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| Posted By | Discussion Topic: Trinidad Vs. Hopkins update, Hopkins Views this as a war and continues to insult Trinidad | ||||
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| GonzoStyle | posted on 09-28-2001 @ 1:59 AM |    | |||
| Hanger-On Registered: Jan. 70  | Lol i gotta admit Hopkins may be insane but throwing rice and beans at a rican is funny, haha NEW YORK (AP) -- Don't look to Bernard Hopkins for heartwarming displays of sadness or contemplation right now. And don't look for him to tone down his rhetoric before taking on Felix Trinidad Jr. for the undisputed middleweight championship. ``I'm not in a mourning stage,'' Hopkins said Wednesday. ``I understand what happened at the World Trade Center, but I have to block that out. I'm in a position to be killed or kill.'' He'll put the WBC and IBF belts up against the undefeated Trinidad's WBA title Saturday night at Madison Square Garden in a bout originally scheduled for Sept. 15, and postponed after the terrorist attacks. Both boxers were in New York on Sept. 11, and put off training that day, instead watching TV news reports. The fighters were a study in contrasts at Wednesday's news conference: Hopkins was boastful and brash, wearing a black skullcap with ``WAR'' written in white; his entourage had the same message on black baseball caps. Trinidad was soft-spoken, wearing an azure satin jacket with ``God Bless America'' stitched on the back, and carrying two tiny flags -- one American, one Puerto Rican. Seemingly as interested in outhyping his opponent as outpointing him, Hopkins -- nicknamed ``The Executioner'' -- added to the string of insulting gestures he's hurled at Trinidad. ``Just like any other execution, you're entitled to your last meal,'' Hopkins said. ``I asked my Spanish friends back in Philadelphia what they like to eat.'' With that, Hopkins tossed plastic bags of rice and beans in Trinidad's direction. Hopkins also drew his finger across his neck in a slashing motion. During an outdoor news conference in New York on July 9, Hopkins threw down a Puerto Rican flag. He did that again in San Juan the next day, drawing a hail of bottles and chairs. ``In the ring, you will feel my punches,'' Trinidad said. ``You have to respect us. You were lucky to get two more weeks with your crown.'' The 36-year-old Hopkins is irritated that, although he's been a champion since 1995, he has fought in the shadows of Trinidad, Roy Jones Jr. and Oscar De La Hoya, and young fighters such as the less-experienced Fernando Vargas and David Reid. ``This is the fight that sets me apart as of the great middleweights of the last 10-15 years or longer,'' Hopkins said. ``After this fight, Tito Trinidad and his father are going to break up. It's going to be one of them sad old stories.'' The chance to become the first undisputed middleweight champion since Marvelous Marvin Hagler in the mid-1980s was set up when Hopkins retained the IBF title and won the WBC championship by outpointing Keith Holmes on April 14, and Trinidad won the WBC crown by stopping William Joppy on May 12. It is one of the biggest non-heavyweight championship fights in a decade or more. Organizers said there were 1,500 tickets available, including about 200 returned by people who canceled when the fight was rescheduled. Stepped-up security Saturday will include bomb-sniffing dogs and searches of bags and briefcases. Promoter Don King, who said Trinidad and his father-manager-trainer Felix Sr. are donating $500,000 to a relief fund, eschewed his customary tuxedo. Instead, he wore a blue Fire Department of New York T-shirt under a denim jacket with glittering red-and-white sleeves and a U.S. map drawn on the back. King did not discard, however, his hankering for hyperbole, tossing around phrases such as ``firing line'' and ``thick of battle'' while hyping the fight.  "For all we have and are, for all our children's fate, stand up and take the war, the Hun is at the gate!" --- Rudyard Kipling She-Mail Me Here | ||||
| Cluster F | posted on 09-28-2001 @ 2:07 AM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00 | LMMFAO!!! Im rooting for Hopkins all the way. However, we could see the type of riot in the Garden that we did for the Golota-Bowe fight. | ||||
| GonzoStyle | posted on 09-28-2001 @ 3:00 AM | | |||
| Hanger-On Registered: Jan. 70 | I gotta hand it to hopkins, the fight was already huge but he just makes it all the more interesting. This year is a strange one since we still haven't had a fight of the year. Hamed vs Barrera was one sided. Now in late spetember we have the 1st of 3 possibilities for fight of the year. Trinidad vs Hopkins Tsyzu Vs. Judah Lewis Vs. Rahman I am probably picking Tsyzu Vs. Judah as fight of the year but we will have to wait and see. But i never counted hopkins out but all of his shennanigans are making me love him more. Thrwoing down the rican flag, throwing rice and beans. I can't wait for him to beat up the mariachi band in the ring, lol. "For all we have and are, for all our children's fate, stand up and take the war, the Hun is at the gate!" --- Rudyard Kipling She-Mail Me Here | ||||
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