B Hop explains racial slur:says he didn't mean it,was just to sell fights.

"Those guys became very good friends afterwards, but their fights sold better because of the black-white thing. This is not anything new."

There you go.He cites that one of his best friends,a former MW is white. He talks about Cooney v Holmes and other fights based on racial lines and says they sold big because of that,and that's why he said it. Regardless of why,I think it was a crude act from a 43 year old man,who appears to have no self respect left,making himself look foolish in and out of the ring v Winky and here too. Oh my,I really want JC to beat his ass.

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Originally Posted by El Gamo

"Those guys became very good friends afterwards, but their fights sold better because of the black-white thing. This is not anything new."

There you go.He cites that one of his best friends,a former MW is white. He talks about Cooney v Holmes and other fights based on racial lines and says they sold big because of that,and that's why he said it. Regardless of why,I think it was a crude act from a 43 year old man,who appears to have no self respect left,making himself look foolish in and out of the ring v Winky and here too. Oh my,I really want JC to beat his ass.

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all the racist's say that. ;D

Where's the link mate?

......wish there was an NAAWP to help us white folk out....we get hated on by everyone and yet no one stands up for us.....well let me correct that, no one in their right mind stands up for us.......and the others don't stand up in a reasonable rational way they go around in lynch mobs and just exacerbate things

The article is over at boxing scene,check it out brothers.

Load of bollocks. He never knew he was being recorded when he said it.

Is he gonna repeat the "I would never lose to a white boy" thing at all the pre-fight press conferences then, seeing as it 'sells fights'?

I really don't think this is that serious. All this is doing is sparking some racial tension up in a fight, and when this happen it will make white and black people want to see the fight even more. If Joe said i will neva loose to a black guy, yes it would cause more of an uproar, but black people that don't even watch boxing would be interesting in seeing the fight just to see bernard kick Joe's ass. Boxing is a very racial sport, people want to see their own race dominate when their fighting another race, that's why that bum Miguel Cotto is so popular cause the majority of his fans are puerto ricans that are blind and realize it's just a matter of time this guy get knocked the fu!k out. Sorry i got a little off topic. O0 Viva Puerto Rico. Nothing personal my rican brothers and sisters.

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I really don't think this is that serious. All this is doing is sparking some racial tension up in a fight, and when this happen it will make white and black people want to see the fight even more. If Joe said i will neva loose to a black guy, yes it would cause more of an uproar, but black people that don't even watch boxing would be interesting in seeing the fight just to see bernard kick Joe's ass. Boxing is a very racial sport, people want to see their own race dominate when their fighting another race, that's why that bum Miguel Cotto is so popular cause the majority of his fans are puerto ricans that are blind and realize it's just a matter of time this guy get knocked the fu!k out. Sorry i got a little off topic. O0 Viva Puerto Rico. Nothing personal my rican brothers and sisters.

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What a dumb thing to say. You must be a right dickhead

and you must be puerto, it's true so you go to hell! Name calling is so not called for so i'm not gon even stoop to your level you piece of shit.

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Originally Posted by mayorook

and you must be puerto, it's true so you go to hell! Name calling is so not called for so i'm not gon even stoop to your level you piece of shit.

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Originally Posted by El Gamo

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Originally Posted by mayorook

and you must be puerto, it's true so you go to hell! Name calling is so not called for so i'm not gon even stoop to your level you piece of shit.

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;D best laugh I had all day!

He probably was only trying to sale the fight but he still shouldn't have said it. if race is the only way hopkins can promote a fight than he's career as a promoter isn't going to last long.

I can see how it could offend some, but the main person who should or could have any major problem with it is joe....and what better chance to make him pay than to beat b-hops ass in the ring. Legal and all. Outside of that it's just hype like before any big fight they want the public to buy into, and it worked pretty good since we're all still talking about it.

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Originally Posted by mayorook

and you must be puerto, it's true so you go to hell! Name calling is so not called for so i'm not gon even stoop to your level you piece of S***.

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LMAO. Kind of inserted foot into mouth on that one, heh? :laugh:

I'm white and I couldn't care less wtf Bernard Hopkins says about "white boys."

Hopkins is a classless douchebag who will get phucked up by Calzaghe anyway...

Lets all just make up this is stupid, and miguel cotto is still overrated ;D

Bernard could have picked a better way to promote the fight.

