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at how the average Fat Yank on here always talks about how Hopkins's resume is supposedly "stellar" in comparison to Calzaghe's.
Don't get me wrong... Calzaghe's WAS mediocre, and Hopkins's was slightly better... but nowhere NEAR as much as the average Fat Yank likes to make out. While Fat Yanks on here talk about Calzaghe facing nine world champions and say stuff like "who has he eva fort, lamo?" (conveniently forgetting the Lacy hype of 2005) Hopkins gets credit for HOF comp like Antwun Echols, Howard Eastman and Robert Allen.
However, in order to get some insight into the world of this legendary boxer (who would piss on Marvin Hagler, right?) I've been reading his autobiography, where I gleaned some inside stories about his toughest fights:
at how the average Fat Yank on here always talks about how Hopkins's resume is supposedly "stellar" in comparison to Calzaghe's.Don't get me wrong... Calzaghe's WAS mediocre, and Hopkins's was slightly better... but nowhere NEAR as much as the average Fat Yank likes to make out. While Fat Yanks on here talk about Calzaghe facing nine world champions and say stuff like "who has he eva fort, lamo?" (conveniently forgetting the Lacy hype of 2005) Hopkins gets credit for HOF comp like Antwun Echols, Howard Eastman and Robert Allen.
However, in order to get some insight into the world of this legendary boxer (who would piss on Marvin Hagler, right?) I've been reading his autobiography, where I gleaned some inside stories about his toughest fights:
My hardest fight was growing up in the tough streets of Philadelphia, dawg. My neighborhood was so poor and desperate that when I was born the midwife held a gun to my head. Luckily I came out of the womb with a grenade, then butted the Doctor. We were so poor we used to have to bath in barbed wire and acid. Hard times, dawg. At the age of eleven I was caught in the epicentre of a nuclear explosion. Lesser men would have quit then and there. Not Bernard Hopkins.
1988: Got my pro debut. Lost the fucker.
1993: Get the first big name on my HOF resume as I fought Roy Jones. And this was before he was sticking needles in his arm, dawg. Okay, he beat me, it was a piece of piss for him, but a name's a name, right? My legend was well on its way, dawg.
1994: Fought to a draw with the legendary Segundo Mercado. A good fight.
1998: Began the first of a three-part fight series with Robert Allen. Some described the series as a "thrillogy", while others had to keep rubbing their eyes to make sure they weren't seeing Ali-Frazier III. Sadly, some others fell into a coma.
1999: The first of two battles with Antun "the destroyer" Echols.
2001: Fought and beat a Puerto Rican midget for my showcase fight. He was only the size of a small child when I faced him, but he featured highly on the P4P lists so it's all good. The "P4P" lists... a hypothetical list of which boxers would beat each other if they were the same size. But... he wasn't the same size as me... so? Fuck it, don't dwell on it, a win's a win, dawg.
2004: Another defining moment for my legend as I TKO a 5 foot Mexican ****sexual who entered the ring weighing 89lbs.
2005: Back-to-back fights with Jermain Taylor, yet another name on my record. Lost the fuckers.
2006: Slapped around a weight-drained one-hit-wonder crackhead. Is there anything Bernard Hopkins can't achieve? I'm already forty... Archie Moore ain't got **** on me.
2007: Fought Ronald Winky Wright. I put together a gameplan used my mad skillz to beat him... realising he was about two weight divisions smaller than me, I manhandled him and nutted him repeatedly in the face. Old school, dawg, old school.
2008: Beat up a one-dimensional slaphead with the speed of snail. Is there an end to my legend, dawg?
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