Murat: I’m going to end Bernard’s career; he’s old

[East Side Boxing]

#2 IBF contender Karo Murat (25-1-1, 15 KO’s) isn’t beating around the bushes for what he plans on doing against the soon to be 49-year-old Bernard “The Alien” Hopkins (53-6-2, 32 KO’s) in their fight this Saturday night at the Boardwalk Hall, in Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA. Hopkins will be making the first defense of his IBF light heavyweight title. Murat wants to send Hopkins into a retirement that he won’t come back from. Murat feels that Hopkins time has passed and he’s going to be the one that puts him out of his misery. Murat said this about his fight with Hopkins via Fightnews “I am here to end Bernard’s career. He is an old man and needs to stop now.” Murat is a big underdog in this fight. So if he does pull off an upset, he’ll really shake up a lot of people because Murat is seen as little more than just the latest sacrificial lamb for Hopkins to slaughter. There’s nothing in Murat’s past that suggests that he’ll be the one that sends Hopkins to the old folk’s home, but it’s possible. Hopkins is about to turn 49 in January, and when you get that […]http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eastsideboxing/egEo?d=yIl2AUoC8zA http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eastsideboxing/egEo?i=rA8W993e3Zo:v0yL4ROwgyw:D7DqB2pKExk http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eastsideboxing/egEo?d=qj6IDK7rITs

 

 

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