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Karo Murat, a fight that not a single person is interested in.
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Easy/safe road? You're fighting Karo Murat dude
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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.Comment
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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...Comment
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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.Last edited by ИATAS; 08-22-2013, 12:05 PM.Comment
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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...Comment
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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.Comment
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Legendary........Comment
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"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.
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
Check the link above.
A reasonable hater. Props.Comment
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