I used to live down the road from Bhop as a kid when he was starting in Germantown PA. Dude was up everyday at 4am jogging-7 days a week! One morning i got up to play video games and this was how i began to catch him running. He ran with a crew as he got more famous. But, dude would train, eat, and sleep at exact times. A stone cold savage never to be replicated. The original Black Rocky!!
As a 66 year old white man raised in the south, sounds to me like Mr. Hopkins has it EXACTLY right. This country's either gonna change, or it's gonna stay the same. And staying the same is not an option. Nope.
Hopkins says a few things that I don’t agree with but his point was valid in that interview. That was a long time ago and his point is still relevant today.
Classic line from reporters who are afraid to tie their name to their opinion. "Some people would say" aka that's what I would say, but I don't want you to criticize me for it.
Me too cause this is how Black Americans generally thought like, so we should not hate each other nor anyone cause of the oppression built in this nation
If you talk to him off camera he’s the same til this day. You can’t really speak this blunt today w/o pretty much blackballing yourself, cameras are everywhere.
Jim gray was not ready and not equipt to deal with the raw powerful honesty of the champ. Real life experience vs watching from the sidelines and forming an opinion.
Wooooooooowwwwww this is the way to argue w/o cursing not a single bad word coming out of BHop mouth or screaming at the reporter, mad respects for BHop
Bernard Hopkins is a very good speaker for his self and told it like he knows it and had to say it like a Champion. Bernard Hopkins got boxing to work for him and that is the mark of a good Champ. 👍
I miss intelligent champions with character, who could express themselves, defend their ideals and expose the corruption of the sport, with eloquence and emotional intelligence. 🐐 🏆
It’s an illusion that he’s insightful because he dominates the conversation. There is no doubt he has points worthy of discussion or debate. But when you steamroll the conversation, it’s easy to look like a sage. And Gray was smart enough to question, and/ or make a counterpoint (Gray may have had his own agenda) and Hopkins had every right to set the tone. But it was a one way diatribe, and suffered as a result
Cant stand Hopkins. This is the same guy who said a white boy would never beat him. Fast forward to our very own Joe Calzaghe who schooled him. And then don't get me started on Joe Smith Jnr who knocked his ass out the ring comedy style. I laughed my ass off😂
"a black man has no rights that a white man need respect." "don't let the sun set on you here." "i'm free, white and 21!" come on, let's go racist comment for racist comment. i'll take the whites and you take the blacks and lets see who wins! it's fun for the whole family! i'll spot you "hymie town." by jesse jackson to get you started.
I will bet any amount of money this guy is a Calzaghe fan. Double the bet if he's from the UK. TRIPLE it that he's ever commented how it's a "shame" that Joe doesn't get the "recognition he deserves." Calzaghe fans are all the same.
Well said. Although I do kind of feel like he was just asking questions for questions sake not really throwing slander at him with his opinions but maybe they were mixed in there a little bit I don't know.
Jim Gray is the sole reason for the content. Understand what he said, " I don't have an opinion, I'm asking the questions. He respected that Benard answered his question about the fight, then he gave leading questions so Benard could express himself, much respect to Jim Gray. Watch the uncut video, brilliant.
I used to live down the road from Bhop as a kid when he was starting in Germantown PA. Dude was up everyday at 4am jogging-7 days a week! One morning i got up to play video games and this was how i began to catch him running. He ran with a crew as he got more famous. But, dude would train, eat, and sleep at exact times. A stone cold savage never to be replicated. The original Black Rocky!!
Black Rocky?😂Rocky doesn't exists..it was a made up television champion for white folks😂😂😂😂
Sharpneck St. W/ Space & Them Off Gorgas & Musgrave 💪🏾✊🏾✊🏾💪🏾💪🏾His Sister Used To B Up In The Gym W/ Us Up Horter St. Those Were The Days
All yall mofos are nuts. Bhop sit your racist ass down
So you're the one who sold him the peds
@@Me_preppy Nope, That was Tank’s dad
I really appreciate Bernard Hopkins for standing up not only for boxing but but also standing up as a man in schooling those who need to be schooled
And Hopkins has changed in to them
@@raven4545 Sadly you're correct
What's right Hopkins talk bout all them peds he was on
@@nas8326 was he really on PEDS ?
Jim Gray usually was a moron
Schooled Jim Gray who's acting clueless about the politics and corruption in boxing!
They always act clueless to politics and corruption pertaining to everything that goes on in society. Js
@@devinthomas5258except for that tank Davis Jim grey interview where he made it political when tank only referred to guns as in his punches haha
Facts!!
@@Xenlacasa45I remember that. Nobody was thinking about that until he brought it up. Straight clown
He acts clueless because if he didn't he wouldn't have a job
B-Hop owned this interview, very well said
He owned it because almost all of the interviewers responses, questions and comments were cut out! 😂 That said, BHop was right about a lot of things!
