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Bernard Hopkins vs. Roy Jones Jr. II, billed as The Rivals, was a professional boxing match contested on April 3, 2010. [1] The fight was a rematch of the May 22, 1993 bout between the two where Jones defeated Hopkins for the IBF middleweight title.
Roy Jones Jr. and Bernard Hopkins (50–5–1, 32 KOs) met in a rematch bout, on April 3, 2010, at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, 17 years after their first fight. [108] Jones entered with a record of 5–5 in his previous ten bouts dating back to May 2004 whilst Hopkins came in 4–1 since June 2006.
Bernard Hopkins Jr. (born January 15, 1965) is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1988 to 2016. He is one of the most successful boxers of the past three decades, having held multiple world championships in two weight classes, including the undisputed championship [a] at middleweight from 2001 to 2005, and the lineal championship at light heavyweight from 2011 to 2012.
Having opened 2002 with a dominating victory over his IBF-mandated challenger Glen Kelly in early February, unified light heavyweight champion Roy Jones Jr. mulled his next fight. Cable network HBO pushed Jones to face long-time middleweight champion Bernard Hopkins, whom he had previously defeated nine years earlier, but Jones refused to budge ...
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17 years after their first bout in 1993, Roy Jones Jr. and Bernard Hopkins, both of whom had become two of the most successful and decorated boxers in the sport since then, had finally come to an agreement for their long-awaited rematch. As a precursor to their fight, both Jones and Hopkins had bouts scheduled on December 2, 2009, with both ...
[4] [5] Tarver, meanwhile, would agree to face Roy Jones Jr. on the October 1 date originally set for his fight with Hopkins, defeating Jones for the second time in a row to keep his titles. [6] [7] The Tarver–Hopkins fight was finally announced in February 2006 to take place on June 10 in Atlantic City after weeks of difficult negotiations. [8]
In the end, judges Chuck Giampa (116-111) and Ted Gimza (115-112) scored the fight for Calzaghe, while judge Adalaide Byrd (114-113) scored the fight for Hopkins. HBO's unofficial ringside judge Harold Lederman scored the bout 116-111 for Calzaghe. "It was a good fight. I thought Bernard (Hopkins) won though. But, I'm glad that Calzaghe won this.