Is It Possible - Pavlik Six When Hopkins 1st Fought!  Bernard
HopkinsBy Paul Strauss: As the popular TV (or movie?) character
uttered, "Get-out-ta-here"! Or, "Say it ain't so"! That's got to
be a misprint, right? How can these two be in the same ring?
Well, it's true. The Executioner's first fight was 10-11-1988,
when Kelly was in short pants learning his ABC's, and getting
beat on by his two older brothers.  Hopkins, on the other hand,
was just coming out of prison after serving almost five years of
an eighteen year sentence (Wikipedia). His beat down came in an
entirely different, and much less friendly fashion than Kelly's,
but as with others who had been incarcerated, it touched off a
desire to get ahead by entering a sport that allowed for legal
exercise of violence learned over the years. Might as well get
paid for it, right?  Yet to become the Executioner, Hopkins lost
a MD as a light heavyweight to Clinton Mitchell that night, but
it would be quite some time before he would lose again, and he's
never