This was the version of B-Hop we loved. He was a man against the machine, now he speaks like a company man.
🎯
He, alongside Oscar, owns Golden Boy promotions.
.....🫵🏼
@@ItIs-m3von its last leg 😂
@@nas8326Filthy rich too
As a 66 year old white man raised in the south, sounds to me like Mr. Hopkins has it EXACTLY right. This country's either gonna change, or it's gonna stay the same. And staying the same is not an option. Nope.
Hopkins says a few things that I don’t agree with but his point was valid in that interview. That was a long time ago and his point is still relevant today.
We need more allies like you. Peace brother
It’s not gonna change by voting 😂
@@Modus888-if9yjwhat do YOU suggest champ ?
@@TheLanternZ it says in your Constitution what to do when you have a tyrannical government
One of the sharpest minds in boxing in and out the ring
Bernard is mentally sharp.
Especially for being in that sport that long, usually by that time they are slurring their words when they speak
@@jaydrains2247not everyone slurs pacquiao sounds fine so does de la hoya Marquez barerra and morales they all took a lot of blows to the head
Not anymore
Not really...
@@Xenlacasa45 so your point being? Fighters are often very smart people but the brain damage gets almost all of them sooner or later
I thought what ‘B-Hop did it was a crafty way of putting out a “if the shoe fits wear it“ style message. You know who you are🥊
Schooled Jim Gray and just about everyone else who came against him!
I remember that interview, I loved how Bernard Hopkins put this dude in his place!!! Well done!!!❤
Classic line from reporters who are afraid to tie their name to their opinion. "Some people would say" aka that's what I would say, but I don't want you to criticize me for it.
Exactly.
People do this all the time even when they aren’t reporters they wanna throw a rock and hide their hand
In my humble opinion I think this is the greatest sports interview of all time
I MISS this B Hop! 🫡
Me too cause this is how Black Americans generally thought like, so we should not hate each other nor anyone cause of the oppression built in this nation
If you talk to him off camera he’s the same til this day. You can’t really speak this blunt today w/o pretty much blackballing yourself, cameras are everywhere.
Jim gray was not ready and not equipt to deal with the raw powerful honesty of the champ. Real life experience vs watching from the sidelines and forming an opinion.
Jim Grey knows exactly what he’s talking about and wants to make him look like a fool for exposing the truth.
B Hop wanted to throw in an 'accidental' headbutt😂😂😂
B-Hop stood on his square!!
Well done Bernard for not taking any of Jim Grays garbage
Well said !!
“You don’t have to go along with the system if you’re unhappy with it”
Bet
Back when Bernard was sharp as a samurai sword.
Just to become a clown as the clowns u was clowning
He is the man. The real deal. No joke. Love Hopkins.
TRUTH BERNARD LOVE YOU MI BROTHER
Jim Gray has always been a little suspicious.
Is this him as a person or just some work persona? This small clip made me angry.
He's a jerk
@@scott7521 And Hopkins is a former criminal. I'll take a "jerk" over a criminal any day.
B-Hop, sharp as a tack... That last quote was powerful...
Bernard spoke BARE FACTS …… these jokers were ALWAYS trying to silence him!
JUCK FIM GRAY
I don't like "journalists" either, but that boxer is talking to the wrong guy. Talk to the people that are responsible.
Correct. Bernard should also mention names of the corrupt people, not throw indirect comments to a reporter trying to interview him.
Wooooooooowwwwww this is the way to argue w/o cursing not a single bad word coming out of BHop mouth or screaming at the reporter, mad respects for BHop
Jim Gray should be quiet, no one wants to hear what he thinks. Let the athletes speak.
Can someone post the FULL interview? 👀👂🏼
Look At How They Spelled School 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️ Hope They Did That On Purpose.... NOT
I like how Jim just says to stay out of it if you don’t want to be taken advantage of!!
And media has always been sneaky!!
Bernard just told the truth about the business of boxing and must be admired for doing so!
Now this the BHOP EVERYBODY misses!!!
Now he is the politics of golden boy promotions
One of my all time favs !! Tell Jim off!
30 years later no one watches or follows boxing! The biggest fights are celebrities versus retired fighters.
I saw this interview back in the day live on tv. 🥊👍👈🏻🤛🏽👊🏽✊🏿
Jim Gray has always been a low down sneaky reporter
I hated seeing him on Tyson podcasts🤦🏾🤔
Jim Gray got owned.
He was trying his best to get a reaction, I'm proud of this man for keeping his composure. While standing up for what is right.
All this technology and features in our phones still can’t get you to spell things right.
Golden ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽
Bernard Hopkins is a very good speaker for his self and told it like he knows it and had to say it like a Champion.
Bernard Hopkins got boxing to work for him and that is the mark of a good Champ. 👍
We need this BHOP back
Genius!
