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" Rhythm is everything in boxing. Every move you make starts with your heart, and that's in rhythm or you are in trouble." SUGAR RAY ROBINSON. considered by many to be the greatest boxer of all time.

This man knew every trick in the book...whoever taught him because someone did deserves respect....any young fighter I would advise to watch Hopkins career

B-Hop was a beast. One of THE most intelligent fighters EVER & one of my all-time faves.

Bernard is an example of what to do after prison

Felix Trinidad won his first title from Maurice Blocker and not Oscar DeLa Hoya

This guy boxed pro until 52 thats remarcable

You should do felix rise to the welterweight top he was one the best finishers & exciting fighters ever. Went threw multiple gold medalists & hall of famers too. People forget who he was before hopkins.

Experience could have helped B Hop some against RJJ, but that version of Roy was not beatable by anyone who ever lived. Check out his hand speed and accuracy. Unbelievable.

I met BHop once and he is a gracious and realest brother anyone would hope to meet. Truly one of the best to ever lace up a pair of boxing gloves.

Coming up on the 20th Anniversary of Hopkins-Trinidad this September.

This is the best boxing channel ever 👏 🙌 constant goosebumps

Soo much content in 1 short video. This is gold!!

I just learned that Bernard Hopkins last fought (?) at his age of 51. He has that longevity in the square ring.

When the video says 'Trinidad took his first title from De La Hoya' notice that the IBF title is being held up behind Trinidad. It wasn't his first title match against De La Hoya, it was a unification match for Oscar's WBC belt and Tito's IBF belt. It was Tito's 15th defence. He comes second only to Henry Armstrong for most title defences at welterweight. He took that first title six years earlier.

Great video. Thanks

Excellent pieces rhythm! Well written and produced! Keep up the good work!

BHop him and my cousin is still best friends to this day. A cool humble guy

Great work again

As always great storying telling

Great video so well put together

Used to hate fighting him on fight night. Always a tough fight

Thanks for giving other boxers some attention. Tito Trinidad? Winky Wright? Jermaine Taylor?

Dope video! The Executioner definitely up there with the great ones.

New Subscriber! Seen the other the channels but not this one, great content.

A boxer who truly mastered the fundamentals of the sport 🥊👑

"this is boxing " in GGG accent

Foreman wanted Trinidad to win so badly it hurts.

Great video 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Remember when was aging he beat that young guy in a rematch i think, whilst doing push ups between rounds

I just found this channel and I got to say it’s up there up BLTV extra and motivemedia . Great content

Most underrated boxer in the history of boxing

He didn’t destroy titos career. He simply showed Trinidad that he was king at Middle and that felix didn’t belong there 🤷🏾‍♂️

Tito Trinidad was my guy and it's very hard to even try to watch this. You can see that he actually has talent. I think he's even with anybody around those weights right now. Tito is one of my favorite fighter. I miss the great times in boxing.

Old dude not only beat Trinidad, he also beat Dela Hoya. Top two fighters of that Era. Amazing feat.

This was a golden era of boxing. Fighters turned boxing into an art.

What is not mentioned is that when Trinidad got into problems he used to low blow his opponents.

I gotta say that thumbnail is legendary

A really nice guy, and a true student of boxing. Thanks to him for his dedication, to my favorite sport.

Goosebumps...this is my favorite Hopkins match.

Beautiful video

Bernard Hopkins is one of the greatest middleweight champions ever I have him ranked right behind hagler and he fought top level fighters even when he was close to being 50 they don't make them like that anymore

Bhop one of my favourite boxers of all time

This day ALL Puerto Rico crying 😭😭

This was not an upset. I told everyone Hopkins was going to roll through Trinidad.

Game changing fight

It is said til this day, bhop's right hand never left his temple 🤣

Thank you Calzage.

Are you guys gonna ignore that Hopkins team (Brother Richardson rip 🙏🏾) caught Trinidad with illegal wraps before this fight. Trinidad was indeed not the same without those wraps

The Alien!!

Bernard "The Executioner" Hopkins - (55-8-2-2, KO's 32) - "World title fight record: 26-6-1-2, KO's 12) # Undisputed Middleweight Champion of the world: 1995-2005. (Title fight record: 20-3-0-1, KO's 12). # 3-time Light Heavyweight Champion of the world: 2006-2008, 2011-2012 & 2013-2014. (Title fight record: 6-3-1-1, KO's 0). # Defeated 15 recognized world champions: Oscar De La Hoya, Roy Jones Jr, Felix Trinidad, Antonio Tarver, Winky Wright, Jean Pascal, Kelly Pavlik, Glen Johnson, John David Jackson, Beibut Shumenov, William Joppy, Keith Holmes, Carl Daniels, Simon Brown & Lupe Aquino # Defeated several recognised top contenders including: Howard Eastman, Segundo Mercado, Robert Allen x2, Syd Vanderpool, Antwun Echols x2, Andrew Council, Morrade Hakkar, Enrique Ornelas, Karo Murat, Steve Frank, Joe Lipsey, Wayne Powell etc. # Lost to 6 recognised world champions: Roy Jones Jr, Jermain Taylor x2 (disputed decisions), Joe Cazaghe (disputed decision), Chad Dawson, Sergey Kovalev & Joe Smith Jr. # Boxing world records: - Longest time serving as middleweight world champion: 10 years (1995-2005) - Most middleweightworld title defences: 20 title defences (19-0-1) - 2nd fastest middlweight word title KO victory: 1996, Steve Frank, KO 1st round in 24 seconds. - Fastest knockout ever in an IBF title bout P4P: 1996, Steve Frank, KO 1st round in 24 seconds. - Oldest recognised world champion P4P in boxing history: 50 years old. - Oldest man to win a recognised world championship P4P: 48 years old + 2nd oldest man P4P at age 46. NOTE: There is a similarity between Bernard Hopkins & Roy Jones Jr contra Lennox Lewis & Mike Tyson. Like this - Both Jones Jr & Tyson started boxing early in life and got well schooled early on with there careers and recognition. Both became world champions early and was faces of boxing for many years. Hopkins & Lewis was both older then there rival counterpart and both where later-bloomers so to speak in the art of boxing despite also being older. While things took longer for them to climb up and earn recognitoopn, both men would go on to bot only become better boxers with time but also have longer lasting glorious careers in the ring. Tyson's champion days ended in 1996 at age 31 - Lewis ended in 2004 at age 38. Jones Jr's championship days ended in 2004 at age 35 - Hopkins ended in 2014 at age 50.

