{"id":27098,"date":"2013-03-10T02:35:47","date_gmt":"2013-03-10T06:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=27098"},"modified":"2013-03-10T02:35:47","modified_gmt":"2013-03-10T06:35:47","slug":"bernard-hopkins-defeats-tavoris-cloud-father-time-turned-back-again-boxing-news-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=27098","title":{"rendered":"Bernard Hopkins Defeats Tavoris Cloud: Father Time Turned Back Again \u2013 BOXING NEWS &#038; RESULTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=27098\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6967\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"hopkinsheader2\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/hopkinsheader2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>By Geno McGahee<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 48 year old former middleweight champion, Bernard Hopkins, 53-6-2, 32 KO\u2019s, proved too cagy for the younger IBF light heavyweight champion, Tavoris Cloud, 24-1, 19 KO\u2019s, out-boxing him en route to a wide decision win by scores of 117-111 and 116-112 (twice). <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Hopkins knows how to control fighters like Cloud. He did the same thing to Kelly Pavlik. Slow plodders have little to no chance to defeat Hopkins unless they catch him. Cloud wasn\u2019t busy enough to make the openings happen. He fell into Bernard\u2019s game and didn\u2019t gamble. He just followed Hopkins around the ring and allowed him to maul him, hit him, and tie him up when he wanted to.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s hard to imagine that Hopkins can go much longer, but we\u2019ve been saying that for 10 years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newzbreaker.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19486\" title=\"NEWZBREAKER-BANNER\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/NEWZBREAKER-BANNER.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Geno McGahee The 48 year old former middleweight champion, Bernard Hopkins, 53-6-2, 32 KO\u2019s, proved too cagy for the younger IBF light heavyweight champion, Tavoris Cloud, 24-1, 19 KO\u2019s, out-boxing him en route to a wide decision win by scores of 117-111 and 116-112 (twice).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[105,2208,532],"class_list":["post-27098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-boxing","tag-hopkins","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27098","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=27098"}],"version-history":[{"count":-4,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}