I mean he could have called Joe a smelly Canadian, and when Joe retorts saying he is actually from Wales, Bernard could have said well that is just as bad!

That would have generated huge buys from here in Canada and over the Pond just in the hope to see Bernard get beat up. With the then ensuing insults from Joe about the US, it would make it one huge PPV.

I should be a promoter!LOL

Well now that he explained it, it makes it all better ::**

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Originally Posted by mayorook

Lets all just make up this is stupid, and miguel cotto is still overrated ;D

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:) I ain't falling out with you, I'm English by the way. So by your fucked up logic I wanted lennox lewis to lose every fight because I'm white. :D

Not my logic, but very true if you don't believe me look back at the Gerry Coney and Larry Holmes fight, and you tell me that race didn't play any part in that fight and many others i don't think its right but it is sad yet true : :(

I'm really disappointed with Bernard, if you are going to act all edgy and provocative by making controversial statements at least have the testicular fortitude to stand by them.

I would have respected him a whole lot more had he been defiant about it and just said 'sue me white boy'

He may think he's all that but he'll never come close to Mayorga and JFat for trash talking.

What a weak willed chickin shit, he should have said 'I'll send him back to the Welsh valleys to play with his sheep'.

Sell Out >:mad

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Originally Posted by mayorook

Not my logic, but very true if you don't believe me look back at the Gerry Coney and Larry Holmes fight, and you tell me that race didn't play any part in that fight and many others i don't think its right but it is sad yet true : :(

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That was back in the early 80's. Believe it or not racial tolerance has improved greatly since then. Sure it still has a long way to go in some places, but we should be beyond that point of drawing ethnicity into the mix.

I'm not a tree hugging, politically correct, overzealous liberal either, but I can still see how his statement can make people uncomfortable.

You guys are retards.. who the fuck cares. Grow up

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Originally Posted by Lyle

......wish there was an NAAWP to help us white folk out....we get hated on by everyone and yet no one stands up for us.....well let me correct that, no one in their right mind stands up for us.......and the others don't stand up in a reasonable rational way they go around in lynch mobs and just exacerbate things

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Because white people are a persecuted group in America. They have no chance of advancement, no way to better themselves. White crackers have had a century of prosperity in the world's biggest economy, most of the time at a significant advantage to actual black people and they're still so dumb they think that they're hard done by. The very fact that there's a big constituency of people out there who think that they're somehow persecuted is the reason that there's so much crude racism in politics today -- the scumbag politicians who "stand up" for the persecuted crackers.

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Originally Posted by Taeth

You guys are retards.. who the fuck cares. Grow up

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You do. Thread title says it all and you decided to take a peek.

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Originally Posted by Kel

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Originally Posted by Taeth

You guys are retards.. who the F*** cares. Grow up

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You do. Thread title says it all and you decided to take a peek.

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CC great reply ;D

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Originally Posted by Kel

Load of bollocks. He never knew he was being recorded when he said it.

Is he gonna repeat the "I would never lose to a white boy" thing at all the pre-fight press conferences then, seeing as it 'sells fights'?

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Exactly.

It's a ridiculous excuse. NO-way a fight would be promoted that way in this day and age (not without extreme subtlety ;)).

What's happening now is Hopkins wanted to promote America-vs-Britain.. BUT.. he's already alienated a huge number of his audience because of his racist comments.

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Originally Posted by Kel

Load of bollocks. He never knew he was being recorded when he said it.

Is he gonna repeat the "I would never lose to a white boy" thing at all the pre-fight press conferences then, seeing as it 'sells fights'?

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Exactly.

It's a ridiculous excuse. NO-way a fight would be promoted that way in this day and age (not without extreme subtlety ;)).

What's happening now is Hopkins wanted to promote America-vs-Britain.. BUT.. he's already alienated a huge number of his audience because of his racist comments.

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I do agree that it's a tasteless, and stupid thing that he said... But I think your dead wrong about him alienating anyone by doing so... Even those who are downright offended by the statement will now want to see him lose for saying it... Considering he's fighting a great white champion who has more than a great chance to beat him, that's certainly not going to turn anyone away from the fight imo..

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Load of bollocks. He never knew he was being recorded when he said it.

Is he gonna repeat the "I would never lose to a white boy" thing at all the pre-fight press conferences then, seeing as it 'sells fights'?

