Boxing Breakfast: Bernard Hopkins Goes for History Tonight
by Scott Christ on May 21, 2011 5:00 AM EDT
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Pascal vs Hopkins II Link Roundup
- My audio preview, during this week's Bad Left Hook Radio.
- Odds for Pascal vs Hopkins.
- Odds for Dawson vs Diaconu.
- Hopkins to wear Flyers gear in the home of the Montreal Canadiens.
- Analysis of Hopkins' last five fights.
- The highlight of the entire promotion: The full, 12-minute HBO Face Off with Hopkins and Pascal going nuts.
Last Night
- Friday Night Fights had a terrible main event, as Anges Adjaho stank his way out of any further TV dates with an awful non-performance against Joel Julio. Julio won the easy ten-round decision, followed by Adjaho pretending to be surprised. Joe Tessitore hilariously lost it. Sadam Ali won in the co-feature.
- Solo Boxeo Tecate had what was reported as a very good main event, won by Christopher Martin over Charles Huerta. Ronny Rios won in the co-feature.
- Ray Edwards of the Vikings was unimpressive in his pro boxing debut, but won the four-rounder.
- Sergey Rabchenko stayed undefeated with a 12-round decision win over Bradley Pryce in Wales.
Today and Tonight
- We'll have live results and coverage of the Nathan Cleverly vs Aleksy Kuziemski / James DeGale vs George Groves card from the UK at 3 p.m. EDT.
- We'll also have live results of the Jean Pascal vs Bernard Hopkins II / Chad Dawson vs Adrian Diaconu double-header on HBO at 10 p.m. EDT.
- Roy Jones Jr fights Denis Lebedev in Moscow. Here's a photo from the weigh-in.
After the jump: Your Song of the Day!
Song(s) of the Day
There is that chance, however small you think it might be, that tonight will be the last fight of Bernard Hopkins' career. I really don't know why he'd come back if he lost without controversy. So we'll do a double today of Philly soul.
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The RJJ undercard has started, and Nate Campbell is winning his fight early.
by The Boxer Rebellion on May 21, 2011 9:45 AM EDT via mobile reply actions
Admittedly, it is against some guy named Sherzod Nazarov, who I know zilch about.
by The Boxer Rebellion on May 21, 2011 9:46 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
I can only assume that SC musta forgot that this was on.
Or, he’s come to his senses and isn’t interested in this macabre, awful event.
I hate myself right now. 9 am to early to start drinking?
by The Boxer Rebellion on May 21, 2011 10:19 AM EDT via mobile reply actions
Can you post the RJJ result when it comes up?
I’ve got all different sorts of bets on Lebedev – numerous unders, the KO, the straight win, stoppage in rounds 1-3 – so I’m quite anxious to make sure I didn’t musta forgot and Roy shows a Heart of a Champion and wins. Bleh.
"Occasionally, there is a boxing match that, in its demonstration of skill, courage, intelligence, hope, seems to redeem the sport - almost. Perhaps boxing has always been a sport in crisis, a sport of crisis."
by Oli Goldstein on May 21, 2011 10:31 AM EDT up reply actions
cheers
"Occasionally, there is a boxing match that, in its demonstration of skill, courage, intelligence, hope, seems to redeem the sport - almost. Perhaps boxing has always been a sport in crisis, a sport of crisis."
by Oli Goldstein on May 21, 2011 10:34 AM EDT up reply actions
Not the best job by Smoger. Lampley once said on a podcast that he thinks Smoger at times lets his reputation get to him and allows unnecessary punishment to occur, and this fight looked like an example of that.
Nah, that was Mercante Jr, who's just a moron.
"Occasionally, there is a boxing match that, in its demonstration of skill, courage, intelligence, hope, seems to redeem the sport - almost. Perhaps boxing has always been a sport in crisis, a sport of crisis."
by Oli Goldstein on May 21, 2011 10:44 AM EDT up reply actions
Did he look good?
"Occasionally, there is a boxing match that, in its demonstration of skill, courage, intelligence, hope, seems to redeem the sport - almost. Perhaps boxing has always been a sport in crisis, a sport of crisis."
by Oli Goldstein on May 21, 2011 10:44 AM EDT up reply actions
As the fight gets closer, I am seriously debating whether Roy may just take a dive here. This is what being a RJJ has come to.
by The Boxer Rebellion on May 21, 2011 10:45 AM EDT reply actions
In some ways, I kind of hope the rapture happens today after participating in this.
As a poster on another site just wrote: what is more likely today? Rapture, or RJJ win?
by The Boxer Rebellion on May 21, 2011 10:47 AM EDT reply actions
Alexander Bakhtin vs Jose Angel Beranza next, then Roy.
by The Boxer Rebellion on May 21, 2011 10:52 AM EDT reply actions
Anyone know if Smoger's taking the main event?
Hopefully he won’t let it drag on and ends Roy’s misery early.
"Occasionally, there is a boxing match that, in its demonstration of skill, courage, intelligence, hope, seems to redeem the sport - almost. Perhaps boxing has always been a sport in crisis, a sport of crisis."
Roy apparently listening to his new song while warming up.
by The Boxer Rebellion on May 21, 2011 11:22 AM EDT reply actions
lol
Dan Tucker around?
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ok I’m going to get a main event thread up since that hasn’t happened
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