Sick of Hopkins' fans ignorance.

A teleconference was set up in my office in New York for July 30th, 2002, and on the call was myself, Don King who was in the room, Frank ****** and Bernard Hopkins' lawyer, Arnold Joseph. Along with Arnold was a woman named Linda Carter, who was there on behalf of Bernard. We asked Arnold if Bernard wanted to fight Joe Calzaghe and we asked him how much money would he want if he did. The response we got was $3million and the fight would have to take place in the United States. After a little scratching of the head, we said 'Okay, done.' Frank ****** agreed on the spot, Don King agreed and we agreed so as far as we were concerned all parties were singing off the one hymm sheet. Arnold excused himself with Linda and I can only assume it was to call Bernard. Either that day or the next day, they came with a new demand: $6million, double the sum that had been agreed, the deal blew up.....he had then and still has no desire to fight Joe Calzaghe, that much is pretty clear." Jay Larkin - Then Programe Manager of Showtime.

 

Larkin basically goes on to add that Hopkins was a cherry picker and it was always a struggle getting him to fight people. Hopkins only really fought people when he moved to light heavy and was in his prome and had the win/win situation of age as an excuse for losing. Don't bother saying Tito is a better win than Lacy when Tito was destroyed by Wright after Hopkins and was never a middle.

 

Well look, Vanderpool was beaten by the "bum" Lacy and Echols was beaten by Mudine as well. Two "bums" when the division was "rubbish".

It's funny though how the division was apparently great in the Benn, Eubank and co. era, then rubbish for 10 years while Calzaghe dominated and now "great" again. Is it possible that maybe Calzaghe is so great he made that division look bad. :huh

 

Well why exept $3 million first time then? Even Showtime said that that was a really good pay day for Hopkins? and maybe Hopkins turned that down because he would have been utterly destroyed by a light heavy weight/prime Jones? I think Jones would have beaten him even more convincingly than he did the first time as Jones was greener than Hopkins was the first time they fought.

I love how Hopkins fans always have an excuse. No dought they will go back to saying Calzaghe ducked Hopkins in a week. Even though this is proof of a Hopkins duck really, it certainly proves that Calzaghe didn't duck Hopkins.

 

Well why didn'y he? Mayweather has been ducking Pacquiao for starters but at least he had an excuse with the whole steroid allegations. What can Hopkins say? Nothing. atsch

Calzaghe would have beaten Hopkins more convincingly back then imo.

 

Well if Calzaghe was such a bum who would have been destroyed by a prime Hopkins like you lot say why not take the fight then? It's a good pay day and would have been good to move to 168 first instead of taking the leap to 175 in one go? :huh

No excuse again.

 

In July 2002 Hopkins had already beaten Trinidad. He only fought once in 2002. Now your basically admitting that Hopkins ducked a fight with Calzaghe because he wanted a bigger and easier pay day against De La Hoya. So why do Hopkins fans constantly say Calzaghe "cherry picked" when he actually did fight the best guys he could most of the time.

Earlier today you blamed Calzaghe for stalling the fight "like a vulcher" until Hopkins was shot. Now you have had to go back on your word because a few posters on here have given you the cold hard facts to digest.

I'll take my hat off to you both for coming on here though. The other, more racist B-Hop fans haven't been able to face it.

46-0.

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