You’ll have to wait a decade to complain about his ball-stopping tendencies, but you know Phil will still be around to do it.

Bernard Hopkins, a man I both like and admire, generally, if selectively, tells the truth. But he has some cinematic set pieces, one of which involves a story of being taken aside at the time of his release from Graterford Prison and told by the warden, “I’ll see you back here in six months.”

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