Bernard Hopkins appeared on the popular New York-based “The Breakfast Club” radio program on Thursday, chatting with our man Charlamagne.
He talks aging and how that affects a fighter, something which is in the news now, what with Manny Pacquiao being life and death with rugged but ragged Jeff Horn last week.
Hopkins stepped away, for good, we assume, after getting stopped by Joe Smith Jr; the Long Islander KO’d Bernard last December, and he returns to the Forum in Inglewood, CA on Saturday, July 15 live on HBO at 9:50 p.m. ET/PT, versus Sullivan Barrera.
“In better shape than a lot of these young kids out here,” said Charlamagne.
Hopkins had the last word. He always does…Except in the sphere of aging and combat. The rare animal is able to step away on a high note. The temptation, to make those outsized paydays, to hear the masses clap for you and shout your name, and to prove that you are as good as you were, is too strong a tug for most.