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And the pair almost came to blows at the MGM Grand ahead of Ricky Hatton and Floyd Mayweather's weigh-in.
" I would never let a white boy beat me," Hopkins said five times.
"You can print that. I would never lose to a white person. He said on record that he's going to take the fight and that's all you need to hear."
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At the post-fight news conference, Hopkins, still maintaining he had won the fight as he exited stage left, had to suffer Calzaghe barking behind him: “You lost to a white man, man! You lost to a white man…” What goes around very often comes around in the brutal world of boxing.