“The Alien” Prepares For April 19 Light Heavyweight World Championship Unification Against Beibut Shumenov LIVE on SHOWTIME® SHOWTIME EXTREME® To Re-Air Hopkins vs. Murat and Shumenov vs. Kovacs Tonight at 10 p.m. ET/PT Photo Credit: Tom Casino/SHOWTIME PHILADELPHIA, Pa. (April 10, 2014) – Future Hall of Famer and IBF Light Heavyweight World Champion Bernard “The […]
Bernard Hopkins & Beibut Shumenov Washington D.C. Presser Quotes
March 11, 2014 By Leave a Comment
BERNARD “THE ALIEN” HOPKINS AND BEIBUT SHUMENOV WASHINGTON, D.C. KICK-OFF PRESS CONFERENCE QUOTES FOR APRIL 19 LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP UNIFICATION Saturday, April 19, LIVE ON SHOWTIME® at 9 p.m. ET/PT From The DC Armory TICKETS ON SALE NOW WASHINGTON, D.C. (March 11, 2014) – IBF Light Heavyweight World Champion Bernard Hopkins and WBA Super World Champion Beibut […]
Bernard Hopkins & Beibut Shumenov To Host NYC Presser To Announce April 19
March 11, 2014 By Leave a Comment
BERNARD “THE ALIEN” HOPKINS AND BEIBUT SHUMENOV TO HOST NEW YORK CITY PRESS CONFERENCE TO FORMALLY ANNOUNCE THEIR LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP UNIFICATION BOUT TAKING PLACE SATURDAY, APRIL 19 AT THE DC ARMORY IN WASHINGTON, D.C. LIVE ON SHOWTIME® WBO Middleweight World Champion Peter “Kid Chocolate” Quillin To Attend and Discuss His Co-Main Event […]
SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING: Hopkins-Murat A Huge Ratings Winner
October 30, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Average Viewership Across The Tripleheader Telecast Ranks Second Highest of Year; Third Highest in Nearly a Decade; Bringing Annual Average Up 23 Percent From 2012 NEW YORK (Oct. 30, 2013) – Last Saturday’s SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING tripleheader, highlighted by Future Hall of Famer Bernard Hopkins,drew the second largest average audience for a live SHOWTIME® boxing event this year and ranks as the […]
Bernard Hopkins, Peter Quillin, Deontay Wilder – Pre-Fight Action
October 22, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Hopkins vs. Murat Quillin vs. Rosado Wilder vs. Firtha Boxing’s elder statesman, IBF Light Heavyweight World Champion Bernard Hopkins, has been dazzling audiences in the ring for 25 years. Check out highlights from “The Alien,” formerly known as “The Executioner,” along with the greatest hits of middleweight champion Peter Quillin and heavyweight knockout king Deontay […]
SHO SPORTS VIDEO: Bernard Hopkins – I AM A FIGHTER
October 21, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“I’ve shown for 20-plus years, with a legacy that will be talked about way after I’m gone, that I am different.” – Bernard Hopkins His accomplishments are too long to list. Twenty successful middleweight title defenses. Longest reign of a middleweight world champ. Oldest world champion in boxing history. But age and gold belts aren’t […]
Mitchell-Witherspoon conference call quotes
April 10, 2012 By Leave a Comment
APRIL 28th will bring a night of boxing that will hopefully give an answer to the Bernard Hopkins 52-5-2 (32) +Chad Dawson 30-1 (17) equation. One that wasn’t answered when the pair squared off at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California this past October. The bout came to a dull & abrupt conclusion when […]
WBC orders Hopkins-Dawson II
December 16, 2011 By Leave a Comment
EARLIER today the WBC laid out orders for light heavyweight champion Bernard Hopkins 52-5-2-1NC (32) to rematch former champion Chad Dawson 30-1-1NC (17)during the sanctioning body’s 49th annual convention in Las Vegas. The decision comes on the heels of Tuesday’s decision to change the result from a tko win for Dawson to a no-contest at the behest of […]
Loew confirms Pavlik split
December 13, 2011 By Leave a Comment
TRAINER Jack Loew has worked with former WBC/WBO middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik 37-2 (32) for the past two decades. He has been with “The Ghost” from day one; at the highest and lowest points of his boxing career and day to day life. He developed Pavlik into an undefeated force to be reckoned with at 160 […]
CLEVERLY: “I HAVE SHOWN I’M A TRUE WORLD CHAMPION”
October 16, 2011 By Leave a Comment
NATHAN CLEVERLY 23-0 (11 KO’s) believes he has proved that he is the real deal and a true world champion after his battling display to defeat Tony ‘Bomber’ Bellew 16-1 (10) in Liverpool on Saturday night. Cleverly retained his WBO light-heavyweight belt by a majority decision against the battling Bellew in front of the Wavertree […]
