Happy 48th Birthday to Bernard Hopkins!!! Wishing you many more champ!
Hopkins officially announced today that on March 9th, he will meet Tavoris Cloud (24-0, 19 KOs), a 31-year-old from Florida, at Barclays Center in Brooklyn. More details after the jump…
According to ESPN:
Bernard Hopkins has earned a cushy retirement after 24 years as a professional fighter and 62 bouts. But the man is nothing if not supremely determined to prove to the world that a forty-something man can still compete at a world-class level in the ring.
At a news conference held at Barclays, a cheesecake from Junior’s was wheeled out, presented to the master pugilist, and Hopkins blew out the candles. He then cut up a slice, and instead of gobbling a morsel, brought it over to Cloud. It was symbolic of the willpower which has served him so well to this point, and of the mind games he has mastered.
“Age is not an enemy to me,” Hopkins told the press, after turning his nose up at the cake.
He indulged in some of those mind games, telling Cloud that he is the last hope for Don King, and promising to retire King, after beating Cloud. “You’re the last horse, brother,” he told Cloud. “There’s no stable.”
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