Bernard Hopkins Fined

It has been reported that Bernard “The Executioner” Hopkins has been fined $200,000 for his pre-fight brawl against Winky Wright. According to the head of the State Athletic Commission that Nevada doesn’t allow for melees at the weigh-in, and that fighting should only occur in the ring. Uhhhhh……dude, did you see the actual fight? That was the biggest piece of garbage I’ve ever seen. You should be thanking him for that melee, not fining him. If it weren’t for that melee, there would have been fewer people that were ripped off of their $50.00.

In other boxing news: Felix Trinidad will come out of retirement to face Roy Jones Jr. in January. Just a hunch, but I think these guys are washed up.

ESPN Points Out Another Useless Statistic on MNF

Seriously ESPN, please stop with the irrelevant stats. Tough as it may be, the millions that watch MNF aren’t stat geeks. Last night, as I painfully watched the NFL preseason, the Dolphins had an 11-10 lead over the Chiefs, in which they went for a 2 point conversion (you didn’t think there would be OT preseason football did ya?) , Mike Tirico pointed out that never ever ever had an NFL game finished 11-10. That caused for reason to talk about it for the final 5 minutes of the broadcast. Had Clark Gable from Gone With the Wind heard that stat, I think he’d say, “Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn.”. He’s right, who cares? That is why MNF is so impossible to watch, you have 3 people yakking in the booth, 2 sideline reporters that add a whopping 0% to the game, and celebrity interviews.

That being said, it improved a whole lot by getting rid of Joe Theismann.