Washed up Roy, it dont matter.....Its a personal fight, Bernard wants Roy

[Olympia77]

For over a decade Roy Jones has been lingering in the mind of Bernard Hopkins despite all his achievements.
Jones has always been a step ahead of Bernard, always seemed to have the last word because he won their only encounter. Hopkins was always going to be Roy's ***** no matter what happened.
So really when Hopkins says that he wont fight Roy because hes only a shell of himself hes lieing.

It dont matter how many times Roy has lost, whether he's washed up. It dont matter that Bernard beat Roy's conquerors.
This is not a money fight anymore. Bernard wants Roy.

[NeXt In Line]

I'm a fan of both guys, but at this point at least for Bernard, the fight makes NO sense on a legacy level. Roy is far past his best, even though he's looked impressive in his last outing, it was against Jeff Lacy. Lacy was as overrated as one can come before his loss to Joe when most people, myself included, believed the hype and thought he would demolish Calzaghe. After that loss, Jeff was never the same, he's nothing but a fraction of the fighter everyone thought he used to be.

Bernard has fought much more steadily on a higher level of competition in the past few years, schooling the undisputed Middleweight champion who many picked to KO him due to his age. He proved the critics wrong, as he has so many other times, and though a fight with Roy is personal, I agree, it makes no sense in regards to his legacy at this point.

For Roy, this fight could be huge for his legacy. Hopkins would be the biggest name opponent he's FOUGHT, let alone beaten in the past 6 years or so, since his fight with Ruiz who will not go down in history as a greater fighter than Bernard, but was seen as a legitimate challenge due to the fact that he was a Heavyweight.

The way I see it, Bernard has very VERY little to gain from a win, Roy has a LOT to gain from a win, and if Bernard really wants to focus only on legacy, he needs to either take on: Dawson, the young gun at 175 should he get past Glen Johnson, or Adamek, who is recognized as the lineal champion at Cruiserweight, which would make Hopkins a lineal champion in THREE weight classes: Middleweight, Light Heavyweight and Cruiserweight.