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Dwindling Options of Bernard Hopkins: Is the Execution Over?
By Gene Ramirez-May 11, 2009
There have been many great fights for both former Middleweight Champions
Bernard Hopkins and Felix Trinidad.
Hopkins has been the ageless wonder for some time now and I have learned
first hand that it is never smart to bet against “The Executioner.” Trinidad
is a Puerto Rican icon who even today is still swarmed wherever he goes in
his country. Both fighters gave us so many great memories in the ring and on
one night, September 29th, 2001, they came together and since then neither
fighters’ career was ever the same.
It is a common theme in boxing as we often see one fighter start the
downward journey towards the end of his career and at that exact same apex
we see the other fighter start his assent towards better things. The strange
thing is that it was Trinidad, the younger fighter, who started his downward
descent and Hopkins, the older fighter who actually used the fight to propel
himself to stardom and better things.
Now close to 8 years later we are faced with the prospect of a rematch of
that very fight. The first thing that comes to mind when I think of another
matchup between these two great legends of the ring is:
Why?
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***Courtesy of
www.ringsidereport.com
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