Quote Originally Posted by TheDukeof74
Hopkins: I'm out of retirement!
By Jose Reyes / Photo: Jc Diaz
"Still got the fire, still got the legs," ring legend Bernard Hopkins told Fightnews.com. "I'm out of retirement, this is the first announcement. Bernard Hopkins is out of retirement. Bernard Hopkins is going to fight until he can't fight no more. Bernard Hopkins has a good three to four years of boxing to give the world what they need. Boxing right now needs Bernard Hopkins. Boxing needs the personality of Bernard Hopkins, boxing don't need me per say as an athlete but they need my personality. No one in the world does an interview like Bernard Hopkins, no one holds it down like Bernard Hopkins. Love me or hate me. You will get a sound byte whether you agree or disagree with me and at the end of the day when you sit ringside, you know Bernard Hopkins will give a 'Bernard Hopkins' performance."
Saturday, November 25 2006
no one holds it down like Bernard Hopkins... - I don't understand Gangster wannabe talk, can anyone translate wtf that means in english plz? cheers

you know Bernard Hopkins will give a 'Bernard Hopkins' performance... - lol; the Tarver fight is like the only fight since De la hoya that wasn't boood, and unless he goes back to fighting hand picked fighters his fights will suck and he will losse

At middle, i think Winky would beat him, and beat him well
At SMW Calzaghe would beat him, unsure of kessler, and with JT moving up, well id expect him to win, as hes getting better, and hopkins,w ell just older,
At LH: I think this is the only weight where id favour him to beat the 'best' who seems to be atm Clinton Woods
Cruiserweight: Can't see him beating O'neil Bell
Heavy Weight: I don't think he beats anyone there. He doesn't have the power to really hurt any of them, but they do to him. At around 200 pound you will see his speed decrease, + the extra weight he will be carrying will play a big role in his fittness towards the later rounds 'coz as i said i highly doubt he has the power to stop anyone at Heavy...

People got way way to carried away after he beat Tarver. Tarver was hand picked, over rated and look totaly sh*t and hopkins after loosing 2 fights and thinking it would be his last put on one of those 'special fights' that he wont be able to consistantly do if he comes back. Beating Tarver was a good win for him, but people have to thin about the way he was fighting when he was said to be "p4P king (lol) i mean the fight with Howard easterman? he sucked and that fight went on for 12 long and borring rounds...

Hopkins comes back he either goes back to fighting hand picked fighters, o gets beat badly in pretty much every devision expect for possibly Light Heavy