Of course. That's what he's paid to do by the Golden Boy fighters - get beat up and make them look good. He will do his job well in this fight, like always.:yep
What we mean by "NEED" is this. Take Hopkins-Pavlik. Nobody cares about this fight outside of England and Las Vegas, Nevada/ and Youngstown Ohio. Strip joints and bars around the country wont show it. They will lose $$$. Aside from watching it because I despise Bernard "The Cream of Wheat man" Hopkins, and take great delight in watching his expression as he doesnt get the final judges nod, there arent a lot of people that are interested in that fight. Why? Because Bernard is a boring ****ing fighter. He always has been. I remember back in 1998, I was at the Las Vegas Hilton, watching Joppy-Duran. Hopkins-Allen I was the undercard. I was at the bar, along with most of the other fight fans. The LV Convention Center was 1/3 filled for that farce. Nobody gave 2 shits about Hopkins' snaggletoothed ass then, and even fewer do now. I sat through the first round, and yawned. I went out for a shot and a beer. When I came back, Hopkins was hobbling on the outside of the ring, it was the highlight of that fight when Mills Lane threw his overrated ass on the floor!:yep Hopkins-Holmes. I think I made it to the 6th, before I was snoring. Hopkins-Joppy. Myself and 2 other fans fell asleep by the 4th. A Ricardo Mayorga Press Conference is more action filled than any 5 of Borenard's middleweight Title Defenses, with the exception of Taylor-Hopkins, which I thouroughly enjoyed.