Comments Thread For: The Thrill of the Chase Continues To Motivate Hopkins

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By Jake Donovan - Bernard Hopkins has achieved just about everything a fighter in his position could ever possibly ask for. He’d have still been celebrated as a first round Hall of Famer if he decided to call it a career immediately after his historic middleweight championship winning effort over Felix Trinidad more than a decade ago.

Instead, Hopkins decided to march towards the history books. Well over a decade later, the pursuit of his own records and upsetting the apple cart continue to drive the 48-year old former two-division world champion.

Those motivating factors have led Philly’s finest to this weekend’s challenge, when he faces unbeaten Tavoris Cloud for a piece of the light heavyweight crown. The two square off at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, with HBO to televise.

A win would allow Hopkins (52-6-2, 32KO) to shatter his own record of becoming the oldest fighter ever to win a title of any kind. But even if he manages to once again outdo himself, don’t expect him to stop there.

“What drives me is that I'm not satisfied, even though I know I've done a lot to be grateful for, and I am. Trust me, I am. God knows I am. But I'm the kind of person that if I'm not satisfied, not unsatisfied or selfish, not to a point where there’s nothing to be done. So I'm the type of person, again, when I'm not satisfied I keep driving,” states Hopkins, who gives away 17 years in age to the unbeaten Cloud (24-0, 19KO). [Click Here To Read More]

[edgarg]

It's a long, long time since I have not been able to read a Jake Donovan article from start to finish-if ever. I was following where it was going until I got to the "satisfied, unsatisfied, upside-down, back-to-front gobblede****. Of course that's the way Hopkins is, voluble to incoherency, completely satisfied (pun) with the sound of his own voice.

Anyway,I have just ordinary intelligence and that was enough for me. I felt I should remark on it.

[edgarg]

Originally Posted by edgarg

It's a long, long time since I have not been able to read a Jake Donovan article from start to finish-if ever. I was following where it was going until I got to the "satisfied, unsatisfied, upside-down, back-to-front gobblede****. Of course that's the way Hopkins is, voluble to incoherency, completely satisfied (pun) with the sound of his own voice.

Anyway,I have just ordinary intelligence and that was enough for me. I felt I should remark on it.

I have no idea why my term is "starred". I just used a commonplace description of voluble, contorted confusion.

[simonihirst]

This is going to be an execution of the old school for Hopkins. Cloud has neither the skill or experience to be playing with the likes of Hopkins.

[APBrooklyn]

HoWould live to see BHop score a good ol fashioned schooling over Cloud.....he appears to still be very capable in al facets of his trickery - this won't be all that easy for BHop though..

[Bushbaby]

Too bad they shut down the manufacturing plant that produces these type of fighters. We had a brief stint with the Punisher. Hell maybe my bwoy Trout can fill in the whole P Dub left.