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yeah, thanks 4 the video link.
Watched that during me lunch break.... cant wait !

Can i Make a suggestion to any of the moderators , ..
the idea is a "Sticky" dedicated to youtube boxing clips ?
It's got to be the biggest boxing library for all of us ! .. I'd gladly like to share finds with everybody , and to discover other people's "finds" too !

Anyway , I watched a good one yesterday , on the legend of Bernard Hopkins, which deals with his lifestory , especially his life and survival in prison, and his rise to boxing glory.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BIx-__4yAs

here , read this extract from an old interview with Bernard.......discuss's his 5 yr stretch....

" I would say, the first year was rough.
To gain respect, I had to go in D block, and find the toughest guy and find out through others who is running the show here. Why? Because you didn't want to become a soldier because most people want to be a follower, like society. There's more followers, than leaders, that's human nature. Nobody wants to stick their neck out and be sacrificed if it don't happen, if it don't work, but I always did. I did it in my career. Watch my career. I took the industry by the horns, and said I'm going to do it my way, stop me and (INAUDIBLE). I took that same mentality (INAUDIBLE), and relate it to my life (INAUDIBLE). And also, as a civilian. I found the toughest guy and he wasn't my size either. He was a big guy, like Tarver, maybe a little bigger. And he had more time than five years that I had, and I had to see him. That's where my integrity came from. And the next thing you know, I had all of this people, his flunkies, his cronies, they became my backing. Who is the crazy guy at 17 coming in there and do what he did, I want to be with him. Well that's where people are followers.

But then, I became not a negative force in prison, I box in prison they had a gym. I got (INAUDIBLE) back. They had boxing tournaments. We took on other penitentiaries. I got seniority in the gym, amongst the warden, amongst the prison guard. I became the James Scott (ph) of railways (ph) back in the '80s, and in this era, I won all of the middleweight championships in the Pennsylvania. I had lifers, guys that had serious crimes who wouldn't get in the ring with Bernard Hopkins. I gained respect. And I had the power to do negative things to people, that others did. I stopped people from getting raped. I stopped people from getting extorted. I stopped people from getting taken advantage. I mean he's a young guy. I mean leave that guy alone, man. No he owe me some money, he owe me some cigarettes. Come on now, that's part of the game. You make up a lie, saying a guy owe you something to justify why nobody else is sending him to you because you don't know if he did or didn't, but I know your reputation right. We've been on the block for eight – you've been on the block for eight years, I've been for three, leave him alone. All right, man, if it wasn't for you…"

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