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Hopkins twin blow
HOW the mighty, in this case world middleweight
champion Bernard Hopkins have fallen.
Crowned undisputed champion 14 months ago,
Hopkins has since boxed just once, beating Carl
Daniels in an unexciting scrap in February.
Then the veteran from Philadelphia turned down
multi-million dollar offers to box Roy Jones and Joe
Calzaghe.
Instead, he fights Morrade Hakkar of France in
January for just over a million dollars, but the fight is
of so little interest in America neither HBO nor
Showtime will televise it.
Then last Tuesday in New York, Hopkins suffered
defeat in court by former adviser Lou Di Bella, who
sued the boxer for defamation.
The court judgement was to award DiBella
$610,000 compensation, ruling Hopkins had lied
when he told the press Lou, while in charge of boxing
on HBO, had demanded a bribe of $50,000 in
exchange for televising one of his fights.
That's a huge blow for any boxer who has sweated
his way to the top, but especially so for Hopkins, who
particularly likes the colour of money.

HAYE ON THE BEEB
DAVID HAYE, the bright and talented former amateur star
who recently signed professional forms with Eugene
Maloney, has inked a 10-fight deal with the BBC.
Big-hitter Haye said this week: "I've given the decision to
turn pro a lot of consideration and know now is the right
time."
Haye, 21, had been expected to remain amateur until after
the next Olympics in 2004.
With plenty of time to develop, Haye, a World Amateur
Championships silver medallist at heavyweight last year, will
start as a cruiserweight.
Like Evander Holyfield, David wants to succeed in the
lighter division before filling out into a heavyweight.
He may make his debut before the year is out. His first six
fights will feature on BBC bills promoted by Jess Harding or
Mick Hennessy.
And unlike his friend Audley Harrison, Haye is to start on
undercards and progress along the traditional route, which is
a wise move.

Audley can shut up Danny!
• IT'S easy to understand why AUDLEY HARRISON is boxing SHAWN ROBINSON when he
makes his US debut as a pro - and first paid undercard appearance - in a six-rounder
on the Ward-Gatti II bill tomorrow.
The 31-year-old from Strafford in Missouri boxed Danny Williams last December in the British
and Commonwealth heavyweight champion's 24th paid fight, so it looks good for Audley that
he is meeting Robinson in only his eighth pro outing (all wins, of course).
• Says his boxing advisor Colin McMillan: "We're matching Audley against a guy with a
respectable record of 15 wins and four losses, 13 of the wins KOs."
However, Robinson has lost his last three. After Williams stopped him in two rounds,
unbeaten Dane Steffen Nielsen did the same in April and then, last month, former Swedish
amateur star Aldo Colliander outscored him over four. (The last two fights were in Denmark).
• Also against Shawn is his size: while southpaw Harrison scales around 18st, in his last
three fights Robinson has weighed 15st 5lbs, 15st 12 3/4lbs and 14st 9lbs. Although he
did shock Denmark's unbeaten Simon Welms Nielsen with a third-round stoppage in February
2001, two fights before that he had been stopped in one by prospect Eric Kirkland.
Moral: the class men take him out.
• Shawn is known to be game but crude and wild, so the former Olympic champ can pick
him off with his southpaw skills and join Williams - who has been one of Audley's biggest
critics - by stopping the American. That will probably come around the fourth or fifth.

Stowe show, Scott target
• STOWE ABC staged an 11-bout (eight junior, three senior) show at the Cafe
Royal in London's Piccadilly on November 12.
RESULTS: Junior: McGuinness (Stowe) stpd Spice (Earlsfield) 1st; Shinkwin
(Bushey) outpd Golding (Danson) unan; Maher (Hollington) bt Corcoran (Stowe) rtd
3rd; McDonagh (Hollington) outpd Giorgio (Bushey); Corcoran (Stowe) outpd
Burrowes (Bushey) maj; Painting (Danson) outpd O'Donnell (Dale Youth); Khan
(Earlsfield) outpd McDonagh (Stowe) maj; McDonagh (Hollington) outpd Clark
(Broad Street) unan; Carty (Earlsfield) outpd Lothian (Trojan).
Senior: Stables (Earlsfield) outpd McCullum (Broad Street) unan; Corcoran
(Stowe) outpd Leiash (Dale Youth) unan.