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Calzaghe: "Hopkins is worried"
Calzaghe: Hopkins is worried!
While Bernard Hopkins prepares with his 'Dream Team' of trainers
(Freddie Roach, ****m Richardson, John David Jackson and Mackie
Shilstone) for his fight against Joe Calzaghe at the Planet Hollywood
Ring on April 19 in Las Vegas, for Calzaghe it will be the same formula
that has worked for his entire career: just father and son. "Does it
worry me? Of course not," said Calzaghe of Hopkins' team. "It's the
old cliché, it will be just be me and him in the ring on the night and the
fact that he has all these people working with him tells you something:
he's worried about me.....Poppy's employed all these people to try
and figure out how to beat me but if he can't figure it out himself then
he's got a problem. There are no big secrets with me, my fights are all
out there on DVD and he can get hold of them. These are all just mind
games from him.
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When his ten game plans haven't worked and he's forced into going
toe-to-toe in the trenches with me, how is Freddie going to show him
he has to use his heart to win? He can't. That's fighting instinct and I'm
going to take him somewhere he has never been before. I'm telling
Hopkins now, don't worry about my dad pulling me out because that
situation won't come up. Just make sure you know which one of
your 'Dream Team' will have the compassion to throw in the towel when
you are getting seriously busted up. Come fight night it's just you and
me in the ring Bernie, the rest of your team will be safely tucked away
in the corner and then we will see how you cope."
Thursday, March 20 2008
Calzaghe: Hopkins is worried!
While Bernard Hopkins prepares with his 'Dream Team' of trainers
(Freddie Roach, ****m Richardson, John David Jackson and Mackie
Shilstone) for his fight against Joe Calzaghe at the Planet Hollywood
Ring on April 19 in Las Vegas, for Calzaghe it will be the same formula
that has worked for his entire career: just father and son. "Does it
worry me? Of course not," said Calzaghe of Hopkins' team. "It's the
old cliché, it will be just be me and him in the ring on the night and the
fact that he has all these people working with him tells you something:
he's worried about me.....Poppy's employed all these people to try
and figure out how to beat me but if he can't figure it out himself then
he's got a problem. There are no big secrets with me, my fights are all
out there on DVD and he can get hold of them. These are all just mind
games from him.
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When his ten game plans haven't worked and he's forced into going
toe-to-toe in the trenches with me, how is Freddie going to show him
he has to use his heart to win? He can't. That's fighting instinct and I'm
going to take him somewhere he has never been before. I'm telling
Hopkins now, don't worry about my dad pulling me out because that
situation won't come up. Just make sure you know which one of
your 'Dream Team' will have the compassion to throw in the towel when
you are getting seriously busted up. Come fight night it's just you and
me in the ring Bernie, the rest of your team will be safely tucked away
in the corner and then we will see how you cope."
Thursday, March 20 2008
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