After 17 years, Bernard Hopkins (51-5-1, 32 KO’s) avenged a decision loss to Roy Jones Jr. (54-7, 40 KO’s) by capturing a 12 round unanimous decision victory in a rough and rugged battle. The official scores were 118-109 and 117-110 twice. Hopkins, 45, looked the fresher of the two, however, Jones, 41, still possessed quicker [...]
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After 17 long years Bernard Hopkins finally gained a measure of revenge with a unanimous decision victory over Roy Jones Jr with scores of 117 -110, 117-110 & 118-109. Hopkins would fight in spurts before clinching and Jones had no answer for this until the 5th round where he finally decided to let his hands [...]
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Well it appears that even at this stage in his career, despite having a greater legacy Bernard Hopkins can’t get out of Roy Jones Jr’s shadow. Golden Boy Promotions yesterday sent out a press release with some of boxing’s biggest names predictions on tonight’s fight and some of the responses were shocking to say the [...]
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People may question why it has taken so long or why it is even happening but I won’t lie, I’m ridiculously excited about Saturday’s rematch between Bernard Hopkins and Roy Jones Jr. 17 years ago when I was the tender age of 4, Jones Jr beat Hopkins for a vacant middleweight title and for me [...]
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17 years after Roy Jones Jr handed him a decisive loss (some say his only), Bernard Hopkins finally has his chance at revenge and he promises he will savour it by thrashing Roy Jones in their light heavyweight bout. In the 17 years since Jones beat Hopkins for a vacant middleweight belt, the two have [...]
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One of my favourite fights in recent history. If ever there was a case for not betting against Bernard Hopkins this was it. Many gave Hopkins no chance against ‘The Ghost’, he had just come over a loss against Joe Calzaghe, his 3rd in 5 fights and the other 2 of those defeats came at [...]
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Former super middleweight and light heavyweight world champion Joe Calzaghe has ruled out a return to the ring. Calzaghe’s name had been mentioned as a potential opponent for a number of fighters including WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch, light heavyweight star Chad Dawson and the winner of the ‘Super Six’ tournament but the undefeated [...]
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Following on from his 5th round stoppage of Italian Antonio Brancalion for the vacant European light heavyweight title, Wales’ Nathan Cleverly has promised to capture a world title. Cleverly was excited to have picked up the European belt and gave a frank assessment of his performance claiming: “Brancalion never committed and I had a plan [...]
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Pinoy Power/Latin Fury: Las Vegas Hilton Super Flyweight: Nonito Donaire W KO 3 Manual Vargas Interim WBA title Bantamweight: Fernando Montiel W KO 1 Cisco Morales WBO title Bantamweight: Eric Morel W UD 12 Gerry Penalosa Interim WBO title Featherweight: Bernabe Concepcion W UD 10 Mario Santiago Night of Champions: Wembley Arena Light Heavyweight: Nathan [...]
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