Bernard Hopkins, Enjoys Being Bernard Hopkins

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By Patrick Kehoe - He’s mean and cunning and wants each prospective foe to know it, to appreciate the dire consequences they face, the sheer mastery he feels in being feared. Call it projection of his basic defence mechanism because it certainly cannot any longer be called invincibility. After listening to Bernard Hopkins rambling on the record, in full promotional ecstasy, you understand that talk may be cheap, but, it fills in nicely as colour around thick black lines of comic book patterning.

“I’m the consummate fighter... a master boxer... I’m the matador and he’s the bull... There’s no style that I can’t unravel... I am not Jeff Lacy with seventeen fights; I am going to punish the Brit... Take him out into the deep waters.”

Presumably, Hopkins equates besting Winky Wright ten pounds over the Floridians best fighting weight and the self-referential has been, Antonio Tarver, with a mathematical certainty: Hopkins – Wright – Tarver > Calzaghe – Kessler – Lacy. Not that he’s alone; few in boxing seem to realize that Wright and Tarver are both fighting on borrowed time as yesterday’s men. Then again, Hopkins – Calzaghe can be viewed as being all about yesterday’s man. [details]

[dracmyster@gmai]

there is no doubt that hopkins is good,but can he handle calzaghe's work rate i think not ,points win for joe and a defeat by a white boy for b-hop so roll on april 19 to shut the yank up

[Chase8400]

Popkins

I wonder what B-hop will say in the post fight pressers. He will certainly look like a fool with anything other than a victory.

[xfiles]

What a pretty way to dress up the typical Hopkins negativity/Calzaghe ball sucking rhetoric. So they key points of this pretentious article are that 1. Winky Wright and Tarver where has beens who beat themselves. Hopkins was humiliated by Taylor. Hopkins can't back up what he says and Calzaghe is the bigger man by rising above it all. What a bunch of bull****. Hopkins by UD or late stoppage. The boxing gods will not allow a fraud like Calzaghe to justify his whole bum fighting, WBOgus title defending career with a win against one of the sports true greats.

[Evil_Meat]

man after weeks and weeks of hopkins talking you really kinda start to believe the guy. I think Hopkins might somehow edge this one out but i would not be surprised if Hopkins' age really shows and he loses

[Jolly Roger]

man after weeks and weeks of hopkins talking you really kinda start to believe the guy. I think Hopkins might somehow edge this one out but i would not be surprised if Hopkins' age really shows and he loses

Speak for yourself. There is a big bandwagon rolling for Hopkins now though, it always happens in the lead up to a big fight, the fans always hype up their mans strengths and play down the favourites strengths, while exaggerating his flaws. It happened in the lead up to Hatton/Floyd aswell, Hatton fans were very loud in reasoning their bias, and now we're seeing history repeat itself with Hopkins fans.

[jbin333]

Good Luck B-Hop!!!

Hopkins wins if he's able to turn this fight into a scrappy dirty dog fight. He wins if he's able to run in with his big head and cut up Calzaghe. He wins if he's able to hit Calzaghe south of the border a few times. He wins if someway somehow, Calzaghe throws about 20 punchs a round, instead of his 100 punchs a round. Believe me I'm rooting for B-Hop to win this fight, but there are alot of things that must go right in order for him to do so. At this advanced age, B-Hop must somehow turn back the clock and give the performance of his life. I wish this fight took place years ago, instead of now. I wish B-Hop retired after the Tarver victory, much like Roy Jones should have retired after beating John Ruiz. In this age of boxing politics and large sums of money fighters continue to fight well after their prime in pursuit of the all-mighty dollar. It's very rare that fighters retire on top, and actually care about the legacy that they leave behind. B-Hop good luck, let's hope this is the last time you lace up the gloves!!!

[ИATAS]

This article sucks ass. This writer I assume comes from that other boxing site that took this one over, or what? He should stick to his usual gay ****** stories and leave boxing alone.

[St@rscreem]

Garbage article.

[hardmanbrit]

I wonder what B-hop will say in the post fight pressers. He will certainly look like a fool with anything other than a victory.

Obviously.

I don't think he will beat the "white boy" as he claimed, though.

Big Joe has never, ever been beaten and he is still a World Champion after well over a decade.