Re: Here's the Hopkins 'White Boy' incident
Just imagine, if you will, ..... it's the build up to the eagerly awaited Mayweather-Hatton superfight, everybody is pumped up and excited.
Joe Calzaghe has just signed up for one of the final fights in his stellar career, after 20-odd defences and unifying the super-middles he wants to go out in a blaze of glory by moving up a weight to fight the bigger light-heavyweight champion, the magnificent Bernard Hopkins.
Joe is asked, live on air, what his motivation will be ...... he pauses, considering his words and says "I would never let a black boy beat me. You can print that" He repeats it five times.
Calzaghe's career and legacy would be immediately ruined by that one sentence. It would be front and back page news and would most likely make the TV news as well ...... Calzaghe's previous achievements and career would be absolutely crushed by that one racist comment. He would forever be remembered as a racist. Oh yes, excuses would be made, it would have been a heat of the moment thing, its because he's Welsh, it's the Italian in him etc etc - but make no mistake, that one comment would have irreparably tarnished his career and persons for ever.
But Hopkins has already said that a white boy would never beat him. It is the sign of a weak man to make a big deal out of race, and if Hopkins really thought that he needed to pull out the race card to sell tickets for this fight, then he has little appreciation of his standing within the sport or indeed of the history of ther sport he has graced for so many years.
The only thing that has saved Hopkins from rightful censure and ruin is the political correctness that stains both the US and Britain.
I admire Hopkins for his brilliant achievements and accomplishments inside and outside the ring ....... but my admiration for him as a human being has now sunk to a considerable low.
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