Dawson, Hopkins bury the hatchet with class (Article)

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"If the motivation is Bute, then it's something significant where I can prove again that I'm worthy of not only being the king of a division. As fars as tonight being a night where I say that it was great, it was fun, it was hard, it was hard, it was a struggle, I'm done? I'm going to have to look at the whole landscape. I will figure out what I want to do and what I want to do."
Hopkins said he wants to leave the game with "dignity."
"There's a lot of times I could have left. The Tarver fight. The Pascal fight. The Kelly Pavlik fight. The fight tonight. But to make a decision after the fact, I don't feel like I embarrassed myself," said Hopkins.
"I don't feel like I really looked old tonight. You seen a 47-year-old fight his a-- off with a young, strong worthy champion. We'll see what it is. Right now, I feel good."

 

http://ringtv.craveonline.com/blog/172601-lems-latest-dawson-hopkins-bury-the-hatchett-with-class

 

Good stuff, I knew he'd come around eventually and it's good to see him giving Dawson the props he deserves. I think it was just hard for him to be all humble etc. post fight due to the bad blood that had built up between the two and how much pride he has as fighter but it's good he's accepted the result and is moving on.

 

You'll get a lot that will ignore this and continue to call him bitter.

 

Yep nobody wants to read something like this when they're partaking in a circle jerk in other threads.

 

Respect Bhops.. Dam just when you think you can hate him he does this ..:good

 

Bernard deserves respect no doubt, he's one of the greatest and this was a nice ending to a pretty long saga.

 

I think b-hop is a top 25 Atg. Chad did well, about as well as anyone could against B hop really. Hopefully Hopkins can end with a nice W against somebody like cloud or something.

 

Good for both of them, glad they could get to this point.

 

Word, I agree. Good to see.

 

Nice to read this. Gotta be a weird feeling for Hopkins right now. He's lost 4 times since the first Jones fight 19 years ago, but he had a reason to believe he didn't lose a single one of them prior to last night. But for the first time in 19 years, he's clearly been second-best in a fight.

 

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-N7xsHzPVEQ[/ame]

 

probably because he said he got robbed

 

Emotion based post fight pride nonsense I think, didn't help with Naazim Richardson mentioning 'politics' inbetween rounds but it's good to see he's accepted it now.