Bernard Hopkins, known as the Executioner was born January 15, 1965, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Bernard Hopkins is an American boxer. Bernard Hopkins is known for his ten year reign as middleweight world champion in which he successfully defended his title a record 20 times. Bernard Hopkins is the first fighter to retain all 4 major boxing governing body belts including the Ring Magazine belt in the same fight. In addition to being an active boxer, Bernard Hopkins is also a minority partner with Golden Boy Promotions.
Bernard Hopkins immediately joined the professional boxing ranks as a light heavyweight, losing his debut on October 11, 1988, in Atlantic City, New Jersey to Clinton Mitchell. After a sixteen-month layoff, he resumed his career as a middleweight, winning a unanimous decision over Greg Paige at the Blue Horizon on February 22, 1990.
Between February 1990 and September 1992, Bernard Hopkins scored 20 wins without a loss. He won 15 of those fights by knockout, 11 coming in the first round.
Bernard Hopkins has secured a fight with Jean Pascal for the WBC, IBO and The Ring Magazine' Light Heavyweight Championship on December 18, 2010, in Canada which will be televised on Showtime as a non-PPV bout.
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