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by Cliff Rold - So, is this the one?
When Bernard Hopkins won his first major title with a knockout of Segundo Mercado, George Foreman was the Heavyweight champion of the world, Floyd Mayweather was more than a year away from the Olympics, and Pernell Whitaker was the best fighter in the world pound-for-pound.
When Bernard Hopkins became the first man since the late 1980s inception of the WBO to unify all four major sanctioning body belts in a single division with a knockout of Oscar De La Hoya, Roy Jones was between his first two knockout losses, Manny Pacquiao was the lineal Featherweight king, and fans wondered if Lennox Lewis’s retirement would last.
So, is this the one?
Is this Saturday the night Bernard Hopkins gets too old to do it anymore?
He certainly doesn’t think so and, at 49, is set for a unification bout that would get him halfway to collecting four belts in a division again ten years after he did it the first time. No, a win this weekend won’t make him the true champion at Light Heavyweight. He’ll have to beat the man who beat the man who beat him, Adonis Stevenson, to reclaim the lineal crown. [Click Here To Read More]
When Bernard Hopkins won his first major title with a knockout of Segundo Mercado, George Foreman was the Heavyweight champion of the world, Floyd Mayweather was more than a year away from the Olympics, and Pernell Whitaker was the best fighter in the world pound-for-pound.
When Bernard Hopkins became the first man since the late 1980s inception of the WBO to unify all four major sanctioning body belts in a single division with a knockout of Oscar De La Hoya, Roy Jones was between his first two knockout losses, Manny Pacquiao was the lineal Featherweight king, and fans wondered if Lennox Lewis’s retirement would last.
So, is this the one?
Is this Saturday the night Bernard Hopkins gets too old to do it anymore?
He certainly doesn’t think so and, at 49, is set for a unification bout that would get him halfway to collecting four belts in a division again ten years after he did it the first time. No, a win this weekend won’t make him the true champion at Light Heavyweight. He’ll have to beat the man who beat the man who beat him, Adonis Stevenson, to reclaim the lineal crown. [Click Here To Read More]
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