“Kovalev is a monster. He’s a beast. He punches harder than Hercules,” Richardson said. “But I don’t want people to defang him on Sunday. If Kovalev is all of these things that people say he is and Bernard beats him, you better start that car and drive him straight to Canastota, [New York], and induct him into the Hall of Fame right now.”
Win or lose, Hopkins will be in the Hall of Fame when he is eligible five years after his last fight. But the way things are going, who knows when that will be?
“We’re not talking about just a fighter, any ordinary fighter,” said Golden Boy’s Oscar De La Hoya, Hopkins’ promoter, business partner and 2004 knockout victim. “We’re really talking about an alien, Bernard Hopkins, who at the age of 49, going on 50, is still fighting the toughest and the very best.
“This man tells it old-school. We will never ever in our lifetime see a fighter like Bernard Hopkins, probably ever again.”
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