Bernard Hopkins

It's been 17 years since Roy Jones Jr. and Bernard Hopkins met in the ring, and they face off again tonight at 6pm PST for a re-match in Las Vegas at Mandalay Bay. Their fight almost 2 decades ago resulted in a 12-round win for Jones, giving him his first world title, according to TheBoxingBulletin.com. Now, belts don't really matter at all, but pride is on the line. These guys are way past their prime, Jones is 41 and Hopkins is 45. But, in their heyday, they were both greats. Hopkins...Read Full Story

Go to menus » posted on Tuesday, May 1st, 2012 at 1:39 am by admin   Time waits for no man. It’s a lesson Bernard Hopkins learned early in life, decades before Saturday’s uncontroversial loss to Chad Dawson that’s since prompted calls for the 47-year-old to retire. But retire he shouldn’t. And won’t. That Hopkins is still an exceptionally durable world class athlete, that he’s never been beaten up, that he’s never been cut in a fight, that he stays in fighting shape 365 days a year and...Read Full Story

Calzaghe, a southpaw, began boxing at age nine.In more than 12 amateur contests, he won four schoolboy ABA titles, followed by three consecutive senior British ABA titles (British Championships) between 1990 and 1993. This made him only the second boxer in history to win in welter, light-middleweight and middleweight divisions. He reportedly had an amateur record of 110–10. Calzaghe received his last defeats at the hands of Michael Smyth in the 1990 Welsh ABA final and Romanian amateur Adrian...Read Full Story

Roy Jones Jr says he’ll become the first fighter to stop Bernard Hopkins when the veteran pair meet for the second time in Las Vegas next month. Jones-Hopkins II comes almost 17 years after the duo’s first meeting, a middleweight world-title fight won on points by Jones. This time the former four-weight world champion has vowed to end the fight early when the pair, who now have a combined age of 86, head into the ring at the Mandalay Bay Events Center. “You are going to see the same thing...Read Full Story

Jermain Taylor’s middleweight title defence against Cory Spinks is HBO’s main event but the fight everyone is looking forward to seeing on Saturday is the scheduled 12-round elimination match between the 160-pound division’s two biggest punchers, Edison "Pantera" Miranda and Kelly Pavlik. This is the way they did it in the old days, two young, dangerous fighters meeting to decide which one...Full Story.The middleweight division has an exciting new contender in Edison Miranda, who showed he...Read Full Story