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Bernard Hopkins Highlight "I will never let a white boy beat me"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJfO-1n2c0E

If Bernard Hopkins fights anything like he talks when he takes on Joe Calzaghe in Las Vegas on April 19 then their light-heavyweight contest is certain to go the distance. Asked last week to explain his controversial remark that he would "never lose to a white boy", the veteran Philadelphian held forth for a full 15 minutes with an answer that ranged from sporting history, to boxing gyms in inner-city ghettos to the United States presidential campaign. But not once during his monologue did Hopkins admit that he was wrong to play the race card.  Hopkins, who served five years for robbery in the 1980s before turning his life around through boxing, may regret some things in his colourful life but calling the world super-middleweight champion a white boy is certainly not one of them.

While he sought to play down the race issue when he appeared alongside Wales's favourite son at Planet Hollywood during his brief promotional visit to London, he was not quite so reticent in the more rarefied surroundings of the tea room of the Lanesborough Hotel.