KEEPING YOUR WORD ISN’T ALWAYS POSSIBLE
San Francisco, CA– Mick Jagger said, “You won’t catch me singing Satisfaction at 50.” Bernard Hopkins promised his mother he would retire two years ago. Oscar De La Hoya told me time and again that he “Would not go out like (Ray) Leonard or (Roberto) Duran.” Said Roy Jones, “Nobody will have to tell me to quit. I’ll never get knocked out.” Grace Slick, lead singer for the Jefferson Airplane/Starship stated, “I won’t be singing White Rabbit when I’m 50.”
LAST CHANCE TO HEAR SATISFACTION LIVE?
Jagger will be singing Satisfaction on this 2009 tour and he’s 66. Hopkins can’t pile away enough money, thus this smarter than average pug is willing to roll the dice at 44 if the price is right. De La Hoya did go out like Ray & Roberto with an embarrassing loss. Only Slick, now 69, was true to her word and retired in 1990. Her last tour was in 1989.
Grace Slick 1967
ALL THAT POWER & MONEY AND OSCAR LOST
What I’m trying to say here is that few people can really predict the way things turn out. Oscar surely didn’t plan on being retired by a small guy in Manny Pacquiao. But the “Golden Boy,” after years of picking on smaller, slower, and older foes, so much like Leonard, was hammered in his final bout.
ROY JONES: “I’LL NEVER GET KNOCKED OUT”
Jones continues to fight, this after being brutally KO’d on two occasions. Hopkins, underappreciated because of a lackluster middleweight division during his heyday, is willing to roll the dice because he can make big money with little risk. I suspect it’ll be Hopkins and Roy Jones sooner rather than any later. A pair of “s*it talkers, they both need each other in order to psychologically return to the glory days of their first 1993 encounter won by Jones on points.
SMART & GREEDY PAIR TO “WORK” FANS FOR PPV CASH
It’ll have to be a co-promotion between Hopkins’ “Golden Boy,” and Roy’s “Square Ring.” Hopkins (49-5-1, 32 KOs) and Jones (54-5, 40 KOs) will get together and work this PPV bout like nothing you’ve seen in years. They will talk so much crap that Jones-Hopkins or Hopkins-Jones, regardless of what it is called, their working the media and the fans will insure their PPV far exceeds industry expectations.
Pedro Fernandez