That's what u call Standing on Business. Well said B-Hop🫡🫡
COOKED HIM BAD
1:49 mic drop 🎤
I've always loved Bernard Hopkins! 👊🏾🥊
WHY was this interview edited, there were important things he said that were left out?!?! 😤
I miss intelligent champions with character, who could express themselves, defend their ideals and expose the corruption of the sport, with eloquence and emotional intelligence. 🐐 🏆
It’s an illusion that he’s insightful because he dominates the conversation. There is no doubt he has points worthy of discussion or debate. But when you steamroll the conversation, it’s easy to look like a sage. And Gray was smart enough to question, and/ or make a counterpoint (Gray may have had his own agenda) and Hopkins had every right to set the tone. But it was a one way diatribe, and suffered as a result
I love Bhops response to the "if you dont like it you can quit comment"
Bernard Hopkins , well said brother 👏 👍 💯 s
BHOP absolutely took him to school
Cant stand Hopkins. This is the same guy who said a white boy would never beat him. Fast forward to our very own Joe Calzaghe who schooled him. And then don't get me started on Joe Smith Jnr who knocked his ass out the ring comedy style. I laughed my ass off😂
Interviewer said he doesn't have to fight, THAT'S HOW HE MAKES HIS LIVING!
That guy is smart he is a big thinker takes time to thing and leastning before he talks and has an athlete is a great one and I love to watch him
"Ain't no white man alive that can beat me" 😂😂
"a black man has no rights that a white man need respect." "don't let the sun set on you here." "i'm free, white and 21!" come on, let's go racist comment for racist comment. i'll take the whites and you take the blacks and lets see who wins! it's fun for the whole family! i'll spot you "hymie town." by jesse jackson to get you started.
It's always one goofy
@@thisislaflaretv5250no idea what that means
it was hopkins as quoted during the press for his fight with joe calzaghe@@kdee8166
I will bet any amount of money this guy is a Calzaghe fan. Double the bet if he's from the UK. TRIPLE it that he's ever commented how it's a "shame" that Joe doesn't get the "recognition he deserves." Calzaghe fans are all the same.
“I never got injured….but when I did get injured…” 😂😂😂
Our Philly’s own BHop telling it like it is !!!! 💯
He’s said some wild things lately, but everything he said here was on point.
Well said. Although I do kind of feel like he was just asking questions for questions sake not really throwing slander at him with his opinions but maybe they were mixed in there a little bit I don't know.
Then why cut him off while he's speaking? The interview is abt him not the person doing the interview.. yikes!
Him and Mayweather sound similar ,
That's the last time I could actually stand to hear him talk at length.
It seem like they think they are untouchable and walking away like that is what true kings are about.
Am I dyslexic... Or does the subtitles say Shcool not School
Was he wrong though??? #BHOP
Jim would’ve been better off covering water polo with his sensitive disposition. 🥊🥊
Same when they ask Muhammad Ali why he changed his name and why he won't fight in the war Black Man standing up for what he Believes In.
PLEASE ! Ali stood up against Vietnam, B hop stood up for SHOW ME THE MONEY !
Jim Gray is the sole reason for the content. Understand what he said, " I don't have an opinion, I'm asking the questions. He respected that Benard answered his question about the fight, then he gave leading questions so Benard could express himself, much respect to Jim Gray. Watch the uncut video, brilliant.
1 of the best mike talkers
Bhop
Thats done thats tomorrow 😂 i think he meant yesterday
Good for you Bernard.
"B-HOP IS "THE LAST OF THE OLD SCHOOLERS"........
He was SPOT ON about us "MISSING HIM IN THE SQUARED CIRCLE."
ALL 100% FACTS
Jim gray owned bernard.
U sound dumb.
Tell em King BHoP🤴🏾👈🏾💪🏾😎🫡
I like how he doesnt blame the interviewer
1:22 was so on point
That was classic yesteryear Hopkins!!! Always could hold his own against them people. Inside and out side the ring
Lol shcool? It's called proof reading
Hopkins is a smart well spoken man!! Good for BHop he put buddy in his place.
Good job, Bernard Hopkins speaking on his terms. First time seeing this one.
oh God i miss old school boxing 🥊🥲
Not if it’s spelled like that…
Every interview that i watch of Hopkins makes me more of a fan of him
Calzaghi 🥊🥊👏👏😂😂😂😂😂😂
Bernard Hopkins llol what a bozo
The brother was sharp as a tack. Especially to be talking like that right after a fight. Salute 🫡
He was speaking all facts!!!
Now! This is the Bernard Hopkins I remembered! Not this guy today! What happened?
The answer is YES!
Back when boxers was eager to get back in the ring boxers today go 9 months without fighting
GOAT 🐐
SHCOOL? Damn, he schooled him so hard, he reinvented spelling!
I love how Hopkins handled his old racist azz 😂