Did Bernard Hopkins quit against Joe Smith Jr?

I'll say that he cried unfairly. He didn't get pushed, he got punched. He was knocked out of the ring. He didn't look hurt. He probably was. Adrenaline. The old man lost. If you can't let that 50 year old man live then who can?

Yeah and during fight talk he said I'll never let a white boy beat me and lost. That's joe Calzaghe doe. And Pavlik, Tarver, Glen Johnson, Tito and more.

I didn't forget. You sayin he quit?

I should **** you up for saying that stupid ****! Lol

 

You made that pretty clear in the op, OP. Dude, he's 51. Can you imagine the day when your body isn't quite what it was?

 

perhaps he was laughing inside at the symmetrical irony of losing his first and last fights to nobodies.

 

Seen it before with him. When it gets rough he starts looking for the door. Hopkins had everything, a great fighter but a bully with it...He pulls that face that looks like hes crying, to try an convince people !

 

Don't mean its true, hes an actor at times Hopkins ! plus he never made contact with anything but his back and head..Ankle was fine imo

 

He was knocked out cold for a few seconds when he smashed the back of his head on the ground. After getting concussed badly I don't think he wanted to take anymore damage so he invented the ankle injury.

 

You're one sorry poster. I'm mean sorry too, lmao.

 

There was no ankle injury. Hopkins was full of excuses as usual. This is a guy that would routinely fake low blows in fights, quit against Chad Dawson of all people and generally would act like a spastic when the going got tough in there. His interview after the Smith fight was one of the most embarrassing and cringeworthy things I have ever seen. He couldn't even keep all his excuses straight and kept contradicting himself.

 

I don't know about quit but WBC exempted him from VADA, dude hasn't been tested in years.

 

Some personality traits are for a lifetime. One would expect a certain gain in wisdom with the years. But that seems to be an exception more than it is a rule. That's because in humans emotion is the guiding factor and not reason. In short, emotional needs take precedence and human reasoning ability tries to provide reasons for why they should take precedence.


BTW
Accumulation of knowledge doesn't always erase such emotional needs. That's why we have college professors acting like buffoons.

 

Yes

 

It isn't impossible for an ankle to get injured during a fall like that. It could have slammed into the leg of a metal chair.