This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected Hopkins: "Beating Trinidad changed my life 100%. He was undefeated and favored 6-1. He was the biggest name in boxing at the time and the win defined my career. Most people thought I had no chance, but I did what I said I'd do. Time flies, though. The best way to know that is to look at my daughter who was a year old then and is now eleven. Maybe what most people still remember is the flag incident, but after 9/11, one of boxing's biggest events took place in front of 20,000 who witnessed one of boxing's most shocking upsets. It defined my career. I went from being a titleholder to being recognized as a real champion. People who got upset about the flag incident need to understand that it was all part of a marketing ploy. In fact, I saw Tito about two years ago. We joked around, took some pictures and we had a great time. In fact, it shocked me at first to see how safe it is when I go to Puerto Rico with my family for vacation." Trinidad: "My wife found out that I had an affair and a baby out of wedlock through the press and TV, not through me. I was not able to tell her in person. It was a difficult moment. I left for the US to fight Hopkins with that problem in mind. In several occassions, my doctor prescribed me sleeping pills, as I spent many nights without being able to sleep. Had I confronted that situation at the right time, I would have been more relaxed in NY and who knows how things would have gone. Once the fight was moved to the 29th after the attacks, I thought about postponing the fight, but I trusted my father. I didn't have to do everything he said, but I trusted him 100% on those matters. They had decided that the fight would go on on the 29th, and I just said yes. But those two weeks off killed me. I lost my peak. I was in perfect shape for the 15th and that night I would have been myself. Sincerely, there is no way I would have lost against Hopkins on the 15th. I don't think I let people down with my loss. Yes, many people wanted me to beat him to shut him up, to make him pay for throwing down our flag, but I wasn't able to. Hopkins never wanted a rematch. Why? Only he knows, but I would have knocked his head off in a rematch. That night, it wasn't so much that Hopkins looked good, but that I did not performed as I should have. I was not my usual self in the ring that night." From primerahora.com
Yeah pretty ordinary, but hey, he's a boxer. It was a great Middleweight v a great Welter that night.
