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Bernard Hopkins Boxing
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An 8x10 Action Photo from the middleweight
great Bernard Hopkins. This Photo is signed by the Executioner
and his opponent Simon Brown. Dual Signed items from actual
fights are very rare and hard to obtain!
Bernard Hopkins
£95.00
1998-01-31 : Simon Brown lost to Bernard Hopkins by TKO in
round 6 of 12
Location: Trump Taj Mahal, Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA
On April 19, 2008, at the Thomas & Mack
Center in Las Vegas, Hopkins lost The Ring light heavyweight
championship to Joe Calzaghe by split decision.[6] Hopkins
got off to a great start by knocking Calzaghe down with
a straight right hand in the first round. Calzaghe wasn't
badly hurt, however. Hopkins mostly threw one punch at a
time and often initiated clinches to prevent Calzaghe from
punching in combinations. The first half of the fight had
lots of hitting and holding, but Calzaghe slowly began to
figure Hopkins out, landing flurries of short quick punches.
In the end, judges Chuck Giampa (116-111) and Ted Gimza
(115-112) scored the fight for Calzaghe, while judge Adalaide
Byrd (114-113) scored the fight for Hopkins.[7]
After the fight, Hopkins was upset with the
official decision and said that he was robbed of a clear
points win. Hopkins said, "I just really feel like
I took the guy to school. I feel like I made him fight my
fight, not his. I wanted him to run into my shots. I think
I made him do that, and I think I made it look pretty easy.
I think I controlled the pace, and I controlled the fight."
