BHOP slurring his speech a little bit

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  1. HellSpawn86

    HellSpawn86 "My heart goes out to you!" Full Member

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    So I haven't really watched or listened to BHOP talk for a while, but I realized he is actually a little punch drunk.

    BHOP recent interview for Kovalev fight
    http://espn.go.com/boxing/

    BHOP interview in 2004
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jaBaDzHcHg

    I remember he used to be pretty smooth with his words. BHOP definitely still has his faculties and knows what he is doing. I'm sure he'd rather go out a warrior. I don't BHOP knows anything other than boxing.
     
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  2. clark

    clark Well-Known Member Full Member

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    People don't realize it's an accumulation of punches and sometimes a lack of desire that end the fighters career, not the age.
     
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  3. HellSpawn86

    HellSpawn86 "My heart goes out to you!" Full Member

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    I think punches and desire are definitely higher on the list. I wonder how many punches Hopkins has taken in comparison to other greats. There is probably an average number before someone starts slipping.
     
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  4. Raider Rudy

    Raider Rudy Active Member Full Member

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    He has always sounded like a ******, but now it is slower.
     
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  5. Nonito Smoak

    Nonito Smoak Ioka>Lomo, sorry my dudes Full Member

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    I have heard in some of the very recent interviews he is slurring more than just from a few years ago. There was a couple times where he started slurring bad and then just started a new conversation/point entirely.

    Tough to say, though. Most boxers start to sound funny when they hit their late 30's, but then again, some real life non-boxing average joes change their tone and talk differently for the worse over time as well.
     
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  6. Farmboxer

    Farmboxer VIP Member Full Member

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    After Kovalev lands a punch on Hopkins, he will be lucky to be able to talk at all................Kovalev does not plan to follow Hopkins around the ring, simply stand in from of him, but instead break his arms, break him down. Hell, Hopkins could not handle Dawson..................
     
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  7. Tancred

    Tancred Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Slurring is to be expected
     
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  8. CST80

    CST80 De Omnibus Dubitandum Staff Member

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    When you spend your whole life being tagged in the left frontal lobe, which happens to control speech like Tancred said its to be expected.
     
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  9. vast

    vast Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    in five years he'll sound like Toney. Only so much the brain can take.
     
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  10. rayrobinson

    rayrobinson Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    He is fine, the man has taken about 20 flush punches in his entire career.
     
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  11. cereal monotony

    cereal monotony Boxing Addict banned Full Member

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    didn't hear any slurring whatsoever....a little bit of wishful thinking on your part maybe?
     
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  12. ForemanJab

    ForemanJab Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    There is no denying it. Hopkins' speech pattern is clearly slowing down and he's having an increasing harder time putting words together(not that he was ever good at it in the first place). It's not just the flush shot that do the damage, it's the continual barrage of small, sub concussive punches over the course of a long career that lead to Dementia Pugilistica. Hell look how punch drunk Pernel Whitaker is nowadays and that was a guy that rarely ever got hit flush.
     
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  13. fmacca

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    You are KIDDING YOURSELF. Listen carefully. This man could start a new language the way he is talking now. He has sustained chronic trauma and it is showing in the slower cadence, hesitation and slight stutter he has developed.
     
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  14. RememberingC.S.

    RememberingC.S. Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Doesn't sound bad for me. He says high amount of bullshits like usual.
     
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  15. KO-KING

    KO-KING Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    He has slowed a bit, but **** so has a guy like Khan
     
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