only in fairy tales and in cheesy monster movies do slain beasts rise to terrorize the world once again…
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Experience is to one’s vocation what seasoning is to a dish. Like wine, there’s just a bolder taste that only time can conjure…
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“At the end of the day, these careers are gonna stop, and the cheers are gonna stop at some point, and what are you left with?”
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Somehow in the comfort of our exchange I managed to conjure the courage to ask about the De La Hoya fight…
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It only takes that one guy who is capable enough to stand in the eye of the storm to deconstruct and render it mortal…
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“I remember a lot of great champions, like Carlos Monzon, Sugar Ray Leonard, Marvin Hagler, Bernard Hopkins. Right now I think new stories, new times for us…”