Comments Thread For: Analyzing Bernard Hopkins' Comments on Manny Pacquiao

[Pullcounter]

hopkins is trying to get shane the fight. he already know wifebeater won't fight and bradley/alexander can't draw the same kind of crowd mosley does.

if mosley fights pac, then his trainer ****m gets paid.

thats what it's really about.

[megas30]

Sugar Q is back! I agree race does have a lot to do with everything but I disagree with your assessment of blacks sticking with blacks. I'm black and white for one thing, another thing is I'm a true boxing fan. I picked Corrales over Floyd, I'm picking Martinez over Williams, etc. So I'm a fight fan not a racially biased fan.

Corrales is black!

[Ray*]

This writer doesn't make any sense. He says Hopkins ducked Chad Dawson and and fought someone with a less difficult style. How is that so, when Pascal beat Chad Dawson and schooled his ass with an injured shoulder? I mean I won't argue that maybe Hopkins should've fought Dawson. But this writer doesn't make sense when he says Dawson has a more difficult style than Pascal.

Am glad you arent, This is the different between some fans, they would actually argue and back Bhop for not fighting Dawson when he had the time and space to do so.

[Sugar Q]

ITS SO OFFENSIVE WHEN BLACK PEOPLE LOVE THEMSELFS ANYONE ELSE EVER NOTICE THAT??? THE ONLY TIME ANY BLACK ATHLETE IS ACCEPTED IS WHEN HES A GOOD OL CHIOR BOY AND DOESNT TALK BACK... ANYHOW IT IS WHAT IT IS THIS COUNTRY WAS BUILT ON RACE, RACE WILL ALWAYS BE AN ISSUE AND PEOPLE WILL ALWAYS BE RACIST ITS BEEN THAT WAY FOREVER ITS JUST HOW IT IS AND ITS OKAY AS LONG AS NOBODY IS HARMED PHYSICALLY! BHOP JUST HAD AN OPINION WHY IS THERE SUCH A PROBLEM????

RACE= GENE
IST= SOMETHING U ADVOCATE FOR, OR HOLD IN HIGH REGUARDS OVER OTHERS, SOMTHING UR ABOUT

I THINK THE WORD HAS BEEN MIS USED AND MADE TO SEEM NEGATIVE IT JUST MEANS U THINK UR PARTICULAR RACE IS BETTER THAN OTHERS OR U STAND UP 4 THEM!... WE ALL HAVE IT IN US LETS BE HONEST! BUT AS LONG AS WHEN I SEE A PERSON OF ANOTHER RACE I HAVE RESPECT IT SHOULD ALL BE OKAY! imjustsayin

ANY HOW... I HEARD FLOYD AND PAC ARE IN TALKS OF TRYING TO WORK OUT A FIGHT... WASSUP

Well it's Biblical "when truth and persecution arises immediately are they offended". People get offended by the truth. They know BHop is right and they know America has racial issues and lots of bandwagon riders worldwide. What dude is really saying is "I'm an American and before I root for an African American I will root for a foreigner. Then he has the audacity to speak as if he were representing America. The bottom line is "why won't Pac submit to full testing and what kinda person will back this nonsense"

[imisupu]

The fact still remains that in 57 pro fights Manny has never faced an African American that's a fact this guy refused to point out in his article. I don't understand how in boxing a sport loaded with African American's this has never happened. I don't care if it's P-Will or Shane Manny needs to fight one of them and his fans quit making excuses. we all agree Floyd isn't budging and if you keep using that excuse about Shane being to old then I will say the oldman dominated Margs but you gave him a shot, he REALLY didn't deserve so shut and get in the ring with a BLACK MAN!!!

[Sugar Q]

Corrales is black!

Corrales is hispanic. How many black men have the name Diego Corrales? His stepdad to my knowledge is black but he's hispanic. Will you feel better to know that I'm a HUGE Arguello, Duran, Sanchez, Rosario, Tito, Benitez, Pedroza, Mancini, Gomez, Camacho, Cycz, etc fan.

[Brutal Honesty]

its reverse racism on hopkins part. now, blacks want affirmative action in sports as if they are being excluded or something. quite laughable really. it actually has started already with nfl teams required to interview black coaches before making a hire.

[Sugar Q]

I wouldn't give a damn if Floyd was blue, he's a great fighter. Would I pick him over Robinson, Leonard or Hearns? Hell no but against the fighters fighting now he's the best hands down.

[Gutz]

Only in America my dude can a man be charged with a felony for taking back a phone he bought. No pics, no evidence, just her saying he hit me. Hopefully you and your spouse never argue, oh my bad, nobody would care if it were you but when your loaded look out. Hopefully one day your not put in the same situation.

what a Floyd **** sucker...


Dude beat a women and threaten his kids. He also a racist prick and the biggest ducker in the history of boxing..



yet you still ride his **** like a 2 dollar whore...

[D-Uneek]

I've been saying what Hopkins said for YEARS about Pacman. He hasn't faced a slick, elite African-American boxer in forever and that will be his undoing when he finally does. I'm not talking Zab Judah either. I'm talking a Mayweather, a Berto, or a Paul Williams. Shane can beat him too if he implores the B-Hop style he used against Margarito along with his speed and power. These days whenever a black person says anything regarding race, whites try to spin it as paranoia or 'reverse racism'. Trying to rationalize what Hopkins said when you're blinded by being offended won't help you see the truth. Look at it this way, all fighters have dodged a certain type of boxer for some reason or another. I'm not going to sit here and say Mayweather hasn't dodged aggressive, relentless destroyers in their prime because those make for tough fights. Most of them happened to be of Latino descent. People just never thought of it in that sense, that Latino fighters traditionally are come forward, hard punching destroyers with a few exceptions in a guy like Marquez, Cotto, or Martinez. Pac IS avoiding slick boxers. They try to hide behind followings and marketability, but who in the hell knew Josh Clottey? Arum knows that Pac can fill a stadium singing Karaoke by himself so to say that he can't fill it with him fighting Berto, Shane, or Tim Bradley is B.S. Pac is dodging the slick counter punchers because as Marquez has shown us, they give him problems.