Bernard Hopkins Shows a Lot of Class

**DC Amateur Boxing** · 10-19-2008 05:13 AM

Originally Posted by The Shadow

Well, although I've always been a big fan of Hopkins, I didn't see him winning this fight. I thought that Pavlik would have secured a solid decision victory for himself. I caught the fight
from the second round on, and by the fifth round it was pretty obvious that I was watching something special: Hopkins put on the performance of performances and defined the pace of the fight on his own terms from the opening bell onward. You don't have many opportunities to witness something like that. It was a really special night for the sport of sports.

I am with you. I would have loved to see BHop win, but I wouldn't have take the 4:1 odds either. But I'm glad he proved me wrong and this was really a great night for boxing in general. I don't know how we can top that either, but if someone comes along with another $3 Million plus, you better believe he will try.

**Master** · 10-19-2008 03:50 PM

Hopkins should retire and train Pavlik.

**zupg** · 10-19-2008 06:26 PM

Never been a huge fan of Hopkins, but always respected what he did. And being a huge Pavlik fan, I have to give Bhop all respect in the world. He showed great respect for Kelly after and I hope Kelly was listening cuz Bernard was being truthful to him. Guess we will have to wait and see. But congrats to Bhop for that performance and class.

**armin** · 10-20-2008 02:36 AM

I do think bhop says lots of shit that he doesn't mean or does just for publicity but I think what he said to kelly he really meant. I mean you got to remember bhop isn't really someone blessed with natural boxing finesse necessarily, he's a guy who learned the trade as he went along, getting better as he got older. Maybe, just maybe bhop saw a little bit of himself in kelly, and as someone said hop should retire and become a trainer I think he'd be rather good at it. As for kelly dam stay at 160 and don't go near crafty boxers for a few years...

**Youngblood** · 10-20-2008 04:09 AM

I had ringsides seats for this fight. Not really...was fighting myself out of town and the venue had this fight on a big screen and it started just as my fight ended. All the fans poured around the big TV and we all watched it, which was completely awesome.

It felt like ringside, being there with fans alike, and having a seat with the smell of the gym in the air, and what a display it was. I won't deny I had my chips on Pavlik to win, but it also wouldn't of surprised me to see BHop pull it out. And as we know now, he did more then that.

I'd like anyone to try and make an arguement now about why we should get rid of the older fighters to make way for the new. How could we ever do such a thing? We simply cannot, and Bernard is now the reasoning and arguement for it. We never know when we might see something great.

And great was what Bernard Hopkins performance was last night.