Comments Thread For: Hopkins: Cong**** Kovalev, You Took The Easy/Safe Road

[Mr Ehrmantraut]

Karo Murat, a fight that not a single person is interested in.

[King_]

Karo Murat, a fight that not a single person is interested in.

Apparently Karo Murat is more known then Sergey Kovalev. According to Showtime/GBP

[El Angel]

Easy/safe road? You're fighting Karo Murat dude

[Dirk Diggler UK]

Hopkins is full of **** as usual.

He showed no real interest in the Kovalev fight until after Cleverly-Kovalev was signed and now he'll continue to talk **** because Kovalev is on HBO so the fight is unlikely to be made any time soon.

Cleverly agreed to fight Hopkins in New York but Bernard chose the more one dimensional, tailor-made Cloud who'd just been schooled by Campillo.

[MDPopescu]

B-Hop has no intention in fighting Kovalev...
B-Hop is a "chess player" -- as he said himself when when he managed to get rid of mando Kovalev and reinstate Murat as mando...

B-Hop should receive a big statue in Philly and just retire...

[ИATAS]

Hopkins is full of **** as usual.

He showed no real interest in the Kovalev fight until after Cleverly-Kovalev was signed and now he'll continue to talk **** because Kovalev is on HBO so the fight is unlikely to be made any time soon.

Cleverly agreed to fight Hopkins in New York but Bernard chose the more one dimensional, tailor-made Cloud who'd just been schooled by Campillo.

Woah let's slow down a bit.

Murat was Hopkins mandatory. He then had VISA issues and Kovalev was made the mandatory. Hopkins said he would have no problem fighting him. This would have gone to a purse bid and likely a bit of a process. Meanwhile Cleverly had a date, venue, and contract ready and sent to Kovalev. Duva, had two options - accept the Cleverly offer which was already done (just sign the dotted line) or go through the process of a purse bid etc with Golden Boy. Either way was a good decision but Duva took the easiest most convenient option. This all happened very fast mind you, just a few days.

Meanwhile Murat cleared his visa problems and after Kovalev accepted Clev, the IBF reinstated Murat as Hopkins mandatory.

As for Hopkins vs Cleverly, bhop was never scared of him to think otherwise is ******ed. Hopkins couldn't go wrong with either Cloud or Cleverly for a title shot.

[MDPopescu]

Woah let's slow down a bit.

Murat was Hopkins mandatory. He then had VISA issues and Kovalev was made the mandatory. Hopkins said he would have no problem fighting him. This would have gone to a purse bid and likely a bit of a process. Meanwhile Cleverly had a date, venue, and contract ready and sent to Kovalev. Duva, had two options - accept the Cleverly offer which was already done (just sign the dotted line) or go through the process of a purse bid etc with Golden Boy. Either way was a good decision but Duva took the easiest most convenient option. This all happened very fast mind you, just a few days.

Meanwhile Murat cleared his visa problems and after Kovalev accepted Clev, the IBF reinstated Murat as Hopkins mandatory.

Yes. It happened exactly as you wrote above... With B-Hop famous quote: "Bring on Frankenstein!"...
Later, Duva said she opted for Clev because she was afraid that B-Hop would ask for a dispensation and fight Adonis...
Anyway, when B-Hop heard that Kovalev signed with Clev he said he was playing chess...

[New England]

It's clear that Kovalev's promoter wanted to get a HBO contract so they picked Cleverly instead of Hopkins because of the HBO/GB feud. Hopkins is the one who was avoided for business reasons.

main events would fight on whichever network if they got a chance to let kovalev pound on bernard hopkins 48 year old body for good money. they wouldn't want to involve themselves with showtime if hopkins were not willing to fight.

unless you've got that in writing from multiple airtight sources i'll have a hard time believing it.

if hopkins were open to the idea of fighting him he wouldn't be talking him down like this. it's quite clear that it's a fight they do not want.

kovalev is going to be in a rough spot. he's with main events. nobody is going to want to put one of their fighters in with him. look at where frank warren is now. he put cleverly in with kovalev and has very little to show for it.

[-PBP-]

Legendary........

[Light_Speed]

Kovalev's team openly discussed all this at the time. http://www.boxingscene.com/cleverly-...plained--66863

"If we would have pursued that fight [with Hopkins] and passed on this, then Cleverly would have fought Hopkins. Hopkins would have vacated his title and then Sergey would have fought for a vacant title."

I don't know what made Duva say that because Hopkins has never vacated a title (to my knowledge). Sure, GB wasn't keen on making the fight but utlimately a man of Hopkins stature doesn't let his promoter dictate anything to him.

This is just bull**** from B-hop..
When Murat had trouble getting to america because of visa troubles.
Kovalev vs white winner would be the mandatory. kovalev destroys white and becomes mandatory, suddenly hopkins wasn't so keen to pay his respect to his belt and his mandatory obligations.

No YOUR post is just bull****. What do you mean he wasn't keen to honor his mandatory obligation? He said he was willing to fight Kovalev two days before Kovalev/Cleverly was signed : https://twitter.com/THEREALBHOP/stat...66108996718593

The best time to fight would have been when Murat was having problems, then Hops didn't want anything to do with Kov.

Check the link above.

As much as I hate bhop, no one can argue this cuz the dude was his mandatory n chose to fight someone else. Smh

A reasonable hater. Props.