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Hopkins and Trinidad delivered when New York needed it most.
On July 9, 2001, Bernard Hopkins did his best to get inside Felix Trinidad's head, when he grabbed a miniature Puerto Rican flag out of his foe's hand and tossed it to the ground at a press conference in New York's Bryant Park.
On July 11, Hopkins went a step further, and tossed another flag to the floor in front of Trinidad.
In Puerto Rico.
In front of 10,000 rabid Trinidad acolytes at a press conference.
On Sept. 15, Trinidad, the WBA middleweight champion and the man considered by some as the best active pound-for-pound fighter, and Hopkins, the IBF and WBC middleweight titlist, were scheduled to hash it out at Madison Square Garden in New York.
Tensions, to put it mildly, were running high. Garden officials were beefing up security to an unprecedented level to ward off a riot.
On Sept. 11, everything changed. More...
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