{"id":16884,"date":"2011-10-12T10:19:17","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T14:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=16884"},"modified":"2011-10-12T10:19:17","modified_gmt":"2011-10-12T14:19:17","slug":"bernard-hopkins-talks-and-talks-some-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=16884","title":{"rendered":"Bernard Hopkins TALKS AND TALKS SOME MORE"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"<\/a>BERNARD HOPKINS, WBC & Ring Magazine Light Heavyweight World Champion<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cBeing 46 and sexy with the body of a 25-year-old? I think that is pretty impressive.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can predict I will win this fight. How I win will come out this Saturday night.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want the best Chad Dawson on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe has to come out in character and not be the Dawson that he has been for many of his fights. The name doesn\u2019t match the last three or four outcomes. When you have the name \u2018Bad\u2019 and you\u2019re not Michael Jackson, you have to be able to own that. They call me \u2018The Executioner\u2019 for a reason.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have no problem putting the title on the line. This is what I do.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know if Dawson is hungry. He says he is.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe past is the past and tomorrow is unknown. On Saturday night, I want to put another page in the history book of my career.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf I am still going to compete and be the best in the division, and part of the conversation of the best in boxing, then this fight is the next step.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery now and then an athlete comes along and does something different than those before him or her. It takes guts to be different.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t go into camp needing to lose 20-30 pounds. I don\u2019t need to get into physical shape. I am a health and wellness guy. This is part of my lifestyle. It is automatic to me to be ready to fight. My engine is always running.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt takes me a round or two until I know exactly what I have to do in a fight. You can\u2019t overstudy a test, so your natural instincts have to be your guide. The great athletes always adjust. I don\u2019t care what sport it is, only an elite athlete can do that.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou have to be strong. It\u2019s easy for me to look at adversity and temptation and not even have an urge. It isn\u2019t a struggle. That isn\u2019t me. That is part of my longevity.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe difference in this fight is that I am fighting Chad Dawson who has plenty of credentials. He believes he is the guy to beat me. I have to win to prove him wrong. The problem is whether or not he means what he believes.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am a pretty good dancer, but if my dance partner steps on my feet, it will make me look bad. If Dawson is ready to dance, then it will be a good fight. It could be the \u2018Fight of the Year.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cI am knocking on the door of being the oldest \u2018Fighter of the Year\u2019 ever. I have a chance to seal that deal this Saturday night on pay-per-view.<\/p>\n

\u201cI always have a motivation. Something to push me to win and that motivation is to become the oldest \u2018Fighter of the Year.\u2019 It puts pressure on the writers, 90 percent of whom are 40 and up. I want to put a bug in their ear that I am trying to make history on that front.<\/p>\n

\u201cI never operate well when I am the favorite in a fight. I like being the underdog. I think that is the reason a lot of people want to watch. I am not surprised I am the underdog.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a new movement in my career. Am I the underdog because of my age or because of my resume? It must be my age, because I know can\u2019t be the resume.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am 12-1 against southpaws, arugably 13-0 with the Calzaghe fight. I am a right handed fighter which is death to a southpaw.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am fighting someone taller than me for the first time in almost 10 years.<\/p>\n

\u201cI might have little in my favor, but I will win on Saturday night.\u201d<\/p>\n

OSCAR DE LA HOYA, President of Golden Boy Promotions<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cAs every fight goes by, I think Hopkins gets better and better and is demonstrating to everyone that he is going to be around a long time.<\/p>\n

\u201cBernard Hopkins has faced them all. He has fought every style, every adversity. Everything they put in front of him, he leaps over. He is our bionic man.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou have to look up to Hopkins and what he is doing at his age.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe beauty about Hopkins is that fighters usually have one, maybe two styles. He has a plan C, D and E.<\/p>\n

\u201cHopkins is able to adapt to any style. He is a chameleon in the ring and that is dangerous for any opponent.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt doesn\u2019t surprise me that Hopkins wants to fight the best. He is the best that I faced in my career.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBelieve It Or Not!: Hopkins vs. Dawson\u201d is a 12-round bout for Hopkins\u2019 WBC and Ring Magazine Light Heavyweight World Championship Titles taking place on Saturday, Oct. 15 at STAPLES Center in Los Angeles, Calif. and will be produced and distributed live by HBO Pay-Per-View\u00ae beginning at 9:00 p.m. ET\/6:00 p.m. PT. The event is presented by Golden Boy Promotions and Gary Shaw Productions and sponsored by Cerveza Tecate, AT&T and Ripley\u2019s Believe It or Not. In addition to this championship main event showdown, the televised pay-per-view undercard will also feature Antonio DeMarco vs. Jorge Linares in a 12-round fight for the vacant WBC Lightweight World Title, Kendall Holt vs. Danny Garcia in 12-round bout for the vacant NABO Junior Welterweight Title and Paulie Malignaggi vs. Orlando Lora in a 10-round welterweight bout. DeMarco vs. Linares is presented in association with Teiken Promotions.<\/p>\n

Tickets for Hopkins vs. Dawson, priced at $300, $150, $75 and $25, are on sale now and are available for purchase online at www.staplescenter.com or www.ticketmaster.com, via Ticketmaster charge-by-phone lines at (800) 745-3000and at the STAPLES Center box office.<\/p>\n

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BERNARD HOPKINS, WBC & Ring Magazine Light Heavyweight World Champion \u201cBeing 46 and sexy with the body of a 25-year-old? I think that is pretty impressive. \u201cI can predict I will win this fight. How I win will come out this Saturday night. \u201cI want the best Chad Dawson on Saturday night. \u201cHe has to […]<\/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],"class_list":["post-16884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-bernard-hopkins","tag-boxing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16884","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=16884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}