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By William Dettloff
In case you missed it, Bernard Hopkins made some headlines in the days before Floyd Mayweather’s win over Ricky Hatton by reportedly telling future opponent Joe Calzaghe that he, Hopkins, would never permit himself to lose to a “white boy.”
“I will never let a white boy beat me. Never,” Hopkins reportedly said during what was ostensibly a chance meeting with Calzaghe in Las Vegas. “Call it whatever you want. I’ll never let a white boy beat me.”
This gave opportunity to Frank Warren, the most powerful promoter in Britain, to engage in some righteous indignation. “I’ve heard some disgusting trash talk in my 30 years in boxing, but that’s the lowest of the lows,” he told Setanta Sports, an international sports broadcaster based in Ireland.
“If Joe said ‘I’d never lose to a black man,’ which he would never dream of saying, he would be nicked by the race relations people, and rightly so,” Warren continued. “There’s no need for racial slurs, and to say those derogatory things is diabolical. He should know better and his comments show a lack of class.”
In case you missed it, Bernard Hopkins made some headlines in the days before Floyd Mayweather’s win over Ricky Hatton by reportedly telling future opponent Joe Calzaghe that he, Hopkins, would never permit himself to lose to a “white boy.”
“I will never let a white boy beat me. Never,” Hopkins reportedly said during what was ostensibly a chance meeting with Calzaghe in Las Vegas. “Call it whatever you want. I’ll never let a white boy beat me.”
This gave opportunity to Frank Warren, the most powerful promoter in Britain, to engage in some righteous indignation. “I’ve heard some disgusting trash talk in my 30 years in boxing, but that’s the lowest of the lows,” he told Setanta Sports, an international sports broadcaster based in Ireland.
“If Joe said ‘I’d never lose to a black man,’ which he would never dream of saying, he would be nicked by the race relations people, and rightly so,” Warren continued. “There’s no need for racial slurs, and to say those derogatory things is diabolical. He should know better and his comments show a lack of class.”
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