This is the one thing i hate about Hopkins is that he's freaking a greedy *******. This started when Hopkins refuse to do a 60/40 split in Jones favor back in 2002 when Jones was the man.
Who's Adamek? Hopkins is the legend! Besides, this thread is pointless. Adamek will get the money he wants which is not really much compared to what Bernard will get. This is just negotations. It's the way it goes. Adamek will get the most money fighting B-hop and should consider that he will boost his selling power by fighting a legend. TS is a Adamek fan so it is expected. You don't get it.
James Toney is a waste of time for someone with the legendary status of Bernard Hopkins. Besides, he'd beat the **** out of your boy!
You forgot that Adamek is the man at Crusierweight in which he has a right to ask for a million dollars in purse. I don't care if Hopkins is a legend, he still can't draw at all. In boxing this is about who got the drawing power to demand in which that fighter that is a big time draw gets to choose what an opponent gets in purse. Hopkins needs to wake up to reality cause he's becoming like Wright.
hopkins ain't fighting at mw no more and i don't think he wants to so you can forge mw titlists unless any of those are stupid enough to move up. forget pavlik, that won't be an option any time soon. i don't think hopkins is big ppv status on his own, so i really doubt johnson and dawson will bring huge dough. no one in their right mind would pay to see hopkins tarver 2 especially at this point. jones jr needs more credibility to really 'sell' that 15 year later rematch. froch and kessler would probably sell well over seas but is that what hopkins wants to do? all in all, i really don't think hopkins has as many "money" options as you think
with that legendary performance against an undefeatded kelly pavlik he should be a ppv headliner forever.
Bernard Hopkins earned the right to call the shots. Good for him. Boxing's a cruel sport. It's dog-eat-dog and BHop wants a big bite...
Hopkins sounds like he deeply respects Adamek. He may have saw something in the impressive Adamek destruction of Banks that has given him second thoughts and cold toes about fighting the relentless Polish beast who has a vicious killer instinct. A 44 yr old legend does not need to play games with that. Hopkins is a legend no doubt but he kind of jumped the shark as a drawing power.
Hopkins will price himself out of any fight where he feels threatened. He priced himself out of an RJJ rematch turned down 6 million (which would have been a career high for him at the time) and fought Carl Daniels for 1.2 million instead. He priced himself out of a Toney fight. Not surprisingly he had no trouble making whatever concessions were needed to make an easy fight with Oscar where he took less than a third of what Oscar made.
At the time, Calzaghe was a pretty unknown quantity in America, but was ranked one of the best in the world. Hopkins didnt want to risk fighting a great fighter with little prestige to gain. Shame on you for trying to bring up Joe's weakest opponent in an attempt to put him down.