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Winner Hopkins vs Shumenov, Watch Hopkins vs Shumenov 2014 Live Stream, Full HD Streaming Bernard Hopkins vs Beibut Shumenov Live, Hopkins vs Shumenov Live Stream, Bernard Hopkins vs Beibut Shumenov 2014 Live Streaming, Watch Hopkins vs Shumenov Online, Free Hopkins vs Shumenov 2014 Live Streaming, Hopkins vs Shumenov Main Cards, Hopkins vs Shumenov Prediction, Fight Time Hopkins vs Shumenov Live, Watch Hopkins vs Shumenov Live Stream Match Cards, Hopkins vs Shumenov 2014 Live Streaming Results Golden Boy CEO Richard Schaefer called IBF light heavyweight titleholder Bernard Hopkins on Wednesday, the boxer’s 49th birthday, and delivered the perfect news. Schaefer told Hopkins that a deal has been reached, in principle, with promotional stablemate and WBA beltholder Beibut Shumenov for a unification bout. Hopkins-Shumenov would happen either on March 29 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn or April 19 at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas. Schaefer said both venues will play host to Golden Boy events.
Already the oldest man to win a significant crown, Hopkins, who fights on Showtime (along with Shumenov), wants to get beyond Shumenov and face the winner between hard-hitting counterparts RING and WBC champion Adonis Stevenson and WBO beltholder Sergey Kovalev (should those two fight this year). “I called Bernard today on his 49th birthday, and had a very nice conversation with him. I told him how much I appreciate my friendship and my relationship with him, and what an amazing person he is, and that I’m really proud of the relationship we have,” said Schaefer. “I said that I wanted to give him a very special birthday gift, and I felt that delivering a unification fight at age 49 would give him a chance to make history again. We’ll be doing an event on both of those nights, and we have other names and other fights which will be held on that date as well. I’m working on some other big fights but I am not going to go into detail on those.”
Stevenson and Kovalev are aligned with Showtime’s network rival HBO, which has severed ties with Golden Boy. “If you look at what his plan would have been is that he fights Shumenov, and Stevenson and Kovalev fight each other, and then the two winners fight for the undisputed championship. But it seems like Stevenson and Kovalev may have other plans,” said Schaefer. “So he might have to beat all of them, which is no problem with Bernard. The blueprint is that he’s going to fight Shumenov first. I talked to Don Chargin, who is working with Shuemov, and with Al Haymon, who is his advisor, and we’re very close on getting the deal done with Beibut. It’s not signed, but I do believe that, in principle, we have a fight. I’ll be working to finalize all of this in the coming weeks.”
It was back on Sept. 29, 2001, that Hopkins scored a 12th-round knockout over previously undefeated Felix Trinidad at New York’s Madison Square Garde, earning the undisputed middleweight title. Trinidad became the 14th of the Philadelphia fighter’s record 20 title defenses, culminating a Don King-promoted 160-pound tournament duing which IBF beletholder Hopkins had dethroned the WBC’s Keith Holmes by unanimous decision, and Trinidad, the WBA’s William Joppy by fifth-round stoppage. Hopkins’ triumph added Trinidad’s WBA title to his IBF and WBC belts, unifying the middleweight division for the first time since 1987 and tying Carlos Monzon with his record 14th defense.
Now, Hopkins, sees a chance to achieve similar glory as a 175-pounder. “It’s going to happen because you’ve got two of the smartest guys, and two of the brightest guys that I trust, and that I respect first, and that’s Al Haymon and that is Richard Schaefer,” said Hopkins. “When you’ve got that situation, and you have two fighters who say that they want to fight in order to get to the other light heavyweight champions, that’s an ancient attitude. It hasn’t been like that in so many years. That’s why I think that the tournament of 2001 was so big, and promoted so big.”
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Bernard Hopkins set the middleweight title defense record by retaining his IBF belt 20 times en route to unifying all the major 160-pound belts during the course of his historic 10-year reign. From 1995 to 2005, he was known as “The Executioner.” More recently, Hopkins twice became the eldest man to win a major belt in boxing, later changing his nickname to “The Alien.”
On April 19 at the D.C. Amory in Washington, D.C., Hopkins (54-6-2, 32 knockouts), who turned 49 in January, will put his IBF 175-pound title on the line against that of WBA counterpart Beibut Shumenov (13-1, 8 KOs). Hopkins’ goal, within proximity of his 50th birthday, is to become undisputed champion as he did at 160-pounds. Hopkins wants to unify all the major belts by defeating Shumenov before facing the winner of a potential clash between RING and WBC champion Adonis Stevenson and WBO titleholder Sergey Kovalev. Golden Boy COO Bruce Binkow offered his perspective of Hopkins during a Tuesday press conference at the W Hotel in downtown Washington, DC.
“Every time Bernard Hopkins fights it’s a historical event,” said Binkow, “and we also have a world champion who is looking to make his mark and history by taking Bernard’s belt. Shumenov has successfully defended his title five times, and this April he gets an opportunity to add his name to the history books if he can do what very few people have done and beat Bernard Hopkins. “I could remind you that Bernard won his middleweight title in 1995 and successfully defended it 20 times. But what’s really amazing is that Bernard has had a spectacular last couple of years. He’s already twice become the oldest man to win a major world championship and in 2013 he had one of his greatest years ever.
I believe that if a baseball, football or basketball player was performing anywhere near the level that he is performing at his age he would be in a lab being studied by science. It’s absolutely unbelievable.” In October, Hopkins unanimously decisioned Karo Murat in defense of the IBF belt he won by unanimous decision over previously unbeaten Tavoris Cloud in March to extend his own record as the oldest man to win a significant crown.
Hopkins first set the record at the age of 46 by outpointing Jean Pascal for the WBC’s title in May 2011 before being dethroned following a majority decision loss to Chad Dawson in May 2012. After winning the IBF middleweight title from Segundo Mercado on April 29, 1995, Hopkins went on to defend it a record 20 times before losing to Jermain Taylor by a split decision on July 16, 2005. Hopkins’ milestone run included knockouts against the likes of Oscar De La Hoya, Felix Trinidad, Robert Allen, Simon Brown, Glen Johnson, John David Jackson and Carl Daniels.
After losing back-to-back controversial decisions to Taylor, Hopkins rose into the light heavyweight division for triumphs over Antonio Tarver, Winky Wright, Kelly Pavlik, Enrique Ornelas and Roy Jones, his lone light heavyweight defeat prior to Dawson was a split-decision against recent hall of fame inductee Joe Calzaghe. “When you’ve been in the game so long that you outlive your nickname… he was ‘The Executioner,’ now he’s ‘The Alien,’ it’s been an honor and a pleasure to actually watch him culminate into the type of athlete that he is today,” said Hopkins’ trainer, Naazim Richardson. “A lot of people don’t understand our sport, and they don’t understand that 30 in boxing is old. This guy is ancient. You have to sit back and realize how impressive this is.”
Hopkins is old enough to be a parent to the 30-year-old Shumenov, a 2004 Kazakhstan Olympian who ended an 18-month absence by scoring three knockdowns during a third-round stoppage of Tamas Kovacs in December. Shumenov dethroned Gabriel Campillo by controversial split decision in January of 2010, avenging a loss by majority decision in their previous fight in August of 2009. Shumenov established a record for the light heavyweight division by defeating Campillo in just his 10th professional bout.
