..has trained Smith with the Capobianco brothers but was having circulation issues in his legs so he didn't trek to LA. “A few more weeks and I would have been there. But we win this absolutely,” Gallagher told me. “Hopkins is a disrespectful guy, no humility. Internally, inside, he's a bad guy. Joe has seen hard times and is humble. I think he's turned the corner and knows how important this is for his family. Maybe losing can bring humility to Hopkins. But I think he's a guttersnipe.”
Gallagher handled Ecuadorian Segundo Mercado, who fought B Hop twice, drawing in the first one (1994)…
…and losing by TKO in the second one (1995).
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=t04TtTDaX_k
Yeah, his fingers will be crossed hard enough tonight watching on HBO to affect that circulation too. No love lost and hell, no love found in Hopkins from Gallagher.
Editor/publisher Michael Woods got addicted to boxing in 1990, when Buster Douglas shocked the world with his demolition of the thought to be impregnable Mike Tyson. The Brooklyn-based journalist Woods has covered the sport since then, for ESPN The Magazine, ESPN.com, ESPN New York, RING, and he was editor of TheSweetScience.com from 2007-2015. Woods is also an accomplished blow by blow and color man, having done work for Top Rank, DiBella Entertainment, EPIX, and for Facebook Fightnight Live since 2017. He now does work for PROBOX TV, the first truly global boxing network.
