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Bernard Hopkins recently met with Golden Boy about fighting this year in a possible farewell bout.

The talks were preliminary and nothing has been formally set up. But Golden Boy claim Hopkins wants to fight toward the end of 2016.

“He actually met with us a couple months back,” Eric Gomez (Golden Boy) said. “He told me and Oscar, ‘Look, I’m in training. I’m in the gym every day. If the right situation comes up, let me know. I’m interested.’ And we’ve had a couple of phone calls after that.”

Hopefully he's reasonably matched so he can go out with a win. He doesn't need to take on any crazy challenges at this point. He's went above and beyond as far as proving his greatness, Give him someone in the Top 50 or 40 maybe and let the old man school one more schmuck on his way to retirement and the Hall of Fame.

I'm sure I remember him saying the same thing last year, aiming for a June date, not 100% sure though. Hopefully he gets a nice easy fight to bow out on but no doubt he'll challenge himself once again. His longevity is beyond amazing!

gilgamesh wrote:Hopefully he's reasonably matched so he can go out with a win. He doesn't need to take on any crazy challenges at this point. He's went above and beyond as far as proving his greatness, Give him someone in the Top 50 or 40 maybe and let the old man school one more schmuck on his way to retirement and the Hall of Fame.

Would be a fitting way to go out.

Better than seeing RJJ fight on

No top level fighter will take on Hopkins to not get a blame of beating up a 50+ year old who was out of the ring for two years.

Who would be a realistic opponent for him?

Winner of Kovelv vs Ward...or vs that other dude that has the lineal title

gilgamesh wrote:Hopefully he's reasonably matched so he can go out with a win. He doesn't need to take on any crazy challenges at this point. He's went above and beyond as far as proving his greatness, Give him someone in the Top 50 or 40 maybe and let the old man school one more schmuck on his way to retirement and the Hall of Fame.

yes please! and give the dude some money
to go down easy. there is so much cheating
going on anyways, why not do it for a good
cause this time.

bernard deserves a nice and smooth ride
into the hall, though i am afraid he is too
proud to make it real easy.

Maybe an easy payday...RJJ vs Hopkins III

I hope Oscar never finds the "right fight" for him and we never see Hopkins in the ring again.

If he has a "farewell fight" and wins he will convince himself he still has it and want to keep fighting.
Hopkins was never going to go out on a win, if he wins he wants another fight.

boxing_rocks wrote:No top level fighter will take on Hopkins to not get a blame of beating up a 50+ year old who was out of the ring for two years.

Yes, they would.

rivado wrote:Winner of Kovelv vs Ward...or vs that other dude that has the lineal title

Why would Kovalev fight Hopkins again?

Perseus wrote:I hope Oscar never finds the "right fight" for him and we never see Hopkins in the ring again.

If he has a "farewell fight" and wins he will convince himself he still has it and want to keep fighting.
Hopkins was never going to go out on a win, if he wins he wants another fight.

I agree with this. Id say the only reason we saw this last part of Hopkins' career is because of that first Pascal fight. The thing is i feel so blessed to have watched that fight as it happened that I think it would be great to have a fight promoted as his last fight.

Something about the way he fought Kovalev tells me he wants to go out on his shield against a worthy opponent tho...

SFW wrote:Who would be a realistic opponent for him?

Abraham

SaadOffTheDeck wrote:

SFW wrote:Who would be a realistic opponent for him?

Abraham

That was the only name that came to mind, he fits most of the criteria Hopkins needs to make a fight

SFW wrote:

SaadOffTheDeck wrote:

SFW wrote:Who would be a realistic opponent for him?

Abraham

That was the only name that came to mind, he fits most of the criteria Hopkins needs to make a fight

By the way, why is there no decision on Sturm? If he is not DQed, then Sturm vs Abraham would be huge. If he is DQed, then Abraham and Hopkins may want to fight Chudinov for a title instead of fighting each other.

boxing_rocks wrote:

rivado wrote:Winner of Kovelv vs Ward...or vs that other dude that has the lineal title

Why would Kovalev fight Hopkins again?

Why? For a payday but there is the possibility Ward wins after all Krusher/SOG is a 50/50 fight. And Ward vs Hopkins will line up the pockets of the parties involved.

Give it up grampa.

SaadOffTheDeck wrote:

SFW wrote:Who would be a realistic opponent for him?

Abraham

great shout ,

rivado wrote:Maybe an easy payday...RJJ vs Hopkins III

Was wondering how long it would take for someone to come out with it.

If Abraham was interested in fighting Hopkins it would have happened last year.