“I feel in an executioner mood, I am going to punish him and punish him slowly.”

On a scheduled fight with Joe Calzaghe, as quoted in "Hopkins issues chilling warning" (19 February 2008) http://news2.thdo.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/boxing/7253985.stm
2000s, 2008

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