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After Hopkins beat Pavlik, and the little scuffle ended, Hopkins got emotional in the ring apron looking down at the media and his mouth kinda mumbled like if he wanted to cry when he said "I'm tired of proving myself".
I'm sure everyone saw this.
I was thinking why exactly did he get like that.
1. Out of anger cause of so many people doubting him calling him old and saying he's gonna get KO'ed and he shouldn't have taken that fight, he should have just retired.
2. The kid that he became real close friends with. Don't know if you all have heard about the young fan of Hopkins that was dying from some sort of cancer and his last request was to meet Bernard Hopkins. He ended getting more, Hopkins actually chilled with him and his parents and became friends with him and visited him a bunch of times. To Hopkins credit, he didn't let the media know about this. The kid and his family was ringside in the Calzaghe fight. Before he died he wanted to see Hopkins win one last time, he wanted to see the Pavlik fight and watch Hopkins beat Pavlik. Doctors said that he was fighting to stay alive to watch Hopkins fight one last time and see if his hero wins. Hopkins was well aware about this and I think maybe, just maybe, Hopkins was thinking about the kid(he was friends with him for about 3 years so it's possible) after he beat Pavlik and maybe that's why Hopkins got like that.
The kid died several days after the Pavlik fight. Hopkins was attending the funeral(one of the guys carrying the casket) and the parents put the boxing gloves he beat Pavlik with, inside the kid's casket and they buried him with it.
I'm sure a lot of you have read this story but my point is maybe that's why he got so emotional in the apron cause Hopkins is way too mentally strong to cry for a win where people were doubting him. I think it was for his fan that he knew was dying and knew was watching him.
I'm sure everyone saw this.
I was thinking why exactly did he get like that.
1. Out of anger cause of so many people doubting him calling him old and saying he's gonna get KO'ed and he shouldn't have taken that fight, he should have just retired.
2. The kid that he became real close friends with. Don't know if you all have heard about the young fan of Hopkins that was dying from some sort of cancer and his last request was to meet Bernard Hopkins. He ended getting more, Hopkins actually chilled with him and his parents and became friends with him and visited him a bunch of times. To Hopkins credit, he didn't let the media know about this. The kid and his family was ringside in the Calzaghe fight. Before he died he wanted to see Hopkins win one last time, he wanted to see the Pavlik fight and watch Hopkins beat Pavlik. Doctors said that he was fighting to stay alive to watch Hopkins fight one last time and see if his hero wins. Hopkins was well aware about this and I think maybe, just maybe, Hopkins was thinking about the kid(he was friends with him for about 3 years so it's possible) after he beat Pavlik and maybe that's why Hopkins got like that.
The kid died several days after the Pavlik fight. Hopkins was attending the funeral(one of the guys carrying the casket) and the parents put the boxing gloves he beat Pavlik with, inside the kid's casket and they buried him with it.
I'm sure a lot of you have read this story but my point is maybe that's why he got so emotional in the apron cause Hopkins is way too mentally strong to cry for a win where people were doubting him. I think it was for his fan that he knew was dying and knew was watching him.
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