The controversy was that Chad Dawson thought he was in an MMA fight and not a boxing match.
BERNARD HOPKINSI got knocked down. Anybody could be knocked down, anybody can be knocked out, but it’s not what happened, but what happens next.
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I’m lining up my troops to go to battle with. Tarver is the man at light heavyweight. He has the credibility of the fans and media, and that’s what counts. That’s why I am taking this risk, but I am taking it by preparing myself with good people.
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I must destroy everybody that comes in front of me. I must execute them and I must do it in grand style. I must slay Robert Allen like I must slay De La Hoya or anybody else that steps in that ring.
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Smokey Wilson was like my Gandhi. If I had run into somebody else in prison, with a different set of values, the world might have never known one of the greatest boxing talents ever to come out of Philadelphia.
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The NBA has a voice that’s why they have a lockout. The NFL has a voice that’s why they had a lockout. Boxing is the only sport that’s individually represented the individual people – Managers, Promoters and Boxers.
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If you don’t know your own value, somebody will tell you your value, and it’ll be less than you’re worth.
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The powers that be don’t want athletes or boxers to become as smart as they are.
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Did you hear what this idiot just said!? He said it’s not about the W…It’s everything about the W with me!
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I wouldn’t wanna fight me, because I know it wouldn’t be a good outcome for both.
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There’s always a chance you will see something new in a fight. Especially in boxing.
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This fight isn’t about boxing, it’s something deeper than that.
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I was made to be where I’m at. I just had to go through some challenges, so that I can educate others later.
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I really didn’t care. I’d do something to somebody and walk in front of them the next day like it never happened. I had very very low value on my own life.
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I have the philosophy that I’m different. I have the body, the well-being and the experience. Now the teacher gets to show the student that he’s worthy of the lesson. Let me show him through experience.
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If I’m in a situation where Duane Ford is one of the judges, I have to pick it up.
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I’ve got a history of frustrating guys and making them angry.
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