Very cool man

God I remember the night he beat up Tito. That hurt my heart that night being Puerto Rico from New York

Effective speed beats power. Effective timing beats speed.

After tito he turned into dam hugger

Bernard was probably able to last as long as he did because he didn't have the wear and tear of 200 amateur fights.

Love It!!!

"I never let a white boy beat me". Famous last words haha

One question, how do you carry on fighting with a dislocated shoulder?! You wouldn't be able to lift your arm, let alone throw punches, and protect yourself!

Most underrated boxer ever

The description doesn't make sense

The one factor omitted here is how Hopkins camp made sure there was no improper hardening in Trinidad's handwraps, as he routinely did. Once his illegal edge was gone, Trinidad was a goner.

Trinidad shoulda trained harder and get a rematch

I still can’t believe that anybody who watched that fight between De La Hoya & Trinidad thought Tito won

I predicted his win against Tito almost to a T! I just figured if Oscar could out box him and should have beaten him down properly then a tougher and larger and far more tricky guy like Bernard was gonna school him and stop him late and that's exactly what turned out happening 🤷‍♂️ Hopkins was no Joppy

Punch and hold punch and hold!! The most in entertaining boxer on the planet. Punch hold clinch punch clinch!!

Felix Trinidad LOST to De La Hoya, didn't see what the judges saw

He is a legend. A good tactician and and a strong puncher.

Trinidad was great, never lost in his prime weights, 154 and 147

One of biggest misconecption about Bernand Hopkins is that he started late, he didn't start late, he was a state champ when he was 8 yrs old, he also boxed when he was in prison as well. He didn't start boxing at around 18 years old, he just picked up where he left it. It's well documanted, he also had over 100 fights. Here is article

how have i never seen that clip @ 7:20 harrowing stuff

Bernard gave us the definition of a masterclass. Put Tito to school and took his heart

I'll never forget how BHop threw the PR flag to the ground. That move started the crack in the dam

Let's not pretend bhop was using his elbows an head

He even lay down and acting like he was mocking Trinidad's fate on that night. Lol

Man this one hurts... As a Puertorican and Tito fan... This one hurts. Tito had no business moving up to fight middleweight. And even less business against B-Hop. Sucks this was the beginning of the end for Tito.

For me Felix Trinidad should be the greatest too.. excellent boxer .

Hopkins vs. Joe Smith is easily my all time favorite boxing match to watch

Watch the break down on how many headbutts. Hopkins hit Trinidad with

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I hate when young people make videos like this that didnt know this era. Tito and Osxar thrived to be legendary so took a risk they both would eventually regret. Hopkins was to big for both fighters.

Would of love to seen Canelo, fight hagler, or hopkins, that would of been a war with either of those two. No idea who would win. Canelo is hell good but those two were straight out beasts from another world.

The Mercado fight where Hopkins won his first world title was actually a rematch from where the first bout was declared a draw. I believe that Bernard was knocked down two or three times in that first bout, if my memory is correct. But, Hopkins was on fire in that rematch; couldnt miss with thr straight right hand.

"Cigarette related murder" so many ways to take that

Really love the content Would love a video about gennadi golovski

Benard was an exceptional fighter

*Maurice Blocker (Not Oscar Dela Hoya)

I remember 911 i was on base when we found out then we was getting ready to ship out i lost a lot of brothers snd did 3 tours

Bernard Hopkins one of Greatest Middleweight champions of All Time 20 Middleweight Title Defense boxing History

Bernard was one tough sonofagun.

Bernard 'the Raysis' Hopkins

Wish Hopkins came about a bit earlier, him v hagler would have been a total war(money woulda been on hagler)

Careers bernard destroyed: 1. Segundo 2. Felix Trinidad 3. Kelly pavlik 4. Cloud 5. Jean pascal 6. Chad dawson (was not the same after win) 7. Shuminev

this video's voiceover is copied word to word from Wikipedia

That knockout on Tito was prolly the greatest KO ever

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Only.the last punch Hopkins pushed him alittle .

Hopkins fought dirty as hell, though.

His sooo underrated and it’s really sucks …

Trinidad was accustomed bullying smaller fighters.