Hopkins Set To Retire After Calzaghe

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Fact: It's You're not Your (thought us yanks were the dumbies?). Your is a form of the possessive case of you used as an attributive adjective. The way you used it, it means My ****ing Tool.

You're is a contraction of you are. This would have been the correct way to call me a ****ing tool.

That's a free lesson. Next time I charge.

Nice comeback.
I am ****ing shell-shocked Arse-munchkin.
Grammar Policing by a 3ft Ginger Turd.

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Light heavyweight champion Bernard Hopkins is once again set to retire. Hopkins vowed to retire in 2006 after winning a lopsided decision over Antonio Tarver. He quickly came out of retirement in 2007 to win a lackluster decision over Winky Wright. [details]

Mark "the ***" Vester doctored this article up big time to make Hopkins look bad. Love how he throws that little negative shot at the Winky Wright fight. What a steaming piece of **** this guy is. I would love to stomp on his children's testicles.

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No one knows how good Calzaghe is because he is undefeated and hasn't fought anyone. Theres really nothing special about Calzaghe except that zero on his record. But like Hatton.. we know how a great fighter can make that zero look like hes never fought a great fighter. Calzaghe makes a lot of mistakes.. for example he squares up and drops his head alot. Which is why Kessler was killing him with the counter uppercut... something other fighters werent skilled enough to do. Hopkins is much more skilled and experienced than Kessler. Hopkins will not only capitalize on this flaw but all of Calzaghes flaws. He beat Tarver because he noticedTarver uses his back leg as his guide.. he beat Wright because he noticed Wright had balance problems. In his own words Calzaghe wins on speed and punch rate but thats without a fighter capitalizing on all his mistakes like Hopkins will. Thats why Hopkins says he will make Calzaghe look amateurish because he will capitalize on his flaws and expose him. Calzaghe was taught by an amateur trainer. On fight night you will see what happens when a fighters flaws get exposed.

This is the same guy who was beat twice by Jermain Taylor and almost knocked through the ropes by Mercado? Just checking.

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Glass jaw? I think that is a little bit over-exagerated. The punches that KO'd Jones would probably buckle the strongest chinned light-heavyweight. Nobody in the division would have stood against the Tarver left hook in Jones-Tarver II. The Johnson punch was right on the back of the ear and would have hurt anyone as well. The only one that could be seen as a weaker punch that Jones has been hurt by was the short right hand that Tarver hit Jones with in the 3rd fight. So dont come out hard like that. Hopkins is nowhere near the athlete that Roy is even today and would never KO him. He is not fast or skilled enough and he knows that. Otherwise why not fight Jones again after all this time of the fans wanting it?

This coming from a guy who likes to look at Jones in his underwear?

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This is the same guy who was beat twice by Jermain Taylor and almost knocked through the ropes by Mercado? Just checking.

wow, you're really reaching if you bring up Mercado (who wasn't a bad fighter at the time either).

Have you seen that fight btw? Very entertaining. That fight happened in Ecuador, where Hopkins probably didn't adjust to the elevation well which would explain why he KO'd Mercado so quick in the rematch months later. The first fight was a draw, but I think most people thought Hopkins won (including the commentators) but that environment was hostile as ****, crowd was crazy, probably would have lynched them if they gave bhop the win. That says a lot about the fight if bhop got knocked down twice and still should have won on points. Regardless though, everyone has been knocked down at least once in their careers. Getting back up and keep fighting is another thing...

[Boxinguru]

I hope so! I thought he should have "hung 'em up" after the Tarver victory...Win, Lose, or Draw Hopkins' legacy is SEALED & he has nothing else to prove to the boxing world!

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5 years ago IGNORANT YANKS like yourself didn't know who Calzaghe was as you only suck the balls of your hometown fighters and hype them up beyond belief.
Hopkins would have been KNOCKED out when Joes hands weren't so brittle.
Another FACT you ignore that Joe had serious Power.

HA,HA,HA Your the biggest Calzaghe pickle smooching **** sucker on the planet. You eat, sleep, and breath the thought of Calzaghes pud. You and the rest of the moron fans who fly across the country to watch him fight or fill up huge arenas to watch him fight nobodies. Most of the Calzaghe fans, including yourself don't even like boxing, You just follow Joe Calzaghe because you think he's beautiful. You run around the internet like a bunch of little ****'s defending him against every little comment like good little girlfriends and groupies.

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It is a FACT that he had KO power and his record says it.

Actually his record doesn't state it you *****. Joe's only had 2 legitimate knockouts against nobodies. The rest where nothing but slap flurries and early stoppages. Hopkins has had 7 real Knockouts against some guys that could actually fight.

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Hope he can go out on top, that would be the perfect way to end a great career

He willlose man. The man is 43 year old!

[edgarg]

jones-hopkins 2 would be a superfight. id like to see it

NO FIGHT involving Hopkins is automatically a "SUPERFIGHT". The "SUPER" depends on his opponent. AND...that's only in the drawing power. As for the fight itself, and PARTICULARLY at this late stage in Hopkins' career, it is far more likely to be the usual damp squib, a splutter and fizz here and there....with everyone waiting for something to happen........until the final bell.

The credulity of the average boxing fan continues to amaze me, daily.

This annoucement of Hopkins, seems to ME to be a carefully crafted concoction by a speech-writer, who has never heard Hopkins in his "natural spate". Yes I mean "spate" (one could say "state of spate") Hopkins has never spoken in such a refined, measured way in his life, and wouldn't know how. Not his fault.

As for his "final" retirement, I seem to recall that originally he'd made a SACRED PROMISE to his mother that he'd "retire by the age of 40" and after her desease, vowed that it was even MORE sacred.

(Then.....a good money fight came up (maybe DeLaHoya??) his "agonizing" over it (would he.......or wouldn't he?.....) made great PR for a few months, until perhaps, he'd had a few words with his mother (via planchette) and she'd reportedly said;

"If it means money,
Go for it Honey".

It did mean money, so he went for it. Then supposedly he retired again, for good this time. Then something else came up.........so he had another word with his mother, which satisfied him, and he made more money. He even did this again.....Of these fights, not one caused even a ripple of excitement, and most of the movement came from polite spectators raising their hands to their mouths to yawn.

THIS TIME, against Calzaghe, he seems to realise that his saleability has just about worn out, and even his credulous fans are beginning to stir uneasily, so he's been upping the rhetoric even beyond his usual coarse limits, to boost interest. I don't think that he and Calzaghe dislike one another at all. He's working for the promotion. And as I said somewhere, it's not beyond reason to see Calzaghe, down the road, as "President Golden Boy Britain", and both he an Hopkins sitting amicably together planning the next "big show".

We should ALL give thanks- THIS is his final performance........The fat lady is commencing her song.

And LONG overdue, says I.....Good luck to her.