The shocking facts of where Bernard Hopkins grew up

[sonofisis]

So GARCIA GREW UP TOUGH BUT ITS IRRELEVANT BUT HOPS DID AND IT IS THE END ALL? wHAT ARE U SAYING?

I don't understand what you attribute to me.

[supremelygifted]

As a Philly native I didn't need to do any demographic research, but I did it anyway.

Germantown is one of the more peaceful and affluent neighborhoods in Philadelphia. Bill Cosby is from there as well, as was Sun Ra. White collar workers outnumber blue collar workers by about 9/2. The median income is over $40,000/ year.

Crime rates are some of the lowest in the city.

I didn't grow up in the roughest "hood" either, but even I grew up in a tougher Philly neighborhood than Hopkins did, with higher crime rates and lower median income. So I can't help but laugh when he refers to his tough background: he's a middle class kid! Sure he went to prison, but anyone can do that.

He's built a false image on being "street." But it's not him. Sorry if you thought he would be too "street" for Calzaghe or anyone else, but you have the wrong guy.



Click this link for details:

http://homes.point2.com/Neighborhood...ographics.aspx

Really, who gives a **** if he grew up in Germantown as you claim or where you live. I saw a documentary on Hopkins and they followed him in his neighborhood and spoke to people that knew him growing up. It didn't look like no middle class neighborhood . Besides who are you to accuse him of building a false image ? Just because you live in one 'hood' doesn't mean you don't hang in another. I grew up many kids that went to school in the suburbs but hung out in the hood in the summer while staying with aunts, uncles or grandparents. Guess where they ended up when they became adults? It's so funny how you get on the internet and blast people and post how fake they are and you really don't know **** about them.

[P4PKING_2008]

...Doesn't get any tougher than that.

It shows how poor they were, dumbass! You don't see no one in the suburbs working two jobs uneducated prick!

[C'MONMANG']

Yes, EXPERIENCE can mold you etc etc...of course...but Hops is trying to say that he will not lose BECAUSE of the experiences he gained due to prison and the ******.... and THAT is nonsense on his part. SHEER NONSENSE. Like isaid to you before...Jermain Taylor is not a ******, gang or prison disciple...yet he beat Hops twice. So Hops EXPERIENCES in life that made him tough etc had ZERO bearing on the outcome. Boxing is BOXING... the art form, the skills, the style and the execution of a plan will overthrow toughness, anger, heart, viciousness almost every time

watch the videos on boxingscene..

he doesnt say " im going to beat Joe cause im from the ****** and went to prison"...



and as for the bolded.. they isnt always the case. im SHOCKED that YOU would say something like that.....

[supremelygifted]

You fool. Hopkins grew up in Raymond Rosen housing projects and moved to Germantown later. Similar to my situation. I grew up in Oakland, CA and we moved when I turned 15 to get away from the bull****. Calm down. I don't see how a keyboard set tripper has any value as far as input anyways.



Not really.

Thank you for setting this jackass straight. He was beginning to sound like a little ***** crying over a paper cut!

[johnm is...]

It shows how poor they were, dumbass! You don't see no on in the suburbs working two jobs uneducated prick!

Pot: "Kettle, you are black"

[ICEMAN JOHN SCULLY]

[QUOTE=c'monmang';3308000]watch the videos on boxingscene..

he doesnt say " im going to beat Joe cause im from the ****** and went to prison"...QUOTE]

I read what he said... and his explanation was that he would win because of his experiences. Here is EXACTLY what he said:

"Whatever Joe Calzaghe throws at me in the ring, it's nothing compared with what I've faced up to and managed to overcome in life. That's why there's only one ending to this story. You know it, I know it and, deep down, so does Joe Calzaghe."

And I am saying that what he overcame in LIFE didnt make him beat RJ or Taylor.

[P4PKING_2008]

Pot: "Kettle, you are black"

Well edited racist!

[C'MONMANG']

Yes, EXPERIENCE can mold you etc etc...of course...but Hops is trying to say that he will not lose BECAUSE of the experiences he gained due to prison and the ******.... and THAT is nonsense on his part. SHEER NONSENSE. Like isaid to you before...Jermain Taylor is not a ******, gang or prison disciple...yet he beat Hops twice. So Hops EXPERIENCES in life that made him tough etc had ZERO bearing on the outcome. Boxing is BOXING... the art form, the skills, the style and the execution of a plan will overthrow toughness, anger, heart, viciousness almost every time

tell that to Ricardo Mayorga and Vernon Forrest.

[C'MONMANG']

[QUOTE=ICEMAN JOHN SCULLY;3308014]

watch the videos on boxingscene..

he doesnt say " im going to beat Joe cause im from the ****** and went to prison"...QUOTE]

I read what he said... and his explanation was that he would win because of his experiences. Here is EXACTLY what he said:

"Whatever Joe Calzaghe throws at me in the ring, it's nothing compared with what I've faced up to and managed to overcome in life. That's why there's only one ending to this story. You know it, I know it and, deep down, so does Joe Calzaghe."

And I am saying that what he overcame in LIFE didnt make him beat RJ or Taylor.

right, nor did he say that about JT or RJ...

you sound bitter scully...