Guess who ratted on B-Hops friendship with the referee?

[Scott9945]

yea, but you're just reporting d-hops story. i bet it was more than a few days late, and who knows what else in their history went into that fued... **** d-hop. forbes was robbed against him anyway and GBP is probably the only reason he got that bull**** decision in the first place....

You're probably right (and totally right in your last sentence). I'm just glad that Hopkins isn't going to get a handpicked ref to allow him to make the fight ugly. As a person, BH has done some pretty ****ty things though. Ask Lou DiBella about the comment he made about his dead brother.

[rizkybizness]

You're probably right (and totally right in your last sentence). I'm just glad that Hopkins isn't going to get a handpicked ref to allow him to make the fight ugly. As a person, BH has done some pretty ****ty things though. Ask Lou DiBella about the comment he made about his dead brother.

Can I just ask you what he said about his dead brother?

[fabzmm]

i willnot live a full life without seeing hopkins ktfo...actually i want pavlik to just beat the **** out of him for 12 rounds, let him get him and just beat him silly. every fgight hopkins complains about the refs.

[Komander]

Two names Steve Smoger or Kenny Bayless.

Two of the best in the biz.

[STEELHEAD]

according to boxrec benjy esteves is reffing.
notable fights he's done is the marg/clottey, cotto/mosley and pbf/corley.
been around decade and a half.


http://www.boxrec.com/list_bouts.php...64&cat=referee

[Scott9945]

Can I just ask you what he said about his dead brother?

Instead of paraphrasing, I'll paste a small part of a very long article written before the Hopkins-Taylor fight by Thomas Hauser:

But instead of moving to a staredown with Jermain, Bernard approached DiBella. Hopkins knows how to place his punches in and out of the ring. In both venues, he has been known to go low. Twelve years ago, after being disabled in a skiing accident, DiBella's brother had committed suicide. DiBella had shared that information with Hopkins in earlier years when the fighter and promoter had been friends. Now --

"You're going to kill yourself tomorrow night," DiBella says Hopkins told him. "It's the end of your life tomorrow night. You know about people killing themselves. You'll slit your throat or take pills and not wake up on Sunday morning."

You think I'd be sad to see that ******* get KO'd?

[Austin Drage]

Bernard Hopkins is a scumbag. Love him as a fighter but as a person he is disgusting.

He has that ****** mentality. His nephew is late with the rent so he probably went and bitchslapped him about shouting "where ma' money fool".

[shadeyfizzle]

They should have placed Lawrence Cole as the ref. Nothing puts a dirty fighter in his place like a dirty ref with money riding on the fight

[roundingace]

The ref will be irrelevant. KO from Pavlik will retire the old bastard.

[ACHlLLES]

hopkins been in this bizness for almost 20 yrs if not more. He knows all the refs!!! So, it doesn't matter who they get to replace em unless its a young new ref.