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Corner #09
Bernard Hopkins
Middle Hea Champ
55-8 KO)
Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame
21 :30
On this episode Co Smitty down w Hopk Hopkins is one of the greatest
Middleweight Champions in Boxing history with 23 straight title defenses over a 10 year period. However, this episode
focuses on who he is as a man and how he overcame so much adversity in his youth. He started Boxing in prison and
once he got out he wouldn't let anything hold him back from greatness. His tenacious will and discipline made him one
of the greatest sports legends bith inside the ring and out
Bernard was one of the most intelligent boxers of all time and he and Smitty got really in depth
with the finer points of the Sweet Science when they got in the ring at Mandalay Bay Arena in
Las Vegas.
In This Corner premiered on April 1 2004 on the Empire Sports Network broadcasting in Upstate New
York and Nationally on DirecTV and Dish Network. Since that first airing, In This Corner has been on the
air every week and is in its 15th year of featuring one on one interviews and in ring demonstrations with
the biggest names in the sport of Boxing.
There has never been another show that has chronicled the stories of this many World Champions.
