Bernard Hopkins to fight Karo Murat in the summer

[bzkfn]

Bernard Hopkins agrees to light heavyweight title defense against Karo Murat - ESPN

Bernard taking care of his mandatory. Murat has only lost to Cleverly. I saw the Cleverly fight live and Murat looked very one dimensional so Bernard should be able to box his head off.

[Violent Demise]

It's a decent stay busy fight for Hopkins

[Ant Live]

Who?

[Silkeyjoe]

Will be a horrible fight.

[Master]

Hopkins just wants to keep the title to defend it against better fighters and make more money. There seems no urgency on Hopkins part to speed things up and fight the best fighters out there. He must have a 2 year plan for when he is 50.

[TigerFan]

I was clicking around on Boxrec and saw this was on the ESPN TV schedule.

Has this been confirmed anywhere else?

BoxRec Boxing Records

[Master]

So it looks like it will happen.

[ray corso]

Does Bernard pay Karo directly.................before or after the fight? Probably by round just to make sure everything runs smoothly!

I'm tired of Bernard and his "act within the sport"! To bad he took Big George's 2nd career move to this extend, its a joke. As to his ATG status, Please this guy is NOT a great fighter he's a great business man selling all the kid fans a line of BS!!! Bernard was a decent middleweight who is no where near the ATG list in any weight class!!! Ray.

[TigerFan]

I was clicking around on Boxrec and saw this was on the ESPN TV schedule.

Has this been confirmed anywhere else?

BoxRec Boxing Records

Any word on who televises this? A Hopkins fight on ESPN could draw pretty good ratings for boxing.

Also Gary Russell Jr has been added to the card.

[Master]

Hopkins on ESPN would be great but it will never happen.

[armin]

Hop is far from mmy favorite to watch, but cherry picker Seriously?? Over the past five years his opponents stack up to anyone I mean seriously!!! taylor, pavlik, tarver, cloud, pascal, dawson, calzaghe...what are you on about cherry picking