IT'S YOUR THING, BERNARD "I think this was my best performance -- better than Tarver, better than Trinidad, better than Oscar. I am extremely happy tonight. Ninety percent of the media picked Pavlik. I always appreciate naysayers. That is what motivates me -- when people are against me. I don't wish I was like that, but that's the way it is." -- the ageless Bernard Hopkins, who shocked the world by dominating Kelly Pavlik on Saturday night ( This content is protected ) "I just couldn't get off. I don't know why. It was not his slickness. I just couldn't throw a jab, a double jab. I couldn't do what I was used to doing. We'll go back to the drawing board. It just wasn't me tonight. I will be more comfortable going back to 160." -- Kelly Pavlik "He's a great fighter, but I knew my style and quickness were underrated and I was going give him problems. I wanted him to lead so I could do what I love to do -- counterpunch. He kept coming forward, which was an advantage to me. He was really heavy-handed. I could feel his power, but he never hurt me. I didn't get hit flush." -- Hopkins "I would fight Roy in a heartbeat." -- Hopkins on a potential, 15 years-in-the-making rematch with Roy Jones, Jr. "Don't let this fight destroy you. You're a great middleweight champion. You have a great heart. Keep your head up. Keep fighting. You have to learn one thing. You have to learn that slickness that black fighters have and then you'll really be a great champion. I don't want you to quit. If I have to go to your house and take you to the gym, I will." -- an edited version of Hopkins speaking to Pavlik after the scores were read "I'm tired of proving myself!" -- Hopkins, staring down at press row after the fight TELL US HOW YOU REALLY FEEL "I oppose 100 percent this ultimate fighting. It has taken boxing to the era of the caveman and the Roman circus." -- WBC kingpin Jose Sulaiman ( This content is protected ) "These are not ancient times. This fighting is fed to those fans who like aggression, blood and illegality. They are not boxing fans. Boxing fans have class." -- Sulaiman "Thirty-five years ago this was a savage but legalised sport but we have achieved so much. Now we have safety, justice, there is no more favouritism by judges." -- Sulaiman, SPEAKING OF DIFFERENT PLANETS "I feel good. It was a great fight." -- Billy Dib, describing his excruciatingly, agonizingly awful loss to Steven Luevano ( This content is protected ) "Luevano fought like a warrior." -- Dib "The gameplan going in was to wait and make him come toward me. So I waited and when he came in, I was able to counter and connect." -- Dib YO, PAULIE "I mean he is a decent fighter, I don't think he is a great fighter. I think he is decent." -- Paulie Malignaggi on world junior welterweight champion Ricky Hatton, his Nov. 22 opponent ( This content is protected ) "Why is he the only fighter in boxing history that has to be a problem for the referee to break him up? When somebody is holding you, you break. It's pretty obvious." -- Malignaggi "Hatton is going to be outclassed when he fights me." -- Malignaggi "I don't take it as a sign of disrespect, but I do think he is overlooking me." -- Malignaggi, on Hatton wanting to fight the Oscar-Pacquiao winner
"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwww" - LeonMcS reading the round by round updates of Hopkins-Pavlik on ESB and watching his entire Betfair account draining away.
I said last week i would be having a tidy shunt on Calzaghe to beat Pavlik the stake was going to be around £ 4,000 at about 2-1 , that was going to pay for my beemer bike , that **** Hopkins ruined it for me its put me back two years now Leon ...:fire
Im getting on Calzaghe by Stoppage. To beat Roy Jones Junior. It was only 2 fights ago that Roy struggled to beat Hanshaw if it wasn't for that 11th round knockdown.
Smart money here in Wales is going on the stoppage Trash , This is Joe's last fight he will be breaking BOTH hands on Roy's ****ing head , you can take that to the bank mate . if one of those so called slaps connect on Roy's Vera he's going out . :deal
Germanys getting a whole lot better. In saying that Spain, Russia and Australia have been the homes of poor decisions last year.
