Comments Thread For: Jackson Respects Hopkins, Still Thinks He 'Fooled' Public

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NEW YORK – John David Jackson doesn’t view Saturday night as an opportunity to avenge his loss to Bernard Hopkins.

The only way Jackson could truly feel as though he exacted revenge against Hopkins for stopping him in the seventh round of their middleweight title fight 17½ years ago would be beating Hopkins in a rematch. That’s obviously impossible for the 51-year-old Jackson, who retired in 1999, but he’ll still get a sense of satisfaction if the fighter he trains, Sergey Kovalev, tops Hopkins (55-6-2, 32 KOs, 2 NC) in their light heavyweight championship unification fight at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City (10:45 p.m. ET; HBO).
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[cantor5150]

Trainers should just stay quite, first he says "when Kovalev wins don't say is cuz Hopkins old" but a week later he himself is saying "Bernard is old and not the same he can't do this or that blah blah" so what side you on is he old or is he not Jackson?

[Clint650]

Trainers should just stay quite, first he says "when Kovalev wins don't say is cuz Hopkins old" but a week later he himself is saying "Bernard is old and not the same he can't do this or that blah blah" so what side you on is he old or is he not Jackson?

Jackson has been saying B-Hop is an old man from the start of training camp. It's Bernard and the fans he convinced that he is a better fighter now than he was 10 years ago. You see, because those losses on his record, that's back when he was still learning a few things. Now he's fully prepared. If he knew then what he knows now he would have beaten Taylor, stopped Calzaghe, and Dawson. But that was before he mastered everything. Sarcasm is strong today.

Kathy Duva is the one who said the confidence of Hopkins and his camp, along with many who think Hopkins can school a young lion, should not fall back on the idea that Kovalev won because Hopkins was too old. We all know that will be the first thing anyone will say when B-Hop looks his age in there.

[I Love Jesus!]

Jackson has been saying B-Hop is an old man from the start of training camp. It's Bernard and the fans he convinced that he is a better fighter now than he was 10 years ago. You see, because those losses on his record, that's back when he was still learning a few things. Now he's fully prepared. If he knew then what he knows now he would have beaten Taylor, stopped Calzaghe, and Dawson. But that was before he mastered everything. Sarcasm is strong today.

Kathy Duva is the one who said the confidence of Hopkins and his camp, along with many who think Hopkins can school a young lion, should not fall back on the idea that Kovalev won because Hopkins was too old. We all know that will be the first thing anyone will say when B-Hop looks his age in there.

Ya but he is old genius, really, really, old!

[Teetotaler]

Lol danm Jackson speaking the truth

[parrish duke]

Jackson has been saying B-Hop is an old man from the start of training camp. It's Bernard and the fans he convinced that he is a better fighter now than he was 10 years ago. You see, because those losses on his record, that's back when he was still learning a few things. Now he's fully prepared. If he knew then what he knows now he would have beaten Taylor, stopped Calzaghe, and Dawson. But that was before he mastered everything. Sarcasm is strong today.

Kathy Duva is the one who said the confidence of Hopkins and his camp, along with many who think Hopkins can school a young lion, should not fall back on the idea that Kovalev won because Hopkins was too old. We all know that will be the first thing anyone will say when B-Hop looks his age in there.

it is what it is buddy, but Hopkins IS 50! that's a fact, that's one of the perks he has going into the fight, like Kovalev's perks are youth and power. spin it how you may but facts are facts..

[FeFist]

it is what it is buddy, but Hopkins IS 50! that's a fact, that's one of the perks he has going into the fight, like Kovalev's perks are youth and power. spin it how you may but facts are facts..

Factually, he is 49.

[Boxing Goat]

Hops is very old but obviously, he's an exception to the golden rule.

[Jim Jeffries]

Factually, he is 49.

49.8137 tomorrow night. Close enough to half a century for government work.

[hitking]

I agree with Jackson to an extent. There's been a lotta smoke-n-mirrors to what Hopkins has done his entire career. He's almost as good an opportunist as he is a fighter. Every move has been planned. And every risk has been carefully calculated. Tarver was a calculated risk. Pavlik was a calculated risk. And Kovalev is just next on the list. There was no pressure on gim to fight Kovalev. There wasn't even much public demand. He obviously has seen something in Kovalev that he thinks he can exploit. I saw it in the Agnew fight. Now the only question is will his 50yr old body enable him to exploit it?