B-Hops...shame shame on this guy....

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  1. IceJohnScully

    IceJohnScully Active Member Full Member

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    A fight nearly broke out between Bernard Hopkins and Joe Calzaghe today during their first face-to-face meeting at the MGM Grand Media Center in Las Vegas. "I would never let a white boy beat me," Hopkins told reporters. "You can print that. I would never lose to a white person."

    WOW, I wonder if Calzaghe said he would "never lose to a black boy," would that be a problem for Bernard?? I would have to assume turning his fight with Calzaghe into a race war is not the way to go. I am surprised and extremely disappointed, shocked, really, that Hopkins would resort to this. That kind of takes away a little bit of the respect I had for him ("fighting scared" against Taylor didnt help, either). By the way, Will Jesse and Al condemn him for this?
     
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  2. Relentless

    Relentless VIP Member banned

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    i was just wondering why the hell was joe wearing his damn pants so low?
     
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  3. Olander

    Olander Active Member Full Member

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    Hopkins showed no class, but I think he was just trying to hype the fight as opposed to being just a racist *****.
     
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  4. Sweet Pea Pacquiao

    Sweet Pea Pacquiao Boxing Addict Full Member

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    I'm a big Hopkins fan, but even I can see that what he did was wrong. Combined with breaking his promise to his dead mother, I just lost some respect for the guy.
     
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  5. Bummy Davis

    Bummy Davis Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    HE HAS NEVER BEATEN A GOOD WHITE FIGHTER come to think of it, it shows he has no class and why did he let Taylor beat him because he was Black
     
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  6. geppy

    geppy Boxing Addict Full Member

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    John, have you ever encountered that as a fighter, being a White American?

    Also, that is James Toney with in your avatar. Is Toney acctually a nice guy? It is almost hard to imagine him not taking trash.
     
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  7. geppy

    geppy Boxing Addict Full Member

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    What is Hopkins still doing fighting years later if it was such a factor in that fight? Sure he was 40, but he was running like a 32 year old, it didnt effect his running ability. The ****er was running and not throwing punches.
     
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  8. China_hand_Joe

    China_hand_Joe Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Calzaghe wouldn't lose to a whhite, giokld, pink, black f=or purple man.
     
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  9. IceJohnScully

    IceJohnScully Active Member Full Member

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    Yeah, to tell u the truth, James was and is one of the coolest people I know in this game..we spent a lot of time together in training camp and he was and is so much different than most would picture him.(Thinking about it, despite his recent missteps, I think Floyd is similar). James and I had a lot of fun in training camps, etc..so much so that I wriote an entire chapter in my book about him called 'Fun and Games with James Lights Out Toney.'

    As far as the racism in boxing, I cant really say I have ever felt it among other fighters. When I was an amateur I was the only white boxer at either 156 or 165 to make the Olympic Trials and I often would be the only, or one of the few, white fighters in the finals of a tournament or in a training camp but I can't say that I ever encountered disrepect or anything because of my color.
     
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  10. The Whaler

    The Whaler My dog be thorough. Full Member

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    younghypnotiq... so it was you all along....
     
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  11. CameronC

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    Bernard just lost another fan.. I was on the fence with this fight, but rooting for my fellow American. That's out the window and I'm in Joe's corner now.

    FU Bernard
     
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  12. Zakman

    Zakman ESB's Chinchecker Full Member

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    It's kind of tasteless and it plays to the worst instincts in people, but I am sure Hopkins' motivation has NOTHING to do with black or white, and everything to do with GREEN. :nod
     
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  13. C Money

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    Its a disgusting comment:good

    Yet its a part of Hopkins fighting nature. He uses psychology to get or set an edge mentally.


    I respect ya HOp's, but a shoud retract that ****.
     
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  14. kg0208

    kg0208 Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    I am thinking the same thing, but he could have said something entirely different.
     
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  15. Jason997

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    He isn't a racist. Hopkins needs to make this sell in the U.S. This kind of statement draws press. Simple as that.
     
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