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Exactly.

It's a ridiculous excuse. NO-way a fight would be promoted that way in this day and age (not without extreme subtlety ;)).

What's happening now is Hopkins wanted to promote America-vs-Britain.. BUT.. he's already alienated a huge number of his audience because of his racist comments.

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I do agree that it's a tasteless, and stupid thing that he said... But I think your dead wrong about him alienating anyone by doing so... Even those who are downright offended by the statement will now want to see him lose for saying it... Considering he's fighting a great white champion who has more than a great chance to beat him, that's certainly not going to turn anyone away from the fight imo..

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I meant alienated his American fans that would've been supporting him in the fight.

Hopkins has stated numerous times he was representing America, he wanted an America-vs-Britain angle cause American's are the best, so thats why Calzaghe should come to him..but now, since his racist comments, there's guys on this site that have switched alliances to Calzgahe.

Whether MORE people BUY the fight because Hopkins exposed himself as believing he's superior to the whiteman and turned it into white-vs-black.. dunno? Guess there's plenty of MORONS out there.

He was probably pressured by his parters at Golden Boy to make a statement. I doubt he really said it as a strategy to sell tickets. It was said in the heat of moment and it was dumb but it is what it is, unfortunately there is a double standard in this country. A white guy like Don Imus lost everything because of saying a stupid thing and Bernard will lose nothing. Personally, I think these things are blown out of perportion and it doesnt really hurt anyones feelings, people need to focus on the more important things.

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I'm really disappointed with Bernard, if you are going to act all edgy and provocative by making controversial statements at least have the testicular fortitude to stand by them.

I would have respected him a whole lot more had he been defiant about it and just said 'sue me white boy'

He may think he's all that but he'll never come close to Mayorga and JFat for trash talking.

What a weak willed chickin shit, he should have said 'I'll send him back to the Welsh valleys to play with his sheep'.

Sell Out >:mad

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I know ....when has Bernard ever played the nice guy? He should have been like f that honkey. At least until the fight was over...then he could have explained he was just doin it for show. LOL well he must have not wanted to upset his white American fans that would be backing him. Shit, it got me riled up a bit but I know Bernard isnt really a racist. Im just saying boxing needs villians too , he kind of wussed out....he should have played it to the end. But I'm not mad at him anyway, he's always been a favorite of mine. I'm still on the fence as to who I would pick in this one.

Steve Bunce writes an article in this months Boxing monthly magazine saying that he was only a few feet away from Hopkins & Calzaghe and they were shaking hands and being friendly when all of a sudden the press surronded them and Hopkins noticed. Hopkins turned to one of his mates and winked and then started trash talking and then came out with the white boy comment. Its just all bravado to sell the fight just like what Mayweather does before all his fights!!

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Originally Posted by Boxerharvey

Steve Bunce writes an article in this months Boxing monthly magazine saying that he was only a few feet away from Hopkins & Calzaghe and they were shaking hands and being friendly when all of a sudden the press surronded them and Hopkins noticed. Hopkins turned to one of his mates and winked and then started trash talking and then came out with the white boy comment. Its just all bravado to sell the fight just like what Mayweather does before all his fights!!

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Exactly, he's got us all talking about it months before the fight happens. You could tell by the way he was saying it that there was no malice intended, there's going to be a bigger build up for this fight than I first expected.

....so by that rational all I have to do to get people paying more attention to me is be racist???




CAN DO :thumb:



I will now start my posts with: Attention negroes, wops, wetbacks, and coolies....thanks Bernard Hopkins ;D
(and for all you thin skinned minorities, I am being sarcastic so if you get offended then you're an idiot)

come on guys, big deal. Every one gets racist sometimes, and don't you guys deny it ;) I once called this cat a pu$$y and a home-dog a b1tch. It wasn't a big deal, yea yea ya. racisim is frown apon becuase everyone does not want to get expose as a racist but we all have a bit of racist in us. It hasn't been completely erase off the program of our minds, but good thing we are all too chicken to follow our racist ancesters aye ;D

P.S I am not a racist, I would post the sarcasm sign but Im to lazy to look it up.

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Originally Posted by El Gamo

"Those guys became very good friends afterwards, but their fights sold better because of the black-white thing. This is not anything new."

