Hopkins turned down a fight with Kessler

[Kirkland Laing]

I don't believe anything that comes out the Kessler camp

Not like you to be cynical about statements made by European boxers! After all, doesn't the phrase to "Welsh" on a deal mean to follow it through exactly as agreed .

I actually like Kessler. But ever since the Miranda debacle, in which he punked out of a very win able fight I don't believe him.

How do you know it wasn't his promoter who sctratched the fight?

[Violent Demise]

Not like you to be cynical about statements made by European boxers! After all, doesn't the phrase to "Welsh" on a deal mean to follow it through exactly as agreed .

I actually like Kessler. But ever since the Miranda debacle, in which he punked out of a very win able fight I don't believe him.

How do you know it wasn't his promoter who sctratched the fight?

Show Time which has no ties to either Miranda or Kessler pretty much said it was Kessler. I see no reason they would lie

[Bx730NY]

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I would've liked to see that fight. At first glance I assumed Hopkins would win it, but Kessler is a very good boxer in his own right and he could easily outwork Hopkins.

He doesn't wanna lose to another "white boy"

[Fenster]

This is actually old news from Feb/March time.

As for $4million not being a good offer... that amount would be one of his best ever purses, I think only against Oscar, Tarver and Calzaghe would he have bettered it. He got $3m for both Winky and Pavlik.

Hopkins has NEVER been a good seller. He just did a pathetic 190,000 PPVs with Pavlik. You don't get Oscar/Hatton/Mayweather money with numbers like that.

There are no huge money fights left for him.

Dawson is a complete nobody outside the hardcore - proven by his pathetic numbers with Tarver. Adamek was offered peanuts so Hopkins could make a decent wedge. His last BIG money fight was Jones, which was verbally agreed, apparently, but obviously Calzaghe ruined it.

[HattonTheHammer]

This is actually old news from Feb/March time.

As for $4million not being a good offer... that amount would be one of his best ever purses, I think only against Oscar, Tarver and Calzaghe would he have bettered it. He got $3m for both Winky and Pavlik.

Hopkins has NEVER been a good seller. He just did a pathetic 190,000 PPVs with Pavlik. You don't get Oscar/Hatton/Mayweather money with numbers like that.

There are no huge money fights left for him.

Dawson is a complete nobody outside the hardcore - proven by his pathetic numbers with Tarver. Adamek was offered peanuts so Hopkins could make a decent wedge. His last BIG money fight was Jones, which was verbally agreed, apparently, but obviously Calzaghe ruined it.

To be fair to bhop the marketing for the pavlik fight was pretty lame

He got huge ppv buys for the ODLH fight and despite his defensive technique even at 44 is one of the most marketable fighters out there.

Adamek/Dawson/Froch/kessler - all would be excellent fights and hopkins would probably win all of the above.

[Fenster]

This is actually old news from Feb/March time.

As for $4million not being a good offer... that amount would be one of his best ever purses, I think only against Oscar, Tarver and Calzaghe would he have bettered it. He got $3m for both Winky and Pavlik.

Hopkins has NEVER been a good seller. He just did a pathetic 190,000 PPVs with Pavlik. You don't get Oscar/Hatton/Mayweather money with numbers like that.

There are no huge money fights left for him.

Dawson is a complete nobody outside the hardcore - proven by his pathetic numbers with Tarver. Adamek was offered peanuts so Hopkins could make a decent wedge. His last BIG money fight was Jones, which was verbally agreed, apparently, but obviously Calzaghe ruined it.

To be fair to bhop the marketing for the pavlik fight was pretty lame

He got huge ppv buys for the ODLH fight and despite his defensive technique even at 44 is one of the most marketable fighters out there.

Adamek/Dawson/Froch/kessler - all would be excellent fights and hopkins would probably win all of the above.

Don't be silly.. everyone gets huge PPV numbers when fighting Oscar. Mayorga wasn't too far short of the Hopkins number. Since then Hopkins hasn't even come close to half the amout he aided Oscar getting.