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Boxing: Bernard Hopkins gets knocked out of the ring..

 
FanAttick 2016-12-18 08:43:50 

Didn't know when to quit

 
Runs 2016-12-18 08:52:30 

In reply to FanAttick

hohoho lol

 
dayne 2016-12-18 09:38:56 

I was shocked last night when I saw he was still fighting, it looks like another sad story developing.

 
Oilah 2016-12-18 09:56:09 

Many greats don't know when to quit. The problem with boxers is that the consequences can be very brutal and not just embarrassing. sad

 
pelon 2016-12-18 11:09:45 

In reply to Oilah


Brilliant career tainted by end of term ego. had such a run 1990 - 2005... just could not let go. Could have stopped when he retained IBF light heavyweight title in 2014..... Why? Money?

Hopkins in 2006: "You're not even in my league! I would never let a white boy beat me. I would never lose against a white person. I couldn't go back to the projects if I let a white boy beat me."

Hopkins 2016: Knocked to fcuk out of a ring by....

 
granite 2016-12-18 11:25:54 

In reply to pelon
Too much ah de white boy stuff.

 
pelon 2016-12-18 11:50:00 

In reply to granite

Agree.