Hopkins and Ornelas on weight
by Scott Christ on Dec 1, 2009 6:22 PM EST
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Bernard Hopkins weighed in at the light heavyweight limit of 175 pounds and Enrique Ornelas was under at 173 1/2 for tomorrow night's fight in Philadelphia, live on Versus at 8pm ET.
Hopkins, 44, is making his first in-ring appearance since dismantling middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik last October. It's a tune-up fight for "The Executioner," who looks to rematch Roy Jones Jr. in spring 2010 should both win their Wednesday fights.
The 29-year old Ornelas last fought in July, knocking out Roberto Baro at Club Nokia in Los Angeles. Before that, he was last seen losing a tight, spirited decision against Marco Antonio Rubio on the Pavlik-Hopkins undercard. Like his brother Librado Andrade, Ornelas is double tough, a solid puncher, and will probably bring the fight forward to Hopkins, but should in the end wind up outclassed. But crazier things have happened than 44-year olds getting old in a fight.
We'll have a full preview of Hopkins-Ornelas either late tonight or early tomorrow.
Reminder: The Green-Jones fight will be live in Australia at about 3am ET Wednesday morning, so if you want to avoid spoilers, probably avoid the major boxing news sites, as they generally just run the headlines without any spoiler warnings on tape delayed fights such as this one. Bad Left Hook will be spoiler-free as we await the U.S. telecast on Versus tomorrow evening. Anyone posting spoilers of the Green-Jones fight will be banned.
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Have they announced in which order the fights will be shown?
I also wonder what kind of fight Hopkins will fight if Jones loses. I’m not saying he will lose or anything, but he would have to be pretty disappointed that Roy lost and their fight was off.
Haven’t heard which goes first, but I’m kind of guessing Green-Jones opens. I could be totally wrong though.
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How young can Hopkins look vs a handpicked guy?
I like 0.7 Andrade but god bless him, he just doesn’t have the talent to pull the upset unless Hopkins gets really old, really fast within in the fight…
"Boxing is dirty," said Casamayor. " The day I’m not ready to be a dirty fighter is the day I don’t fight anymore because it will mean that I have no heart for it anymore."
ornelas will make this a war!
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by battle axe of doom on Dec 1, 2009 11:59 PM EST reply actions
Could be an interesting fight..
I think BHop will come out on top but I’m pretty sure being 30 or so years old won’t hurt Ornelas’ case.
Bhop to take the decision but I expect Ornelas to make it a hard fought victory for him.
I guess I'll differ here
At 173, I expect Ornelas to look sluggish. Even if Hopkins is also sluggish, the difference in class will show. There’s no way Ornelas could take a fight this quickly, come in 14 pounds over his normal weight, and not just look like a blown up middleweight.
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