THE LAST STAND: BERNARD HOPKINS VOWS THAT THE EXECUTIONER WILL BE ON DISPLAY AGAINST JOE SMITH JR.
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Yes..did he say it with malice or just being honest?Did he really have to say dude was in a diaperhe had a fukking stroke man
but came out foul..
krackdagawd
Inspire.
either way it was dead wrong.
Hopkins-Smith Averaged 934K Viewers; Peaks at 1.035 Million - Boxing News
Hopkins-Smith Averaged 934K Viewers; Peaks at 1.035 Million
By Keith Idec
Bernard Hopkins' farewell fight against Joe Smith Jr. drew an average of 934,000 viewers for HBO on Saturday night, according to figures released Tuesday by Nielsen Media Research.
The future Hall-of-Fame fighter's eighth-round technical knockout loss peaked at 1,035,000 viewers during that eighth and final round, which ended with Smith (23-1, 19 KOs) knocking Hopkins (55-8-2, 32 KOs, 2 NC) out of the ring and left him flat on his back, unable to get back in the ring within the allowable 20 seconds.
The last fight of the former undisputed light heavyweight and middleweight champion's 28-year pro career headlined a three-fight HBO "World Championship Boxing" tripleheader from The Forum in Inglewood, California.
Viewership for the first two bouts HBO broadcast typically was lower than that of the main event.
An average of 644,000 viewers watched featherweight contender Joseph Diaz Jr. (23-0, 13 KOs) out-point Mexico's Horacio Garcia (30-2-1, 22 KOs) in their 10-round fight. A peak audience of 707,000 viewers watched the Diaz-Garcia bout, which was controlled by the emerging 2012 American Olympian from Downey, California.
The opener of the tripleheader, Oleksandr Usyk's ninth-round stoppage of Thabiso Mchunu, was watched by an average of 560,000 viewers and peaked at 645,000. Ukraine's Usyk (11-0, 10 KOs) dropped Mchunu (17-3, 11 KOs) three times on his way to winning by technical knockout and defending his WBO world cruiserweight title.
The tripleheader topped by Hopkins-Smith did a better overall rating than HBO's "World Championship Boxing" main event the previous Saturday.
That December 10 fight, Terence Crawford's eight-round domination of overmatched John Molina Jr. in Omaha, Nebraska, drew an average viewership of 806,000 and peaked at 871,000.
But that telecast went head-to-head with a "Showtime Championship Boxing" broadcast that featured Abner Mares' unanimous-decision defeat of Jesus Cuellar from USC's Galen Center in Los Angeles. The Mares-Cuellar clash averaged 327,000 viewers and peaked at 377,000.
Hopkins' previous performance on HBO, a 12-round unanimous-decision defeat to then-light heavyweight champion Sergey Kovalev in November 2014, was watched by more people than the Hopkins-Smith match.
An average of 1,328,000 viewers watched Kovalev dominate Hopkins. Russia's Kovalev (30-1-1, 26 KOs) was a much more proven fighter than Smith, however, while Hopkins was two years younger and coming off successive victories over Beibut Shumenov, Karo Murat and Tavoris Cloud.
reservoirdogs
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krackdagawd
Inspire.
I love BHop to death in the ring but karma is some real shyt....talk about a nikka who helped make you who you are who had a stroke and the fukkery with Bouie Fisher
I didn't want his career to end like this but how you treat dudes out there in the world can come back at you man.
I didn't want his career to end like this but how you treat dudes out there in the world can come back at you man.
BlackManLiveFromLondon
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Ironic this was the same man saying hes retiring cause noones laughing at him anymore.. only for him to get knocked out and become the laughing stock
yes sir which is why i didn't feel one bit bad with the way his last fight ended..I love BHop to death in the ring but karma is some real shyt....talk about a nikka who helped make you who you are who had a stroke and the fukkery with Bouie Fisher
I didn't want his career to end like this but how you treat dudes out there in the world can come back at you man.
i cried when mike ended his career against mcbride..
Hops had a great career..i hope he doesn't look at the smith fight at his important or something pushing him to fight again?
There's no Business like Show Business..when 1 million people watches your as getting knocked out from the ring live
LMAO!!!He would've been better off getting put to sleep in the middle of the ring ala Roy...then the shyt would've been just sad instead of funny.
I'm conflicted here...on one hand, you don't want to see a legend go out like that...but the aesthetics of that knockout
^^^^How the hell do you not laugh at this?
now look at the almighty great white JOE SMITH..?
damn boxing can be a damn fukk YOU TOO sport.
The silly shyt is...Without a doubt in my mind BHOP wasnt hurt and he was flopping as he was down a few rounds......He just happened to get hit as he was falling out the ring, so he couldnt fake and dispute the decision; fukk em
Negro Caesar
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They shouldn’t have let hop fight for that long. He’s already showing signs his brain is beat the fukk up
