{"id":16682,"date":"2011-10-05T02:03:19","date_gmt":"2011-10-05T06:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=16682"},"modified":"2011-10-05T02:03:19","modified_gmt":"2011-10-05T06:03:19","slug":"bernard-hopkins-stuns-media-with-fighting-words-boxing-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=16682","title":{"rendered":"Bernard Hopkins: STUNS MEDIA WITH FIGHTING WORDS \u2013 BOXING NEWS"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>\u201cI chose to continue to fight and defend what I worked so hard to get. So why not get all of the benefits of what I\u2019ve been doing for 20-something years and then walk away when it\u2019s time?<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that it\u2019ll come down to who is the better fighter. The better fighter, the better person, the better strategist and who wants it the most.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt really would be gratifying to me and happy for me to sit back in my 60\u2019s and hear commentators say, \u201cThis guy is four fights away from beating Bernard Hopkins\u2019 record.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn today\u2019s world where, unfortunately, most athletes, either don\u2019t stay as focused long enough after they get a taste of what we call success in life, or just run into the wrong match, the wrong person. So I\u2019m going to have fun in the second half of my life.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, Chad Dawson said something that made sense. He\u2019s going to be throwing a lot of punches, but I\u2019m going to be connecting a lot of punches. He\u2019s going to throw all the punches he wants, but I\u2019m going to be connecting more than he is throwing.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m coming in there with an aggressive game, but a smart game. If people think that the last two fights of my career were the old Bernard Hopkins from the Blue Horizon to Atlantic City days in the early 90\u2019s, then I\u2019m saying that they should watch this fight.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe bottom line is they are going to see a better, a more aggressive, smart fighter in me when I beat Chad Dawson.
\n\u201cWhen you look at my r\u00e9sum\u00e9 compared with his [Dawson\u2019s] r\u00e9sum\u00e9, you must say, or must agree, that my r\u00e9sum\u00e9 is a Ferrari and his is a Mercedes.<\/p>\n

\u201cKeep an eye on [Danny] Garcia. He\u2019s got a fight coming up [on October 15] that\u2019ll prove he belongs in the pound for pound contender\u2019s bracket.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the end of the day, what Dewey did is beyond anything that I\u2019ve done in the ring; it is beyond anything I accomplished outside of the ring in my personal [life].<\/p>\n

\u201cI want my gray to be in the ring. I want Chad Dawson to see I have gray hair. I want to look like his father\u2014well, I could be his father. I\u2019m not, but I could be! That age difference is appropriate for me to look like I\u2019m gray and I have gray, because realistically, if you do the math, he could be my son.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are a lot of people that are 46 and younger that feel lousy today that never took a punch. Well, change your lifestyle. Change what you do. I did it years ago, so I\u2019m ahead of the game. I\u2019m not feeling like I\u2019m 26 every day.I always say if I have to put a number on myself, the way I feel today, I feel like I am 36. So if I\u2019m 36 to 46, that means I\u2019m 10 years ahead of the game.\u201d<\/p>\n

Danny Garcia, Top Undefeated Junior Welterweight Contender<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel blessed, just for being recognized that I have the talent.[For Hopkins to] recognize my hard work and dedication. I\u2019m just blessed now, and it\u2019s motivating me more to shine on October 15.<\/p>\n

\u201cI never rely on my power because that can\u2019t win you a fight. I rely on my skills. I think I use my brain, and I break my opponent down and land the big shots. So my power is just my last resort.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know I got more mature since I turned pro.I\u2019m a lot smarter and it\u2019s a chess game in there. So now when I feel like a guy\u2019s kind of outsmarting me a little bit, I stay relaxed and I just try to figure it out.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was definitely a growing process. I learned how to be a smart fighter and not go in over anxious and just set the pace.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just feel strong, and we had a great camp. I\u2019m just anxious to show the world what I can do. I\u2019m ready. I wish it was tomorrow.<\/p>\n

\u201cI watched Kendall Holt\u2019s last fight and I said to my dad, \u2018I am going to fight the winner of this fight.\u2019 So I feel like I predicted my future a little bit.<\/p>\n

\u201cHolt isn\u2019t going to touch me like he did to his last opponent. You can\u2019t hit what you can\u2019t see.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like I took my time. I have had 21 fights; I never rushed and was like, \u2018Yeah, go ahead and put me on HBO,\u2019 or begged for it. It came to me when they thought I was ready. I know I am ready, so we took the opportunity and we trained hard.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dewey Bozella, Top Undefeated Junior Welterweight Contender<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I was young, I was bitter because I never thought I\u2019d get out of there [prison].I thought I\u2019d die in there.<\/p>\n

\u201cI came to Bernard Hopkins\u2019 camp and I was approved to fight. Thank God for that. I worked hard and it paid off.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not going out to lie down; I\u2019m going out to fight. I\u2019m not going to let this guy come and whip my butt.<\/p>\n

\u201c[On being able to have his first professional fight] it\u2019s just like getting out of prison. It is a new experience.<\/p>\n

\u201cI always thought I had a chance to get out .People said, \u2018Ah, it\u2019ll never happen, it\u2019ll never happen,\u2019 but it did happen.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to get this [fight] over with and then I want to open my own gym.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy goal is to help young kids as well as adults to help turn their lives around and keep out of trouble.<\/p>\n

\u201c[My gym is going to be for] whoever comes in, but it\u2019s going to be for the kids.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am a professional fighter. I\u2019m here.<\/p>\n

\u201c[On earning bachelor\u2019s and master\u2019s degrees in prison] I always said, \u2018How can I give something back to society if I have nothing to offer?<\/p>\n

\u201cI knew I was getting out of prison. Either I was going to die in there and go out in a box, or I was going to walk out of there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Naazim Richardson, Hopkins\u2019 Trainer<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can\u2019t underestimate Dawson in any way, shape or form.<\/p>\n

\u201cPascal and Pavlik were supposed to be the guys running the sport. I said if you can beat these kids, you can beat anybody.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love boxing. I love the sport. And this guy [Hopkins] is boxing.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cI chose to continue to fight and defend what I worked so hard to get. So why not get all of the benefits of what I\u2019ve been doing for 20-something years and then walk away when it\u2019s time? \u201cI think that it\u2019ll come down to who is the better fighter. The better fighter, the better […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[81,105,151],"class_list":["post-16682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-bernard-hopkins","tag-boxing","tag-chad-dawson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}