Mosley, Hopkins, Marquez, DiBella, Duva Elected To Boxing Hall Of Fame

12/07/201912/06/2019 Boxing Hall of Fame

Boxers Bernard Hopkins, Juan Manuel Marquez, Shane Mosley, Barbara Buttrick, Christy Martin & Lucia Rijker Elected To Int’l Boxing Hall Of Fame – Lou DiBella, Kathy Duva, Dan Goossen, Bernard Fernandez and Thomas Hauser to also enter Hall of Fame

The International Boxing Hall of Fame and Museum announced today the members of the Class of 2020.

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Bernard Hopkins vs. Roy Jones Jr. III?

10/23/2019 James Slater

Though modern greats Bernard Hopkins and Roy Jones Junior are all even at 1-1, no-one is calling for a deciding rubber-match.

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Nothing But Special Fighters On The 2020 Hall Of Fame Ballot

10/03/201910/02/2019 James Slater

Hopkins, Marquez, Mosley, Froch, Corrales, Vazquez, Bradley, Tarver and more

As per a piece from Dan Rafael of ESPN.com, the names on the 2020 Hall of Fame ballot have been released – and what a massive bunch of special fighters the 200 or so people who will have the hard task of voting for just five fighters on the list have to choose from.

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15 Years Ago: Bernard Hopkins Scores His Final Career KO At The Expense Of Oscar De La Hoya

09/18/2019 James Slater

“It doesn’t get any bigger than this,” said Oscar De La Hoya. “It’s History,” boasted the fight poster.

It was 15 years ago today inside a sold-out MGM Grand in Las Vegas that De La Hoya made the quite audacious challenge of reigning middleweight king Bernard Hopkins.

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Video: Bernard Hopkins & The 2001 Middleweight Tournament

01/20/2019 Rummys Corner

After Felix Trinidad scored a dramatic twelfth round stoppage victory in an absolute war against Fernando Vargas, Tito was on top of the boxing world.

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Gennady Golovkin v Bernard Hopkins

09/15/201809/14/2018 James Slater

As fight fans are aware, world middleweight king Gennady Golovkin will break the world record of consecutive world title retentions at 160 pounds if he can defeat arch-rival Canelo Alvarez tomorrow night in Las Vegas.

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Gennady Golovkin will equal Bernard Hopkins’ record if he wins tonight…

05/05/2018 James Slater

….but is there any debate over who is the greater fighter?

(Photo: Ed Mulholland / HBO) As fight fans are aware, world middleweight king Gennady Golovkin will equal the world record of consecutive world title retentions at 160 pounds if he comes through against Vanes Martirosyan tonight in Carson, California.

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Ten Years On: Calzaghe-Hopkins – who really won?

04/21/201804/20/2018 James Slater

It was no Sugar Ray Leonard-Marvelous Marvin Hagler, it was not even a Nigel Benn-Chris Eubank II – but the big fight that took place a decade ago today caused quite a stir and it generated quite a debate all the same; and this was down to the scoring of the fight.

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Hopkins says Canelo-Golovkin rematch will be Ward-Kovalev 2 reincarnated

10/04/201710/03/2017 Rob Smith

Bernard Hopkins of Golden Boy says the rematch between Saul Canelo Alvarez and Gennady “GGG” Golovkin will be a “reincarnation of the Andre “SOG” Ward vs.

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Hopkins-Smith: A Punch is Just a Fast Push or Shove

12/20/2016 Paul Strauss

Maybe Bernard “The Executioner/Alien” Hopkins (58-8-2, 32 KOs) was right when he said Joe “The Beast” Smith Jr. (23-1-0, 19 KOs) pushed him out of the ring at The Forum, Inglewood, CA.

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