by Mark Phillips (Boxing Base) | Nov 30, 2016 | Boxing News & Opinions
There’s still a bucketload of action headed fight fans’ way before 2016 is through, with the month of December full of big names and meaningful matchups. Let’s jump headfirst into it, narrowing down the Top 5 Fights (no easy task given the stacked schedule) to check...
by Mark Phillips (Boxing Base) | Aug 25, 2015 | Boxing News & Opinions
At the latest GGG-Lemieux press conference, Bernard Hopkins chimed in with his own thoughts on the TNT-loaded unification fight. The former Middleweight champ seemed unsurprisingly overwhelmed with the vast interest already generated for the October 17th bout, and...
by Mark Phillips (Boxing Base) | Apr 3, 2015 | Boxing Results, Post Fight Analysis
April 19th, 2014. In Washington D.C., Bernard Hopkins unified the IBF and WBA Light Heavyweight straps after outclassing Beibut Shumenov. Though Hopkins took his foe to school for much of the bout, his efforts were dismally expressed by the judges who turned in a...
by Mark Phillips (Boxing Base) | Apr 3, 2015 | Boxing Results, Post Fight Analysis
On November 8th, 2014, the career of 49-year-old boxing legend, Bernard Hopkins, may have finally come to an end. The ageless wonder has beaten some of the sport’s best over the past six years, such as Kelly Pavlik and Jean Pascal, but it was an all different...