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Bernard Hopkins

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Bernard’s thoughts about Chad Dawson bringing in Winky Wright to help him train for the fight: “That’s like hiring a guy that failed his driving test to teach you how to drive.”

Topics: Fighting this Saturday in Los Angeles against Chad Dawson | Fight week | Very motivated to fight | Dawson bringing in Winky Wright | Home in Philadelphia | I'm we got in Jack City | The Eagles problems | The Eagles need to bounce back quickly | Mental toughness is his biggest weapon | Discipline | Only as good as my last fight | What’s the payoff? | Cheesecake is my weakness | When I’m done I want a piece of Cheesecake at the press conference | Haven’t had a knockout since Oscar De La Hoya | His undercard | Dewey Bozella story | Bozella had a chance to leave Jail if he confessed to a crime he did not commit | What’s after boxing? | Working on ESPN Friday Night fights |

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Bernard was asked if he would have ended the fight the way Floyd Mayweather Jr. did against Victor Ortiz: “Absolutely.”

Topics: Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Victor Ortiz | Would have absolutely did what Floyd did | Inexperienced boxing by Ortiz | You have to protect yourself at all times | Floyd’s punch was a sucker punch for sure | Floyd went street on Ortiz | Element of Sportsmanship? | The Real OG’s | Floyd’s lucky he didn’t get cut from the Ortiz head butt | Ortiz looking for a way out of that fight? | Bernard fighting Felix Trinidad | Chad Dawson | Bernard is going to take the bullets out of Chad’s gun | Working on Chad’s head | Heard Dawson hired Winky Wright | Fighting Trinidad two weeks after 9/11

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Bernard on Jean Pascal: “He hurt my legacy by saying I was a cheat.”

Topics: Rank this accomplishment | Beating Jean Pascal | Becoming the oldest World Champion ever | Staying healthy for all these years | Taking chances during this fight | Wanting to fight Pascal | Pascal calling Hopkins out | Maybe Pascal saw his sloppy fight against Jones Jr. and thought he could win | He’s going to come to the Jim Rome Show and call it quits | Chad Dawson is next | Going to knock out Dawson | Pascal saying Hopkins used performance enhancing drugs | There will be more with Pascal | Pascal selling shirts saying “Take the Test” | I need to check Pascal | Pascal hurt my legacy by questioning him about PED’s | Pascal hurt my credibility | Talk about me anyway you want but don’t call me a cheat | Roy Jones Jr. | As you get older in this game basic skills become survival | Jones Jr. has fought way past the time he’s supposed too | Roy’s fighting off of residue |

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Bernard’s thoughts on his light heavyweight championship rematch with Jean Pascal: “On May 21st, I’m going to take all this energy and beat him down so he will never fight again.”

Topics: He’s burning right now | Jean Pascal demanding Bernard to take a blood test | He’s scared | I’m a veteran fighter and promoter | Had a debate with Pascal | Jean thinks he knows | Jean is saying he cheated | Jean is being disrespectful for every thing I have accomplished | His lifestyle | Pascal challenging all of the hard work he has put in | His psychological warfare in the past compared to Pascal’s recent talking | Don’t be surprised if Pascal dies in the ring | I’m going to take this energy and beat him down so he will never fight again | Pascal questioning his life | Winning multiple titles | He continues to fight because he’s a risk taker | Has a chance to make history |

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Topics: Physical health at age 45 | 60% good clean living, the rest genetics | Life of a professional fighter | Miserable? | Not denying the risk | “Workman’s comp” | Reason for the fight | Why the fans will come to the fight | Really having something personal at stake | 60 – 40 incentive | Taking 17 years to come to the split | Roy not the same fighter | Why waste time with the fight? | Making his case for the fight! | More argument for the fight | Love for boxing | Rome needs to buy the tickets or else! | Bernard should be thanking Jim.

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