Nothing builds up pre-fight hype quite like boxing press conferences. We get to see our favorite boxers talk smack and later get to find out who will back it up. Today, Victor Ortiz and Floyd Mayweather Jr. will weigh-in at their presser and face each other one last time before their big match on Saturday night in Las Vegas. In light of all the shenanigans that could go down, we've done a round up of classic bare-knuckle confrontations featuring boxing's greats like Iron Mike, Muhammad Ali, Bernard Hopkins, and many more. So, as you prepare to hear Mayweather run his mouth a bit more and possibly see Ortiz swing on him (we hope!), check out the 10 Craziest Press Conference Fights In Boxing History...
Nothing builds up pre-fight hype quite like boxing press conferences. We get to see our favorite boxers talk smack and later get to find out who will back it up. Today, Victor Ortiz and Floyd Mayweather Jr. will weigh-in at their presser and face each other one last time before their big match on Saturday night in Las Vegas. In light of all the shenanigans that could go down, we've done a round up of classic bare-knuckle confrontations featuring boxing's greats like Iron Mike, Muhammad Ali, Bernard Hopkins, and many more. So, as you prepare to hear Mayweather run his mouth a bit more and possibly see Ortiz swing on him (we hope!), check out the 10 Craziest Press Conference Fights In Boxing History...
10. Bernard Hopkins v. Winky Wright
DATE: 7/24/2007
Leave it to B-Hop to instigate some shit. No one can confirm what he was saying to Team Winky while he approached the scale, but we bet it wasn't nice. As soon as Winky got too close he was mushed. SMH, guys strip down to their underwear and suddenly can't keep their hands off one another (II). Hopkins would go on to win the bout by unanimous decision.