Bernard Hopkins made an appearance on the new Jim Rome Showtime television show. Rome interviews Hopkins about the return of boxing to network television this weekend, and the fact that Hopkins himself was in the last CBS-televised boxing card, two decades ago. Take a look at the video interview with Rome and Hopkins right here.
Boxing great Bernard Hopkins talks about the importance of the sport returning to CBS during an interview with Jim Rome. Don’t miss SHOWTIME Boxing on CBS Saturday, December 15th, headlined by Amir Khan vs. Carlos Molina. The earlier card on CBS begins at 4:30 pm, and is headlined by Leo Santa Cruz and the pro debut of Olympian Joseph Diaz.
Jim Rome has always been a supporter of boxing and brings up the big fights on his various shows and outlets. So, now that he’s on Showtime, it should provide even more chances like this to give the support and in particular, the fights on the Showtime family of networks, some more exposure. And of course, Hopkins is always a can’t miss interview with interesting things to say for himself. He is returning to action on his own sometime in the first few months of 2013 as well.