There you go.He cites that one of his best friends,a former MW is white. He talks about Cooney v Holmes and other fights based on racial lines and says they sold big because of that,and that's why he said it. Regardless of why,I think it was a crude act from a 43 year old man,who appears to have no self respect left,making himself look foolish in and out of the ring v Winky and here too. Oh my,I really want JC to beat his ass.

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Christ, the politically correct wagon just rolled into town... who gives a shit. People are so damn touchy. What? cuz he said he wasn't gonna let some white boy beat him? OOOOOOOOO! Not that!

People need to friggin lighten up. It's so irritating ::**

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Originally Posted by mayorook

Not my logic, but very true if you don't believe me look back at the Gerry Coney and Larry Holmes fight, and you tell me that race didn't play any part in that fight and many others i don't think its right but it is sad yet true : :(

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What is this? the 70s? ;)

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Originally Posted by PRIDE OF BOSTON

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Originally Posted by El Gamo

"Those guys became very good friends afterwards, but their fights sold better because of the black-white thing. This is not anything new."

There you go.He cites that one of his best friends,a former MW is white. He talks about Cooney v Holmes and other fights based on racial lines and says they sold big because of that,and that's why he said it. Regardless of why,I think it was a crude act from a 43 year old man,who appears to have no self respect left,making himself look foolish in and out of the ring v Winky and here too. Oh my,I really want JC to beat his a**.

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Christ, the politically correct wagon just rolled into town... who gives a S***. People are so damn touchy. What? cuz he said he wasn't gonna let some white boy beat him? OOOOOOOOO! Not that!

People need to friggin lighten up. It's so irritating ::**

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The only problem I have is that if Calzaghe made a remark about blacks, then Hopkins would have went ballistic along with Sharpton, Jackson, Oprah the whole 9 yards.. He is a piece of dog doo with no class

If a guy has to explain a racist remark, he is indeed a racist. You wont catch a non racist saying some stupid shit like that. He let his true emotions out because he knew he was talking to a better man and he lost it.

That's like a coward getting drunk and suddenly becoming tough. It's what they really want to be but for the most part they respect the consequences.

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Originally Posted by El Gamo

"Those guys became very good friends afterwards, but their fights sold better because of the black-white thing. This is not anything new."

There you go.He cites that one of his best friends,a former MW is white. He talks about Cooney v Holmes and other fights based on racial lines and says they sold big because of that,and that's why he said it. Regardless of why,I think it was a crude act from a 43 year old man,who appears to have no self respect left,making himself look foolish in and out of the ring v Winky and here too. Oh my,I really want JC to beat his a**.

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Christ, the politically correct wagon just rolled into town... who gives a S***. People are so damn touchy. What? cuz he said he wasn't gonna let some white boy beat him? OOOOOOOOO! Not that!

People need to friggin lighten up. It's so irritating ::**

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The only problem I have is that if Calzaghe made a remark about blacks, then Hopkins would have went ballistic along with Sharpton, Jackson, Oprah the whole 9 yards.. He is a piece of dog doo with no class

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thats true... I'd say the same thing the other way too... It would be overhyped rediculousness... But yes that comment would draw more issues. People are retarded... I could care less. I like my boxers to box. I'm watchin whether your white, black, asian, indian, muslim, Russian, or purple... As long as your beating eachothers head in I'm watching.

I'm not sitting up here on a high horse or anything I just could care less.

Hopkins can say what he wants but when push comes to shove good 'ol one hit and hold Popkins is gonna get white washed with flurries on the way in. He's gonna get swarmed. I love hopkins but he's biting off more then he can chew. He's out there spouting "racial" comments to do exactly this... Hype the fight.

Do you think Hokins cares what YOU think about him? No! He never has. If you like him then you'll watch and root for him... If you hate him you'll watch the fight to watch him finnally get his mouth shut but no matter what....

YOUR WATCHING THE FIGHT...

He could give to shits what he looks like to any of you.

The point that this conversation is even happening shows that he's a better bisiness man then he is given credit for.

Was it wrong to say what he said?

Who gives a shit, it's not a friggin popularity contest.

Only one thing matters... Does Hopkins have ONE MORE GREAT FIGHT left in him or did he meet Calzaghe just to damn late in his carrer. Thats all that matters folk. Not that he slandered someone or said something or didn't wipe his ass the right way.



In closing... WHO FWOCKIN CARES? ;D