Warren Blasts Bernard Hopkins Over Racial Slur

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Tensions have been high among boxing fans over a comment made last weekend in Las Vegas by light heavyweight champion Bernard Hopkins. Hopkins and his next likely opponent, super middleweight champion Joe Calzaghe, met face-to-face and had two verbal battles during the long Floyd Mayweather Jr-Ricky Hatton weekend at the MGM Grand. [details]

[wigsa]

Hope this is finalised soon-and that it's in the UK.What do ye think is the possibility of it being in Cardiff?

Hopkins is a scumbag by nature,and at his age should've had the cop on not to say something like that-but it just adds more flavour to the tension that's already there and will just make the bout more anxiously awaited.It could well have been a publicity thing.

Gonna be a great fight when it happens!
Will Calzaghe go up or Hopkins go down btw?

[Artest]

Disgusting.

I'm a black man who is a a fan of both Bernard Hopkins and Joe Calzaghe. I believe what Hopkins said was disgusting, moronic and tasteless. He really should apologize to all people for saying something as ****** as what came out of his mouth. I truly believe that Bernard is a good person, but there is no excuse for a human being to include race in anything. As a warrior he should respect another warrior, but as a human being their should be an even greater amount of respect.

[Chunk..]

Frank Warren's a ****!!!!!!!!

[deevel79]

If it were the other way around, and it were Joe who said "i will never lose to a black guy" Certain people here would've made an uproar about it. Al Sharpton would've showed up here on ESB.

[The Noose]

Alan Minter said the same thing "I'll never lose my title to a black man" before he fought Hagler.

And Hagler beat the sweet **** outa him. But then all the racists started throwing bottles into the ring as Hagler was celebrating.

I doubt the same thing will happen here, but Hopkins will get his arse kicked.

[Lucky13]

Bernard is a *****. I also remember what he did to Trinidad and I thought that was shocking, now this? There is no excuse for what he did, I'd fine his ass to bankruptcy..

[steptwome]

Forget about the slur.........Just make the fight happen. A bit unsensitive and yes "classless", but who cares. Props to B-Hop for getting under thier skin

[Lucky13]

Forget about the slur.........Just make the fight happen. A bit unsensitive and yes "classless", but who cares. Props to B-Hop for getting under thier skin

Trust me, you wouldn't say "who cares" like a little idiot if he was talking about your race.

[Kobe Bryant]

You know he doesn't mean it he just said it for attention and to make things heated. Bernard will do anything to sell a fight. I seriously doubt he meant that, not defending him at all because it was dumb.