Comments on: Bernard Hopkins Beaten by ‘White Boy’

By: Bernard Hopkins Proves at 43 He Can Still Beat a White Boy Like Kelly Pavlik | Larry Brown Sports

Sun, 19 Oct 2008 09:27:01 +0000

[...] was forced to eat his words upon losing to Joe Calzaghe. Hopkins declared pre-fight that he would never let a white boy beat him. Then he went out and lost the fight. Half a year later he was the underdog by most accounts in a [...]

By: Fast Eddie

Fast Eddie — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 04:48:57 +0000

Well here we go again! The sport is called BOXING people! Not BRAWLING! And you win by amassing points and winning the most ROUNDS over the course of the entire fight. It really is a simple system, yet morons the world over seem to constantly forget how this system works! Nowhere in the sanctioning rules for these bouts does it state anything about, “whoever lands the HARDER punches”, or that you, “must control the tempo of the fight”. They call it the “sweet science” because it really is just that when these types of matchups are created.

Mike Tyson chose to erase any scientific method whatsoever when he blazed his path to becoming the most prolific knock out artist to ever put boxing gloves on. But most fighters in history leave their destiny in the hands of the judges. If you don’t like the way it is setup, then its probably best if you undertake a different occupation, one where you have more control over your destiny. I for one still enjoy this great sport, regardless of the occasional bad decision. These guys judging the fights are human and far from perfect, and we all need to keep this in mind when witnessing their decisions.
To sum it all up, it was a shitty almost unwatchable fight that ended up with the correct decision. Most of Hopkins fights are hard to watch these days anyhow and I think its time for him to hang up the gloves. Calzaghe is a hell of a boxer who just had the misfortune of fighting a man that is impossible to look impressive against. Now lets get Calzaghe and Pavlik together and everyone will be happy!

By: james

james — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:14:48 +0000

Homeboy moron got beat by a whiteboy. What a shocker. Guess he can’t go back to the “hood” anymore. And all of this on dumbasse’s home turf. And he’s still complaining about the loss like the ghetto punk that he is. Confirms that Black people are the most racist mofos on the planet. I would have loved to hear Calzaghe say that he would never lose to a “negro”. Then we would see the American double standard/self0imposed guilt trip in action.

By: maxsportz

maxsportz — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 23:15:27 +0000

BHop lost clearly. I don’t see him as a racist. The statement was racial but it happens all the time. And yes there is a double standard. But the reason there is a double standard is because groups are ready to protest when a white guy says something dumb (Imus). When a black guy says something similar in scope there is no group set up to boycott advertisers or the like so no waves are made. Most whites jut complain about a double standard. if they care so much they should get out the protest signs. I have s life (blogging & commenting on blogs ) so I just do not care.

By: Larry Brown

Larry Brown — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 22:13:51 +0000

Man, Zachery … and I thought elementary school kids had bad run-on sentences. Yeesh.

By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:15:04 +0000

Hopkins is indeed a racist. The White Boy took the high road and avoided the issue. I like dHopkins before this fight, but have lost all respect since.

He was lucky to get a split decision. I guess he forgot to pay off two of the judges.

I have never seen a top notch fighter fake a low blow or injury to buy time. What a baby! He didn’t want to fight. He wanted to hold, dance, and whine. Maybe he should be on Dancing with the Stars. I am sure that he would be the undisputed Champ on that show.

By: Gene

Gene — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 19:16:15 +0000

Hopkins, the racist has to eat his words. How delightful. The compustats said that these were the most punches taken by Hopkins in the 21 fights he’s had with computer stats. Two judges gave the fight to Calzaghe by a wide margin and the third gave it to Hopkins by one point. Evidently, the third judge either saw a different fight from his side of the ring, or he was on something.

Zackery Wilbourn, you don’t have a clue about the history of boxing or the scoring of a boxing match. Many punchers with little or no boxing skill, have gotten in a lucky punch on Joe Louis, Muhammed Ali, etc. Even if they do nothing the rest of the fight but manage to stay on their feet, you have them winning the fight. Nice!!! I guess no boxer like Roy Jones should even bother trying professional boxing.

Hopkins now has to eat his words and the world should call him out for being a racist.

By: Tommy Gunn

Tommy Gunn — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 17:04:30 +0000

Hopkins is a washed up criminal who evades fighting and lunges with most of his punches while Joe Calzaghe was the agressor the whole fight and deserved the decision. All Hopkins did was go in for another payday, I guess oscar isnt paying him enough to run his chicken de la hoya promotions, also the fans wont ever want to watch Hopkins again as he is not at all entertaining. The whole fight he ran and rushed in to hold on to Calzaghe, lets eliminate the old horses of the past and move on to the future white boys like Pavlik. To bad Hopkins eat your words ya nigga ya lost to the white boy!!!!

By: Zackery Wilbourn

Zackery Wilbourn — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 16:20:57 +0000

This is why boxing is in the shape it’s in now biased judges and fans if someone hit you hard enough to knock you on your ass buckle your knees he’s winning the fight until you return the favor no matter how many punches the other guy land in order to win he must return the favor bernard likes loading up on his punches so of course he’s going to get out punched Joe seemed to like to throw alot of punches but they seemed weaker i believe myself Bernard won only on the fact that he floored Joe the point to boxing is to knock the other person down or some popularity or some other racist hate reason it seemed alot of people’s was offended by B-Hop’s remarks these are fighters still people’s so of course they going to say stuff to get under each under skin remember when B-Hop insulted Felix Trinadad with the rice?

By: lee dexter

lee dexter — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 12:31:05 +0000

joe is best in world he beat you in your own bark yard eat your hart hopkins.