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By Lyle Fitzsimmons - Leave it to Bernard Hopkins.
Though you’d think a 48-year-old challenging a 31-year-old to a fight would want all the new-school training gimmicks he could find, the career contrarian from Philadelphia has a different plan.
And its genesis, you ask?
Why a Southeast Pennsylvania retirement home, of course.
There, while paying a visit to former Philly-based light heavyweight champion Harold Johnson – who himself fought until age 42 – Hopkins stumbled upon a regimen that’s already served him well as he’s approached the foothills of yet another would-be 175-pound mountain climb.
Hopkins will meet unbeaten IBF title-holder Tavoris Cloud on March 9 in Brooklyn, N.Y.
“There were 13 or 15 older people in chairs sitting around a table with a therapist,” Hopkins said, “and they were working on their reflexes by playing a game with a tennis ball. They had to juggle the ball without looking at their hands, and they couldn’t let the ball fall to the floor. [Click Here To Read More]
Though you’d think a 48-year-old challenging a 31-year-old to a fight would want all the new-school training gimmicks he could find, the career contrarian from Philadelphia has a different plan.
And its genesis, you ask?
Why a Southeast Pennsylvania retirement home, of course.
There, while paying a visit to former Philly-based light heavyweight champion Harold Johnson – who himself fought until age 42 – Hopkins stumbled upon a regimen that’s already served him well as he’s approached the foothills of yet another would-be 175-pound mountain climb.
Hopkins will meet unbeaten IBF title-holder Tavoris Cloud on March 9 in Brooklyn, N.Y.
“There were 13 or 15 older people in chairs sitting around a table with a therapist,” Hopkins said, “and they were working on their reflexes by playing a game with a tennis ball. They had to juggle the ball without looking at their hands, and they couldn’t let the ball fall to the floor. [Click Here To Read More]
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