“Let him leave his home town and try to invade the United States and beat Bernard Hopkins, a great champion, a legend.”

On Joe Calzaghe, as quoted in "Hopkins turns up heat on Calzaghe"at BBC News (14 November 2007) http://news2.thdo.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/boxing/7084427.stm
2000s, 2007

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