Bernard Hopkins Vs. Beibut Shumenov SHOCKER: Boxing News

On Saturday, April 19, IBF light heavyweight world champion Bernard Hopkins (54-6-2, 32 KOs) faces WBA world champion Beibut Shumenov (14-1, 9 KOs) in an attempt, at 49-years-old, to become the oldest fighter in boxing history to unify world titles. Washington DC’s “DC Armory,” the site of several championship boxing matches in the last year, will host the return of the future Hall of Famer. In the co-main event, popular undefeated WBO middleweight world champion Peter “Kid Chocolate” Quillin (30-0, 22 KOs) defends his title for the third time when he meets WBO European titleholder and former interim WBO junior middleweight champion Lukas Konecny (50-4, 23 KOs).

“It’s no secret that my one of my biggest goals has been to unify the titles and getting to do that in a city where I have a lot of history is the best-case scenario,” said Hopkins, who defended his middleweight title with a seventh-round technical knockout of Robert Allen in Washington, D.C. on Feb. 6, 1999. “I’m coming back to break another record by unifying the title and I’m looking to get my first knockout since I fought Oscar De La Hoya in 2004. I know Shumenov is tough, but I’m tougher and I’m not going to let him make a name for himself by being the one to stop me.”

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