"I will not disclose anything now. It's 50/50 what I'm going to do, but I've done more than anybody expected me to do in my whole career. I'm fine. I represented boxing well and represented Philadelphia well. But I'ma think about it and right now, everything is 50/50 and it's been like that for the last 9 years when I turned 40. It's like everything is 50/50," stated future Hall of Famer Bernard Hopkins during the post-fight commented immediately after his disappointing loss to unified WBA, IBF, & WBO light heavyweight champion Sergey Kovalev. Although the 49-year-old took more punishment in the last round of this fight than he ever has in the past, he insists that it was more because he wanted to give the fans a good show.
"Listen, the fans want to see fights. They don't want to see a guy running...I wanted to go ahead and try to the last bit to try and get a shot in and maybe I could change things around. But I wanted to go ahead and engage because he was engaging, and that's what the fans want to see," Hopkins explained. "They might root for the guy that lost, but they want to see a fight, and that's what they pay they money for and that's what I tried to give the fans, a fight."
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