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Bernard Hopkins has glasses, thus he is smart. Like Daria. (Photo by Patrick McDermott/Getty Images)
On Tuesday, we talked about light heavyweight champion Bernard Hopkins and former champ Antonio Tarver going at one another on Twitter and boxing radio, and tonight the two forty-somethings are back to it.
Here's where Hopkins started (all (sic) obviously):
(1) I been n the ring with the chads. The kid isnt mental tough enuff to beat me.. Y'all seen how he was acting after he thou he won (2) Sad fought glenn i stopped him when he was 34-0, beat tony so bad he was askin buddy wht to do keep frm getting ko'd
Hopkins has said repeatedly over the years that he was beating Tarver ("Tony") so badly in their 2006 fight that Tarver was asking Buddy McGirt how to simply not be knocked out. Tarver disputed this once he read the tweets.
Here's where Tarver answered:
(1) Bhop on my worse night you could ko nothing, and all them fighters you mention in rematchs one name was missing on that list. (2) all i ask is for you to keep my name out your mouth but i guess you need to in order to feel validated. (3) if Chad take heed to what i said you lose bad... hold, grab, and rabbit punch that's your style and you call that fighting
Hopkins, 47, and Tarver, 43, are having quite the little rivalry here. Hopkins is set to rematch Chad Dawson on April 28 (more on that and Hopkins' record in rematches on Saturday), and Tarver is -- well, he's semi-active as a fighter, and won his last fight really impressively over Danny Green, but his No. 1 job is now working for Showtime as an analyst.
Hopefully, there's no chance these two hook up for a rematch in the future. No thank you. If they could confine this to Twitter or perhaps a Faceoff-style interview where they just yell at each other but it leads to no ring action, that would be fine.
0 recs | 10 comments
Throw in alittle trash talk from James Toney and this could turn into some funny stuff. LOL
PhinsAllDay - January 28, 2012 via mobile
Why is he trash talking Glen Johnson?
RyanSexton - January 28, 2012
I think that Hopkins is saying that he beat a younger Glen Johnson, who had lost about 8-9 fights by the time he beat Tarver. That doesn’t really mean much, though the fact that Hopkins stopped Johnson might mean something.
On the whole I am really enjoying this back and forth. Harmless legacy-bashing between two old boxers.
Eoin_not_ian - January 28, 2012
It makes me feel young again.
DrRck - January 28, 2012
DISGUSTING. ENOUGH TO MAKE OLD SCHOOL FIGHTERS WIGGLE IN THEIR GRAVES.
Boss Man - January 28, 2012
What happened to the old days, when aging fighters retired and started real estate businesses or fast food franchises?
DrRck - January 28, 2012
Say what you will, but Jack Dempsey and Muhammad Ali would have been terrors on Twitter, just to name a few. It’s not strictly a matter of old school/new school sensibilities: fighters may lose fights, but they can never truly lose the curse of thinking about them.
El Destruyo - January 28, 2012
Frankly, I don’t really understand how any fighter who has had any degree of success can just walk away from it, and I have to wonder if this tends to happen to anyone who has had success in anything.
At the University where I work, I see former faculty who retired decades ago: they show up every day, go to the library, wander around campus from building to building, and then eventually stagger home.
I can’t imagine what it would have been like if the eras of Ali and Twitter had coincided.
DrRck - January 28, 2012
LMFAO
Boss Man - January 28, 2012
or became collevctros for the mob :twisted:
Boss Man - January 28, 2012
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