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UPDATE ON BERNARD HOPKINS’ STATUS

Bernard Hopkins has been released from the California Hospital Medical Center in Los Angeles after being x-rayed and examined by Dr. Sam Thurber, MD who diagnosed Hopkins with a separation of the acromioclavicular (A-C) joint which connects the collar bone and shoulder blade.

BERNARD HOPKINS, WBC & Ring Magazine Light Heavyweight World Champion – “I might have little in my favor, but I will win on Saturday night.”

“Being 46 and sexy with the body of a 25-year-old?  I think that is pretty impressive.

“I can predict I will win this fight.  How I win will come out this Saturday night.

“I want the best Chad Dawson on Saturday night.

“He has to come out in character and not be the Dawson that he has been for many of his fights.  The name doesn’t match the last three or four outcomes.  When you have the name ‘Bad’ and you’re not Michael Jackson, you have to be able to own that.  They call me ‘The Executioner’ for a reason.

“I have no problem putting the title on the line.  This is what I do.

“I don’t know if Dawson is hungry.  He says he is.

 “The past is the past and tomorrow is unknown.  On Saturday night, I want to put another page in the history book of my career.

“If I am still going to compete and be the best in the division, and part of the conversation of the best in boxing, then this fight is the next step.

“Every now and then an athlete comes along and does something different than those before him or her.  It takes guts to be different.

“I don’t go into camp needing to lose 20-30 pounds.  I don’t need to get into physical shape.  I am a health and wellness guy.  This is part of my lifestyle.  It is automatic to me to be ready to fight.  My engine is always running.

“It takes me a round or two until I know exactly what I have to do in a fight.  You can’t overstudy a test, so your natural instincts have to be your guide.  The great athletes always adjust.  I don’t care what sport it is, only an elite athlete can do that.

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BERNARD HOPKINS MEDIA WORKOUT QUOTES

Bernard Hopkins, WBC and Ring Magazine Light Heavyweight World Champion

“I chose to continue to fight and defend what I worked so hard to get.  So why not get all of the benefits of what I’ve been doing for 20-something years and then walk away when it’s time?

“I think that it’ll come down to who is the better fighter. The better fighter, the better person, the better strategist and who wants it the most.

“It really would be gratifying to me and happy for me to sit back in my 60′s and hear commentators say, “This guy is four fights away from beating Bernard Hopkins’ record.

“In today’s world where, unfortunately, most athletes, either don’t stay as focused long enough after they get a taste of what we call success in life, or just run into the wrong match, the wrong person. So I’m going to have fun in the second half of my life.

“Well, Chad Dawson said something that made sense. He’s going to be throwing a lot of punches, but I’m going to be connecting a lot of punches.  He’s going to throw all the punches he wants, but I’m going to be connecting more than he is throwing.

“I’m coming in there with an aggressive game, but a smart game. If people think that the last two fights of my career were the old Bernard Hopkins from the Blue Horizon to Atlantic City days in the early 90′s, then I’m saying that they should watch this fight.

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BERNARD HOPKINS HONORED BY MAYOR OF PHILADELPHIA

Philadelphia, PA- Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter honored newly crowned WBC and Ring Magazine Light Heavyweight World Champion Bernard Hopkins today for his championship win over Jean Pascal which took place May 21.  The mayor presented Hopkins with a Liberty Bell replica and made a proclamation saluting Hopkins and acknowledging his history making accomplishment of becoming the oldest world champion in the history of boxing.

Mayor Michael Nutter (left) and Bernard Hopkins (right) face off in front of the Rocky Statue at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Photo Credit: Maxwell Brown/ City of Philadelphia

Bernard Hopkins poses in front of the Rocky Statue at the Philadelphia Museum of Art following a proclamation made by Mayor Michael Nutter honoring Hopkins.

Photo Credit: Swanson Communications

Bernard Hopkins, WBC and Ring Magazine Light Heavyweight World Champion

“The ‘Rocky’ movies are an inspiration to the blue collar workers of this city.  Rocky used what he had to make the best of it, which is what I had to do.  I played jacks like they were aces and I made something out of nothing.

“Where we are standing right now, is where I train.  It is where I started.

“I have run those steps [of the Philadelphia Museum of Art] for many years, even last month [in preparation for the Pascal fight].

“It means a great deal to me to be honored where I train.  This is where I have come all of my life.

“I lost my first fight at the Blue Horizon in Philadelphia.  I lost a four round fight and I didn’t let that stop me from continuing on in my career.

“I invested in my life…people ask, ‘What is your secret?’  They are waiting for me to say ‘I am that good,’ but I am here because I invested in myself and made a determination not to get caught up in the high life of being a celebrity.

“You have to have good health to have a fighting chance.  You have to treat yourself like a temple.”

Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter

“Let’s give it up for Bernard Hopkins, the new Light Heavyweight World Champion.  He had some challenges as a teenager.  He found himself on the wrong side of the law, but in prison, he found faith in himself and in boxing.  This is the real reason why Bernard Hopkins is a champion.

“The heritage of great boxing in Philadelphia is proudly being carried on by Bernard Hopkins.

“Even more than these accomplishments, his life is a lesson to all of us.  It is never too late to do something great.  It is never too late to change your life.