Former undisputed middleweight champion Bernard Hopkins was one of the many boxing stars who recently attended a press conference in LA. Amongst the topics bought up the sports of Mixed Martial Arts was on the list. Hopkins made it clear that he does not consider MMA a sport or a legitimate threat to boxing “I said it before, boxing is an art and a skill that takes years to master what they got there is a sport created for bar room brawlers, who go in there and take swings at each other until someone falls down – that’s what you see on the street that’s not a sport. They not on our level as far as skill goes. That’s why we the ones always doing the big PPV numbers, put me in that [MMA] cage and watch how their PPV numbers triple”
When asked about his future in boxing and his possible opponents Bernard stated he would be interested in a fight with British super middleweight champion Carl Froch. “I’m not 100% sure about who’s next in line but I’m looking for either [Carl] Froch or [Tomasz] Adamek.”
