{"id":47474,"date":"2014-11-09T14:19:36","date_gmt":"2014-11-09T19:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=47474"},"modified":"2014-11-09T14:19:36","modified_gmt":"2014-11-09T19:49:36","slug":"bernard-hopkins-boxing-shocker-retirement-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=47474","title":{"rendered":"Bernard Hopkins Boxing Shocker &#8211; Retirement Coming?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\" http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=47474\" rel=\" http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=47474\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-47292 size-full\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/BH.jpg\" alt=\"BH\" width=\"232\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>Newly unified WBA\/IBF\/WBO light heavyweight world champion Sergey Kovalev and 49-year-old boxing legend Bernard Hopkins spoke to the press after Kovalev\u2019s decisive victory in their unification fight on Saturday night in Atlantic City.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sergey Kovalev: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst I want to say the most important thing to me: I\u2019ve reached one of my dreams in professional boxing\u2026Bernard Hopkins is unbelievable despite his age, we went twelve rounds and I have huge respect for him\u2026it wasn\u2019t easier fight than I thought, it was hard, but thankfully I was prepared to go twelve rounds.\u201d<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bernard Hopkins: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAm I going to fight again? That\u2019s like asking a woman after an hour of labor to have another kid\u2026I was trying to turn things around, until the end. Even in the last round until the bell rang\u2026I couldn\u2019t overpower him. I felt like a middleweight in there against a cruiserweight. I simply couldn\u2019t engage\u2026tonight Kovalev was the better man.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=39299\"><span style=\"font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">RSR Is NOW Hiring Boxing Writers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newly unified WBA\/IBF\/WBO light heavyweight world champion Sergey Kovalev and 49-year-old boxing legend Bernard Hopkins spoke to the press after Kovalev\u2019s decisive victory in their unification fight on Saturday night in Atlantic City. Sergey Kovalev: \u201cFirst I want to say the most important thing to me: I\u2019ve reached one of my dreams in professional boxing\u2026Bernard [&hellip;]<\/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":[11043],"class_list":["post-47474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-bernard-hopkins-boxing-shocker-retirement-coming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47474","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=47474"}],"version-history":[{"count":-4,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}