Comments Thread For: Hopkins Explodes on Golden Boy, Critics: "I Won't Retire"

[gibo]

He didn't decline Adamek, Adamek outpriced himself asking for more money unstead of saying, "**** it, he is a top P4P fighter, i will beat him and then make more money".

And Dawson, well that one he could've taken but he made a reasonable explanation why he didn't, saying that Dawson brings nothing to the table financially as a draw/ticket-seller, or legacy wise, so why try beating a guy who could be the future once the old-timers are retired for good.

In conclusion, Hopkins at his age is entitled to cherry-pick, he beat a young guy in Pavlik and that's enough. Still doesn't mean he is gonna fight bums because as he put it, he needs something that motivates him to keep going so whoever it is, is who it is.

hobkins ain't entitled to ****. cause he ain't done ****. wins against smaller TITO and hoja are his claim to fame... 20 title defences? Too many repeat matches against class "C" fighters. Lost to sorry ass weak chin Jermain Taylor TWICE!! LOST to "white boy" CALZAGHE. CRIED FOUL and threw himself on the canvas 3 TIMES trying to win by DQ against RJJ. (who had just been KO'D in the first round in his last fight) The fraud has been exposed. His own BOSS is now trying to get rid of him!!!!!!

[Dorian]

Fighters like Hopkins, Holyfield, Jones, Botha all these guys need to retire for the sake of the sport..

[paulf]

Youre old, boring, no one likes you, and you wont fight the real tough opposition. You dont have the fans or name value to fill venues fighting light competition.

Its like Teddy said the other night, we need to give cat scans to the promoters putting these bull**** cards together.

Letting Bernard fight untelevised at a Casino in Arkansas sounds like a plan to me.

[jetgeomcx]

He should sign with Top Rank just for the comic value and irony alone.

yeah, why nutz!?!
it would be like a kick in schaefer's teeth!!

seriously bhop should retire.
but schaefer should not jump the gun on him....
it's bhop's decision to make

[check hook]

Fighters like Hopkins, Holyfield, Jones, Botha all these guys need to retire for the sake of the sport..

They need to be forcibly retired if need be.....Hopkins is irrelevant as of last week.

[RockyB]

How about you learn how to fight again and then we can talk. No more 4 punches per round and holding and hitting, headbutting, etc.

Seriously I CANNOT STAND to watch this dude fight.

THIS! exactly my thoughts!

[jetgeomcx]

Fighters like Hopkins, Holyfield, Jones, Botha all these guys need to retire for the sake of the sport..

promoters are to blame for giving these "nags" (old horses) a fyt!!
and the sponsors too......

[check hook]

i think bhop shouldve retired after the tarver fight, but not because he was done or washed up , but because his legacy is rock solid in boxing as one of the greatest of all time, not just this era. but he continued and shocked everyone destroying pavlik, and he avenged his roy jones defeat, which he really wanted badly.

to me, richard schaffer could care less about bhop's health, he made those comments because of the low number of fans that showed up, and the weak interest level of the event, he was basically saying "bernard didnt make us enough money, he should retire" thats what hes tryna say, but hes tryna sound sentimental to bhop's health, hes being a snake about it and bhop has every right to be upset.

i think bhop should retire, but like i said, only because hes already an all time great. but if he chooses to continue on, i would like him to fight chad dawson, and upset yet another young lion in the game, but even if he beats dawson, the haters will keep attacking him.

hopkins is easily the number 2 p4p fighter in the world behind manny. they put floyd at number 2 because of his popularity.

yall stop hating on bhop and appreciate him instead, he is one in a million, boxers like him dont come everyday. those who call him boring show just how little they know about boxing.

you are delirious..........Dawson would smoke Hopkins at this stage......